FRANCIS, Henry Thomas. West Raynham, Norfolk 22.10.1837 — 28.6.1924. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Son of William Francis. Education: schools at Walsingham & Ipswitch; from 1856 studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1860, M.A. 1863), 1861-73 Fellow of Caius College. Assistant schoolmaster in Kensington 1864-65, Bromsgrove 1865-73 and at Bedford Grammar School 1874-77.…
GILBERTSON, George Waters. 1860 — 23.6.1941. British Colonial Officer in India. Apparently served in north-western border regions. Retired as Major and settled in Surrey. Married Ada Price, five children. Publications: Edited: The Assembly of Mirth. A Literal Translation into English of the Sabhá Bilása, one of the Degree of Honour Hindi…
GAWROŃSKI, Andrzej. Geneva 20.6.1885 — Jósefów near Warsaw 11.1.1927. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów. Son of the historian Franciszek Rawita-G. (1845–1930) and —> Antonina Gawrońska, born in Switzerland during his parents’ exile, they returned in 1887. Educated in Warsaw and Lwów (now L’viv in Ukraina), in 1903-05 studies at Lwów…
GĄSIOR, Pawel. 19?? — 199?. Polish Indologist (Hindī). At Poznań University. Died young. Publications: ???. Sources: Briefly mentioned by Jankowski 2003.
GARTHWAITE, James Grant Liston. 1833 — Glenelg, South Australia 21.12.1918. British Missionary and Teacher in India. Trained as teacher at Westminster College,London (B.A.). Worked for Basel Mission in Kerala, arrived at Bangalore 1853. From 1857 director of various schools in India. From 1868 Inspector of schools in Malabar and Canara.…
GANANDER, Christfried. Haapajärvi (Ostrobothnia) 21.11.1741 — Rantsila (Ostrobothnia) 17.2.1790. Finnish Clergyman, Folklorist and Lexicographer. Son of Rev. Thomas G. (d. 1751) and Helena Hidén. Studies at Turku (magister 1766). Ordained priest 1763. Worked as curate in Vaasa and Laihia. From 1775 until death vicar of Rantsila in Ostrobothnia. Married 1767…
GALLOIS-MONTBRUN, Joseph Armand. Monaco 19.3.1793 — Nice 21.12.1875. French Colonial Officer. Son of Pierre Alexandre G.-M. and Jeanne de Montalembert. Served in Martinique (1833), Pondichéry, and Réunion. Légion d’honneur 1856. Finally archivist of Alpes-Maritimes. Married Bathilde Laforest (d.?), Chantal Montbrun (d. 1844) and 1846 Gabrielle Parizet, two sons (with first…
GALLETTI DI CADILHAC, Arthur Mario Agricola Collier. London 25.3.1877 — 23.2.1967. British (with Italian background) Civil Servant in India. Son of Count Arturo G. di C. and Margaret Isabella Collier. Educated at Cheltenham College, studies at Oxford (Trinity College). Joined I.C.S. in 1900. Worked 30 years in Madras Presidency. Retired 1934. Married 1906…
FURRELL, James Wyburd. Grovesend, Kent 9.9.1836 — Steyning, Sussex 5.10.1905. British Civil Servant in India. Son of James F. and Ann Wyburd. Studies at Cambridge (Emmanuel College). Served in North India. No further details about him are found. Publications: The Tagore Family; A Memoir. 182 p. L. 1882, 2nd ed.…
FUCHS, Stephen. Bruck an der Mur 30.4.1908 — St.Gabriel, Mödling 17.1.2000. S.V.D. Austrian Missionary and Anthropologist in India. Grew up in Graz, in 1922-27 student at S.V.D.’s mission high school in St. Rupert’s in Bischofshofen. Joined the Society of Divine Word in 1927 and studied theology at St.Augustine near Bonn…