KNOX, George

KNOX, George. Inismagrath, co. Leitrim, Ireland 15.12.1793 — Coimbatore 2.9.1847, when 53. British (Irish) Physician in India. M.D. 1816. From 1817 in E.I.C.’s medical service, Madras, Surgeon 1829, Superintending Surgeon 1843. Participated in Burmese was 1824-25. Married Mary Griffith (1809–1841), one son. Publications: Wrote on Burmese Buddhism in MJLS 1, 1834, 25-39 and in TrRAS 3,…

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KIPLING, John Lockwood

KIPLING, John Lockwood. Kirbymoorside near Pickering, Yorkshire 6.7.1837 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 26.1.1911. British Art Teacher, Illustrator and Museum Curator in India. Son of Rev. Joseph Kipling, a Methodist minister, and Frances Lockwood. Educated at Wesleyan Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford, then learned ceramic art. From 1859 worked on exterior terracotta…

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KING, Cuthbert

KING, Cuthbert. Madingley, Cambridgeshire 1889 — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Dr. Edward George King and Mary Westcott. Educated at Sherborne school. M.A. Served in the North-West. Deputy Commissioner (1930/35), then Commissioner of Lahore (1943) and Rawalpindi Division (1946). C.I.E. 1946. Mentioned as living 1958. Married…

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KINCAID, William

KINCAID, William. 30.10.1831 — Bournemouth 11.2.1909. British Colonial Officer in India. From 1849 Ensign in Madras Army. Appointed to adjust boundary disputes in Bhopal agency, 1864. From 1866 Assistant Political Agent in Bundelkhand, 1876 Political Agent in Bhopal and 1879 in Bhopawar, now also commandant of Malwa Bhil Corps. From…

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KINCAID, Dennis

KINCAID, Dennis Charles Alexander. 16.10.1905 — 10.6.1937. British Civil Servant in India. Son of —> Ch. A. Kincaid (1870–1954) and Katherine Mary Seddon. From 1924-27 studied at Oxford (Balliol College), then joined I.C.S. Arrived at Bombay in 1928. Drowned. Publications: Shivaji: The Grand Rebel. 346 p. 1937. – British social life in India,…

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KENNEDY, James (father)

KENNEDY, James. 1815 — 1899. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. M.A. In 1839-77 worked for London Missionary Society in Benares and from 1867 Kumaon. Then minister of Portobello in Scotland. Married 1840 Margaret Stephen Walker (1814–1891, known as one of the first zenana missionaries), at least six children, i.al.…

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KEBLE, William Thomas

KEBLE, William Thomas. Dunstall, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire 4.8.1901 — Victoria, British Columbia 19.10.1965. British Teacher in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Thomas Charles Keble (1864–1932) and Hilda Mary Jeffcock. Studies at Oxford, B.A. and M.A. In 1923 to Ceylon, worked as teacher. In 1942 founded an up-country school (St.Thomas…

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KEARNS, James Fleming

KEARNS, James Fleming. Ireland 1825 — Tanjore 1877. Rev. British Missionary in India. In 1849 to India as lay missionary, ordained priest 1856. Worked 1856-73 for the Society for Propagation of the Gospel at Puthiamputhur, Tinnevelly, then in charge of Tanjore mission. Publications: Tribes of South India; a sketch of their…

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JOYCE, Thomas Athol

JOYCE, Thomas Athol. London 4.8.1878 — Wroxham, Norfolk 3.1.1942. British Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of Thomas Heath Joyce (1860–1925), a newspaper editor, and Ellen Margaretha Murphy. Educated at Dulwich College. Studies at Oxford (Hertford College, M.A. 1902), then worked from 1902 in British Museum. In WW I in intelligence service…

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JOPSON, N. B.

JOPSON, Norman Brooke. Leeds 20.1.1890 — Cambridge 13.1.1969. British Comparative Linguist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Samuel Rolison Jopson. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School, Crosby, from 1909 studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, B.A. 1912), mainly French and German, but also Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. Further studies of Slavic and IE in…

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