TEMPLE, Richard Carnac

TEMPLE, Richard Carnac. Allahabad 15.10.1850 — Territet, Switzerland 3.3.1931. Sir (2nd Bart.). British Colonial Officer in India and Burma, Indologist, Ethnologist and Historian. Son of Sir Richard T. (1826–1902), a well known and original Civil Servant in India, and Charlotte Martindale (d. 1855). Educated at Harrow and from 1868 at…

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LEECH, Robert

LEECH, Robert. 7.12.1813 — Ambala 2.9.1845. British Colonial Officer in India. Engineer Major, Bombay Engineers, in 1836, still as Lieutenant, Assistant of Burnes, served in Afghanistan until 1842. Then Assistant Agent in Ambala. Unmarried. Publications: “Epitome of the Grammar of the Brahuiky, the Balochky, and the Panjabi languages”, JASB 7, 1838,…

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JUKES, Andrew

JUKES, Andrew. Dunnville, Moulton, Haldimand, Canada West (Ontario) 1847 — 28.4.1931. British (Canadian) Medical Missionary in India. Educated at Blundell’s Son of Mark Richard Jukes (1817–1854, born in India!) and Harriet Maria Hole (1817–1854). The parents were British, married 1841 in England, but in 1842 already in Canada. They died…

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HARES, Walter Pullin

HARES, Walter Pullin. Alcester, Warwickshire 12.4.1877 — 21.1.1962. British Missionary in India. Son of George Daniel H. and Harriet Emma Pullin. Educated at King’s Lynn and Durham University (B.A.). In 1906-11 missionary in charge in Narowal, 1912-13 Principal and Warden of St. John’s Divinity School in Lahore, 1913-16 again in…

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GLASENAPP, Helmuth von

GLASENAPP, Otto Max Helmuth von. Berlin 8.9.1891 — Tübingen 25.6. 1963. German Indologist. Professor in Königsberg and Tübingen. Son of —> Otto von Gl. and Elisabeth (Lilli) Marie Jähns. Educated in Berlin, as a schoolboy already much interested in India and Sanskrit. After one term of law studies at Tübingen…

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DIMES, Eileen M.

DIMES, Eileen M. Miss. 19?? — ????. British Librarian. Graduated in English 1932 Uni­versity of London and in Sanskrit 1958 ibid. From 1945 worked in the library of S.O.A.S., from 1950 as Assistant in Indian Section. In 1959 succeeded A. Master as Assistant Keeper for Modern Indian languages in India…

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CUMMINGS, Thomas F.

CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. New Wilmington, PA 3.9.1863 — 6.2.1942. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Puñjab. After Westminster College studies at Union Theological Seminary 1886-87 and at Allegheny Th. Sem. 1887-89. Ordained priest 1889 and soon left to India. Worked in Sialkot (1889-94) and Gujranwala (1894-1905). In 1905-07 taught at Theological…

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CAREY, William

CAREY, William. Paulerspury, Northamptonshire 17.8.1761 — Serampur 9.6.1834. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology, in India 1794–1834. Son of Edmund C., a village schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Wells, became in the age of 14 apprentice to a shoemaker in Hackleton. He was interested in religion and joined the Baptists in 1783.…

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BEAMES, John

BEAMES, John William. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a Pioneer of Comparative NIA Studies. Served in India in 1858-93. Son of the Rev. Thomas B., educated first at Merchant Taylor’s School, then 1856-57 at Haileybury. In 1858 to India, served from March…

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BAILEY, Thomas Grahame

BAILEY, Thomas Grahame. Ambala 8.9.1872 — Edinburgh 5.4.1942. Rev. British (Scottish) Priest and Indologist, a Specialist of Urdu and North-West Indian Languages. Son of Wellesley Cosby B., a medical missionary, and Alice Hargraves, sent to school in Edinburgh. M.A. and B.D., ordained. In 1895-1920 missionary of the Church of Scotland…

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