COLLINS, Mark. Brighton 28.12.1866 — 193?. British Indologist in India. Educated at Brighton Grammar School. In 1881-86 in business, then teacher at a private school preparing himself for matriculation examination, which he passed at University of London in 1888. In 1892 B.A. there. At the same time taught at Brighton…
COLES, Stephen. Ringwood, Hampshire 1837 — Sri Lanka 13.9.1901. Rev. British Missionary, member of Church Missionary Society in Sri Lanka. Son of farmer William Coles (1807–1861) and Harriet Mist (1808–1892). After Highbury Training College arrived in Ceylon as early as 1861 and remained there until his death. Married 1860 Elizabeth…
COLEBROOKE, Thomas Edward.Calcutta 19.8.1813 — London 11.1.1890. Sir (4th Bart.). British Gentleman and Politician (liberal) interested in History. Son of —> H. T. Colebrooke (1765–1837) and Elizabeth Wilkinson (1785–1814). Educated at Eton and Haileybury. Joined E.I.C. and worked in Allahabad 1832-35, returned to comfort his father after the death of…
COLEBROOKE, Henry Thomas. London 15.6.1765 — London 10.12.(or 10.3. or 18.3. or 10.4.)1837. British Pioneer of Indology, Lawyer and Mathematician. 1782-1814 in India. Third son of Sir George Colebrooke (1729–1809), 2nd Bart., a banker and M.P. and later the chairman of the E.I.C.’s directors (in 1769), and Mary Gaynor. Uncle…
COLE, Henry Hardy. Kensington, Middlesex (London) ?.8.1843 — Oxford 23.12.1916. British Architect and Engineer Officer in India. Son of —> Henry Cole (1808–1882) and Marian Fairman Bond. Lieutenant, then Major. Before going to India he draw The Heights, the country house of his father in Surrey (completed 1861). From 1868…
COLE, Henry. Bath 15.7.1808 — London 18.4.1882. Sir. English Civil Servant, Designer and Inventor. Son of Captain Henry Robert Cole (1780?–1863) and Lætitia Dormer. Educated in London. Working in 1823-42 at the Record Commission, then at government Dept. of Science and Art. Supported by Price Albert he organized several exhibitions…
CODRINGTON, Oliver. Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.5.1837 — Brentford, Middlesex ?.3.1921 (not 1931). British Physician and Numismatist. Son of Rev. Thomas Stretton Codrington (1798–1839, Vicar of Wroughton) and Elizabeth Emily Maurice (WikiTree: Elizabeth Jemima White), uncle of —> H. W. Codrington (1879–1942). Educated at the Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough and…
CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — Appledore, Devon 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and Art Historian of India. Son of Lieutenant (then Major-General) Harry de Burgh Codrington (1866–1939) of Indian army and Helen Maud Vaughan (1870–1915), grew up in the North-West Frontier. Educated at Sherborne School and Cadet College, Wellington. Studies…
CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. Hambleden, Buckinghamshire 25.9.1879 — Kensington, London 7.11.1942. British Civil Servant and Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of the rear-admiral William Codrington (1832–1888) and Mary Auber Leach (1855–1930), nephew of —> Oliver Codrington (1837–1921). Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford (B.A.). In 1903…
CLOUGH, Benjamin. Bradford, Yorkshire bapt. 27.3.1791 — Southwark, Kent 13.4.1853. British Methodist Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Lost his father, the elder Benjamin Clough, a militia officer, when four. Mother Christina Balmfith or Balefith, an innkeeper. Joined the Methodists in the age of 17 and became a lay…