BUCKLAND, Charles Edward. Chittagong 19.9.1847 — Kensington, London 1.10.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of of Charles Thomas Buckland (1824–1894) of I.C.S. and Mary Ann Letitia Ricketts. Educated at Laleham and Eton College, studies rom 1866 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1866). Joined I.C.S. in 1870. Called to the…
BOYCE, Nora Elizabeth Mary. Darjeeling, India 2.8.1920 — London 4.4.2006. British (with Irish background) Iranian Scholar. Professor in London. Daughter of William H. Boyce, judge at Calcutta High Court, and Nora Gardiner. Family returned soon to the U.K. Educated at Wimbledon High School and Cheltenham Ladies College, then studies from 1940…
BOULTON, John Victor. 1934 — 2006. British Indologist (NIA). Ph.D. 1967 S.O.A.S. From 1962 Lecturer in Bengali and Oriya at S.O.A.S., retired 1988. Publications: Diss. on Oriya. Manuscript S.O.A.S. 1967. – Phakirmohana Senapati: His life and prose-fiction. 537 p. Bhubaneshwar 1993 (rev. diss. on Oḍiyā author). – With G. Mishra:…
AUSTIN, Jack. Caerleon, Newport, Wales 16.7.1917 — 15.8.1993. British Bauddha. Reading of Edwin Arnold turned him into Buddhism. Joined A. Govinda’s Arya Maitreya Mandala, led its British branch. Living in London. Friend of Christmas Humhreys. Married 1949, four children. Publications: Translated: The Dhammapada, a New Version. L. 1945, 6th ed. 72…
WOODHOUSE, Edmund. Finningley, Nottingham 1841 — Tanga, German East Africa (Tanzania) 1895. This death in Jayasuriya, but ancestry.com claims Warmbaths, Transvaal, South Africa 26.5.1937. British Planter, Writer and Traveller in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Gervas Harvey Woodhouse (1802–1882) and Miriam Pigot. Probably came to Ceylon in 1865. Coffee planter…
TATE, George Passman. Bengal 22.7.1856 — Bengal 1941. British (Anglo-Indian?) Civil Servant in India. As Assistant Superintendent of the Surveyor General of India he conducted critical surveys in Afghanistan such as Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission (1895-96) and Seistan Arbitration Mission (1903-05). In 1899-1900 in similar office in Hong Kong, then again…
STEPHEN, Dorothea Jane. Simla 20.7.1871 — Andover, Hampshire 9.11.1965. British Missionary in South India. Cousin to Virginia Woolf; daughter of a lawyer, Bart. James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894), and Mary Richenda Cunningham. Born in India grew up in England. Warden of St. Andrew’s Missionary Training College in Madras. Unmarried. Publications: Studies in…
STACK, Edward. 1850 — at sea 12.1.1887. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Studied at Queen’s University, M.A. Joined I.C.S. 1872, served in North-West Provinces, also visited Iran in 1891. From 1882 the first Director of Land Records and Agriculture in Assam. Learned quickly Assamese and began studying tribal languages,…
SHERWOOD, Richard C. 17?? — 18??. British Physician in India. M.D. Surgeon in Fort St. George. Publications: “Of the Murderers Called Phánsigárs”, As. Res. 13, 1820, 250-181 (on Thugs) .Sources: Only mentioned in connection of the article.
SHARP, Ralph Norman. Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire 23.6.1896 — Chippenham, Wiltshire 11.9.1995. Rev. British Missionary and Iranian Scholar. Son of John Emilius Ernest Steigenberger Sharp (1847–1951), Keeper of the Public Records, and Mary Elizabeth Ballance. After school in Westminster studied Theology and Classics at Cambridge (Queen’s College), M.A. Worked 40 years…