CALLAWAY, John. 1793? — 23.11.1846, when 48. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Arrived in 1815 and worked there about ten years (1816 in Matara, 1817 and 1821-24 Principal of Galle School). In 1826 retired to England, apparently lived in London. Publications: A Vocabulary, with Useful Phrases and Familiar…
CÄMMERER, August Friedrich. Wusterhausen, Brandenburg 22.6.1767 — Trankebar 22.10.1837. German Missionary in India. Son of Christian Gottlieb Cämmerer. School and studies at Halle. After brief time as teacher ordained in Copenhagen in 1789. In India from 1791 until death (with a pause in 1821-23). The last of the Halle missionaries…
BUTLIN, Raymond Thomas. Fishley, Middlesex 6.2.1907 — Knysma, Western Cape, South Africa 15.11.1990. British Phonetician. Son of Arthur Butlin and Mabel Griffin. Taught at S.O.A.S. From 1939 Sub-Director of Institute of English Studies in Athens. In the 1950s he was the head of British Council in Finland and died in South…
BRANDI, Mario. Trieste 11.12.1891 — 1943/44?. Italian Theosophist. Son of Salvatore Brandi and Elisa Iacchia. He authored several mystic books, two in collaboration with Emma Tedeschi (1896–1943/44?). In November 1943 both were arrested in Nervi (Genoa) as Jews and sent to Auschwitz. Publications: Lo Yoga della fede: Bhagavadgītā 12.: testo…
BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845 — Palamcotta, Madras 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South India. Son of Rev. Edward Fitzmaurice Boyle of Hammersmith. Educated at Radley College (Oxfordshire), until 1858. From 1865 in Madras Civil Service. Publications: “Telugu Ballad Poetry”, IA 3, 1874, 1-6; “Notes on castes in Southern India”, Ibid.…
BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire 1811 — 1899. British Teacher of Hindustani. Son of Charles Bowles and Mary Shakespear, nephew and heir of —> John Shakespear (1774–1858). Served many years as his uncle’s assistant and succeeded him as the Professor of Hindustani at Addiscombe. After Shakespear’s death in…
BOUCHET, Jean Venant. Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) 12.4.1655 — 1732. Father. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. Jesuit novice 1670. First briefly in Thailand, where he arrived with the French embassy in 1688. When the Jesuits were forced to leave in 1688 he entered Madurai mission. Following Roberto de Nobili’s methods…
BORROW, George Henry. East Dereham, Norfolk 5.7.1803 — Lowestoft, Suffolk 26.7.1881. British Author. Son of Thomas Borrow (1758–1824), an army recruiting officer, and Ann Perfrement. Educated in Edinburgh and Norwich, for a while also briefly in Ireland, then studied law, but soon turned to languages and literature. In 1825 first…
BOMFORD, Trevor. Bembridge, Isle of Wight 18.11.1849 — India 21.12.1929. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Bomford and Frances Jane Winter. Studies at Cambridge (Corpus Christi College) and Durham University (M.A.). Ordained 1874. Worked for Church Missionary Society in Multan and Peshawar. Married 1883 Jane Catherine Charlotte Briggs (1863–1951),…
BLIN, Amédée. 1799? — 18??. French Colonial Officer. Still in Paris, he had some months attended the Hindustani classes of Garcin de Tassy. From 1823 (if not earlier) served in Pondichéry (1831 mentioned as Lieutenant of the Cypahi Battalion). His dictionary is “dédié à Mr. le Ministre de la Marine”.…