CAMPBELL, James Macnabb

CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — Achnashie, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnography and History. Son of Rev. John Mcleod Campbell (1800–1872, D.D.) and Mary Campbell. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (M.A. 1866), passed I.C.S. examination 1867. Went to Bombay in…

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CAMPBELL, George

CAMPBELL, George. 22.3.1824 — Cairo, Egypt 18.2.1892. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India. Son of Sir George Campbell (1778–1854) of Edenwood, surgeon of E.I.C.’s Medical service, and Margaret Christie. Educated at Edinburgh New Academy, St.Andrews, Madras College, and Haileybury. Went to India in 1842, served in the…

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CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan

CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan. Edinburgh 6.1.1786 (or 1789?) — London 4.4.1857. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Telugu. Son of William Campbell (1749–1815) and Catherine Gunning. From 1806 in Madras Civil Service, 1816 Member of the Board of Superintendence for College of Fort St. George, from 1821 Collector and…

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CAMPBELL, Andrew

CAMPBELL, Andrew. Bolton, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission of Free Church of Scotland, from 1872, first at Giridh in Hazaribagh dt., from 1879 at Pokharia in Manbhoom. Also an Honorary Magistrate, and Member of the…

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CAMPBELL, Archibald (elder)

CAMPBELL, Archibald. Kildalton, Port Ellen, Islay, Hebrides 20.4.1805 (not 1804) — Slough, Berkshire 5.11.1874. British (Scottish) Physician in India and Nepal. His first name was Archibald, but he usually signed just A. Campbell, which led some to assume Andrew or Arthur. Son of the elder Archibald Campbell, a lieutenant, and…

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CALDWELL, Robert

CALDWELL, Robert. Clady, county Tyrone, Northern Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Indologist. Born in Ireland of poor Presbyterian Ulster Scottish parents, William Caldwell, a calico printer, and Isabella Hamilton. The family moved to Glasgow, where he had to work from the age of nine.…

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CAIN, John

CAIN, John. 184? — 17.3.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Arrived in India in 1869, from 1874 in Dummagudem in Godavari dt. working there until his death. Married 1880 Sarah Davies (d. 1934 in Dummagudem), the first Australian missionary in India. He collected notes about Dravidian tribal languages and customs…

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CADELL, Patrick

CADELL, Patrick Robert. Bhurtpore (Bharatpur), Bengal 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon, Berkshire 22.11.1961 (when 90). Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India and Historian of Colonial India. Son of colonel Thomas Cadell (1835–1919) and Anna Dalmahoy (1837–1876). Educated at Edinburgh Academy (1881-82) and Haileybury, studies at Oxford (Balliol College). Joined…

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BUTTERWORTH, Allan

BUTTERWORTH, Alan. Southport, Lancashire 25.7.1864 — London 25.5.1937. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Butterworth and Mary Jane Schofield. Educated at Elizabeth College in Guernsey and studied from 1883 at Balliol College in Oxford. In 1886 joined I.C.S. in Madras. From 1897 Deputy and Sessions Judge in Dharwar,…

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BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton

BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton. Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent 28.7.1844 — Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 19.9.1908. British Physician in China, a Sinologist and early Specialist of Chinese Art. Son of William Bushell, a wealthy farmer, and Sarah Francis Wootton (d. 1850). Educated in Tunbridge and Chigwell. Studies at Guy’s Hospital and London University…

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