LEWIN, Thomas Herbert. Lewisham, London 1.4.1839 — Abinger, Surrey 11.2.1916. British Colonial Officer in India, Linguist and Ethnologist. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of George Herbert Lewin (1808–1856), a law clerk, and Mary Friend (1811–1890). Educated at Littlehampton, Eltham and Addiscombe. In 1857 came to India and immediately had to participate in campaigns…
LELAND, Charles Godfrey. Philadelphia, PA 15.8.1824 — Florence 20.3.1903. U.S. Journalist and Amateur Folklorist. Son of merchant Charles Leland and Charlotte Godfrey. Studies at Princeton College, then at universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Paris (he was there during the 1848 revolution). Back home passed in the bar, but never practised…
LEEPER, Frederick James. Dublin 1831 — Vernham Dean, Wiltshire 16.1.1906. Rev. British (Irish?) Missionary in South India. Went to India in 1856, trained in Madras, ordained deacon 1857, priest 1860. Worked in Tinnevelly, Secunderabad, Kumbakonam, Tranquebar and Cuddalore. Retired in 1881, from 1887 curate of Vernham Dean. Married 1857 Mary…
LECKEY, Edward. 1811 — West Derby, Lancashire 1870. Britishman, apparently in Bombay, where he served as clerk in Military Board Office in 1857. Married 1845 in Bombay Mary Smith (or 1850 Mary Derby?). Unlike the most writers of the time, he took in his 1859 book critical view of the…
LEACH, Abigail. Brockton, MA 28.5.1855 — Poughkeepsie, co. Dutchess, NY 29.12.1918. U.S. Greek Scholar and Pioneer of Female Education. Born as the daughter of the shoe manufacturer Marcus Leach (1810–1910) and Eliza Paris Bourne. Through her insistent demands to Harvard professors the Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College) was…
LASERON, Nathan Edward (originally Nathan Ferdinand Laseron). Königsberg 15.8.1815 — Ootacamund 5.12.1868. Rev. German Missionary in Kerala. From East Prussia, born in a Jewish family, son of Wulf Saul L. (1784–1829) and Henrietta Simeon (d. 1829). Moved to Edinburgh. Connected with Church of Scotland he worked in Cochin preaching to local…
LAMBRICK, Samuel. 1768 — 1854. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. In 1817 left for Ceylon with his wife in company of Joseph Knight, Robert Major and Benjamin Ward. After a time in Kandy in 1822 founded Kotta as the centre of the Church Missionary Society near Colombo and opened…
LAMBERT, Hester Marjorie. St.Margaret’s, Middlesex 5.11.1895 — London 29.9.1976. British Indologist, a Phonetician. Daughter of James John Lambert and Florence Louisa Legge. M.A. In 1938-63 Senior Lecturer in Marathi at S.O.A.S., then retired. Unmarried. Publications: Textbooks of English in the 1930s. – Marathi Language Course. 14+301 p. Oxford 1943. – Jñāneśvarī. Transl. from…
LACEY, William Carey (not Charles?). 1831 — 1870. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Charles Lacey (1798–1853), also a missionary in Orissa (from 1823), and his wife Ann Merriman. Himself resided in Cuttack at least from 1851. Directed the Orissa Mission Press founded by his father together with Amos…
LA FUENTE, Marguerite. 18?? — 1958?. Mme. French Bauddha. Founding-member of Les amis de bouddhisme in Paris from 1927. Visited Ceylon and other Buddhist countries and learned much from bhikkhus. In 1960 Lu K’uan Yu dedicated his Ch’an and Zen Teaching to the memory of Upāsikā MLF who had encouraged him…