MITCHELL, John Murray. Garvock near Aberdeen 19.8.1815 — Leith, Edinburgh 14.11.1904. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Rev. James Mitchell and Margaret Gordon. Educated in Kinneff (Kincardineshire) and Aberdeen, studied in Aberdeen, M.A. 1833 (Marischal College). Further studies of theology at Aberdeen and 1837-38 at Edinburgh. Ordained in…
MACPHAIL, James Merry. Shaflesbury, Dorset 1863 — Tisri, Bihar 15.6.1929. British (Scottish) Missionary Physician. Son of Dugald Macphail and Janet Merry. Studies at Glasgow, M.A. 1885, M.D. 1895. A physician of the Santal Mission of the Free Church of Scotland.He was a specialist of eye surgeryand in 1890 founded Bamdah…
HEUMAN, Ernst Otto August. Halmstad 9.7.1858 — Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) 25.8.1926. Swedish Missionary and Scholar of Religion and Languages in India. Son of alderman Anders Gustaf Heuman (1816–1867) and Christina Margareta Theolander. From 1877 studies of classical philology and Semitics at Uppsala, fil.kand. 1880, fil.lic. 1886. After a few years as…
GREAVES, Edwin. London 5.12.1854 — Melvern 18.9.1941. British Missionary in India. Educated in Islington and Western College. Served London Missionary Society in N.W.P. Principal of the society’s college in Benares, then of Missionary Language School in Lucknow, from 1882 at the new station in Kachwa, Mirzapur, finally in Calcutta. Retired…
CAMPBELL, Andrew. Boltan, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission of Free Church of Scotland, from 1872, first at Giridh in Hazaribagh dt., from 1879 at Pokharia in Manbhoom. Also an Honorary Magistrate, and Member of the…
BOXWELL, John. Butlerstown, co. Wexford 31.5.1838 — Dacca (Dhaka) 15.5.1891. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Boxwell and Martha Carey. Educated in Armagh, studies at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1888 in Bengal Civil Service, some time Collector of Gaya. In the 1870s Deputy Commissioner in Santal Parganas,…
BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason Bompas (barrister, d. 1909) and Rachel Henrietta Wise (d. 1923). Educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. Joined I.C.S. in 1887, arrived in India 1889. Served as Assistant Magistrate and Collector in…
BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik, Oppland 2.11.1865 — Odense, Denmark 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among the Santals. Son of a bookseller, Edvard Olsen Bodding, and Betzy Emilie Wennevold. After meeting —> L. O. Skrefsrud in his father’s shop he decided to become a…