DOUGLAS, James. 4.6.1826 — 3.8.1904. British (Scottish) Banker in India, interested in History. Son of William Douglas, a solicitor, “educated at Sorbie Parish School and privately in Edinburgh. Went to Karachi in 1864 as Agent of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Agent in Bombay 1865-72. Exchange and…
DOUGLAS, Gordon (Bhikkhu Asoka). 18?? — April 1900 (Payer) or 1905. British Bauddha. He was claimed to be the very first British who was ever (known to be) ordained as a Buddhist monk (Wikipedia: Laurence Carroll as U Dhammaloka is earlier, see W. on him). The ordination took place in…
DODWELL, Henry Herbert. Great Haseley, Oxfordshire 3.5.1879 — Chertsey, Surrey 13.6.1946 (or 30.10.). British Historian. Son of Herbert Dodwell (1846–1923) and Violet Sinclair Watson (1850–1890). Educated at Thame Grammar School, studies at St.John’s (Oxford), graduated 1908 and joined Indian Educational Service, retired 1922. In 1922-46 Professor of History and Culture…
DIMES, Eileen M. Miss. 19?? — ????. British Librarian. Graduated B.A. in English 1932 University of London and in Sanskrit 1958 ibid. Librarian (1941), 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…
DILLON, Emile Joseph [in French also used Émile de Dillon]. Dublin 21.3.1854 (or 1855) — Barcelona 9.6.1933. British (Irish) Linguist and Journalist. Son of Irish father, Michael Dillon, and English mother, Mary Byrne. Originally trained for priesthood, studied at Clonliffe College in Dublin, Pantasaph monastery in Wales, Seminary of St.Sulpice,…
DICKSON, John Frederick. Harmondsworth, Middlesex 17.9.1835 — Paddington, London 21.12.1891. Sir. British Civil Servant and Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Robert Dickson (1805–1875), a physician, and Mary Ann Coope (1807–1875). Educated in Westminster and studied from 1855 at Christ Church, Oxford. Graduated B.A. in 1859 and joined colonial…
DIBBEN, Cecilia J. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman, apparently interested in Pāli. Miss. Her sister is perhaps Miss A. M. Dibben, who compiled the index to the first vol. of Buddhadatta’s manuals (L., P.T.S, 1915), rev. by C. A. F. Rhys Davids. In the Niddesa edition (vol. 1. L., P.T.S. 1916) the editors…
DEWHURST, Robert Paget. Clitheroe, Lancashire 21.7.1869 — 27.12.1935. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of James Dewhurst and Frances Elizabeth Paget. Educated at Clitheroe Grammar School, studies from 1888 at Oxford (Balliol College, M.A.). In 1892 joined the I.C.S., served in North India. Back in Britain (1904?), he…
DELMERICK, James George. 1828/29 (hardly 1831) — 1915. British Civil Servant in India. In 1872 in Rawalpindi, 1874/77 Assistant Commissioner in Delhi. Married 1849 in Agra Isabella Mary Luckstedt (1831–1910), children. Publications: “Notes on Archaeological Remains at Sháhki Dherí, and the site of Taxila”, JASB 39:1, 1870, 89-94; “A History…
DELAMAINE, James. 1784? — Cape of Good Hope 1829?. British Colonial Officer. Ensign (1798), Captain (1823) and Major in Bengal Army (1827), then Lieutenant-Colonel and Political Agent at Nemaur. Served long under John Malcolm and knew Sanskrit and Persian. In 1823 he was the first European to visit Nasik Caves…