COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter, Devon 27.2.1856 — Chiswick, London 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British Police Officer in India. Son of Rev. —> George William Cox (1827–1902), the 14th Baronet and a historian, and Emily Maria Stirling. “Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Bombay,…
COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — Bournemouth (?) 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Henry William Holmes Cox (1841–1917), of Madras army, and Lucy Emma Halliday. Served in the Punjab (1917). Married 1900 Evelyn Florence Conran Smith (1875–1944), one son. Publications: Notes on Pushtu Grammar. 12+84+70 p. L.…
COWELL, Edward Byles. Ipswich 23.1.1826 — Cambridge 9.2.1903. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. In 1856-64 in India. Son of Charles Cowell (a merchant and maltster, d. 1842) and Marianne Byles. Educated in Ipswich, as a schoolboy of 15 already attracted to Sir William Jones’ Persian grammar and soon began translating…
COUSINS, James Henry Sproull. Belfast 22.7.1873 — Madanapalle 20.2.1956. Irish author (poet and dramatist), critic and teacher. Born in a Methodist family of Huguenot origin, son of deep-sea mariner James Cousins and Susan Davey, educated in Belfast. Worked as an office boy and clerk, in 1897 moved to Dublin, where…
COUSENS, Henry. Paisley, Renfrewshire 13.9.1854 — Tunbridge Wells, Kent 5.11.1934. British (Scottish) Archaeologist in India. Son of Henry Cousens (1826–1914), a photozincographer, and Margaret Fitzmaurice (1822–1872). Civil engineer, soon to India. From 1881 Assistant of Cunningham in the A.S.I., from 1886 in charge of Western India (succeeding Burgess) and in…
COULSON, Michael. 1936 — 1975. British Indologist. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London, studies at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.). D.Phil. 1966 Oxford. Then in 196?-72 Lecturer and Head of Sanskrit Department at University of Edinburgh. Paul Dundas (1952–2023) was his student. Publications: Diss. manuscript 1966, publ. as A critical edition…
CORYAT, Thomas (Tom Coriate). Odcombe (Crewkerne), Somersetshire 1577? — Surat ?.12.1617. British Traveller in India. Son of the Rev. George Coryat (d. 1607), Rector of Odcombe, and his wife Gertrude. Studies at Winchester College and from 1596 at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, learning Greek and logic, but left 1599 without degree…
COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen. Barnes, London 26.12.1845 — Wandsworth, London 19.4.1925. Most Rev. British Priest in Sri Lanka and India. Son of Rev. Reginald Edward Copleston (1811–1878), Rector at Barnes, Surrey, and Anne Elizabeth Sharpe (d. 1898). Educated at Merchant Taylor’s school, studies from 1864 at Exeter or Merton College, Oxford…
CONGREVE, Harry. 1811? — 1879?. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Cadet 1827, arrived in India 1828 and joined Madras Artillery. In Europe in sick leave 1839-43. Captain 1842, Major 1854, retired as Lieutenant Colonel. No longer in service in 1878. According to Google summary a “Were Carpenter” page (which…
COLLINS, Richard. Bicker, Lincolnshire 20.10.1828 — Kirkburton, Yorkshire 30.10.1900. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society in India and Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Richard Collins (1794–1882), later (1843) vicar of Kirkburton, and his wife Mary (d. 1896). Studies at St.John’s College, Cambridge (M.A. 1851). Ordained as deacon 1851, as…