BURNES, Alexander. Montrose, Angus 16.5.1805 — Kabul 2.11.1841. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) and Traveller in India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Son of James Burnes (1760–1852, provost and a cousin of the poet Robert Burns) and Elizabeth Glegg, brother of —> James Burnes (1801–1862). After attending the famous college…
BURNELL, Arthur Coke. St.Briavels, Gloucestershire 11.7.1840 — West Stratton, Hampshire 12. or 16.10.1882. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of Arthur Burnell, of E.I.C.’s marine service, and Mary Agnes Coke. Educated at Bedford School, studies at King’s College in London (met Fausbøll there who aroused his interest in…
BURN, Richard. L West Derby, Liverpool 1.2.1871 — Oxford 26.7.1947 (when 76). British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Islamic and Colonial India, Numismatist. Son of Richard Burn (1835–1896) and Harriet Tinsley. School in Liverpool, studies at Oxford (Christ Church). In 1891 joined the I.C.S., served in U.P. In 1900…
BURGESS, James. Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire 14.8.1832 — Edinburgh 3.10.1916. British (Scottish) Indologist and Archaeologist in India. School at Dumfries, studies at Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1856 entered Indian Educational Service and became Professor of Mathematics at Doveton College in Calcutta. From 1861 Head of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Parsee Benevolent Institution in…
BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, Francis (until 1815 Francis Buchanan, then Francis Hamilton). Branziet, Callander, Pertshire 15.2.1762 — Callander 15.6.1829. British (Scottish) Physician in India, Traveller and Naturalist, a Pioneer of Burmese Studies and of Indian Archaeology. Son of Thomas B., a physician, and Elizabeth Hamilton, took himself a M.D. at Edinburgh in 1783…
BUCHANAN, Claudius (born Claud Buchanan). Cambuslang near Glasgow 12.3.1766 — Broxbourne, Hertfordshire 9.2.1815. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Alexander Buchanan, a schoolmaster, and Janet Somers. Studies at Glasgow 1782-84 and 1786 and, after several years’ interval spent in London, from 1791 at Cambridge (B.A. 1795), ordained priest…
BRUCE, Charles. Roncally, Bengal 13.10.1836 — Edinburgh 13.12.1920. Sir. British (Scottish) Indologist, then in Colonial Service. Son of Thomas Bruce, of E.I.C. Educated at Harrow, Yale University (from 1856), and in Germany, a student of Roth at Tübingen (from 1861). From 1863 Assistant at British Museum Library, from 1865-69 also…
BROWNE, James. 1744 — Patna 22.6.1792. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Joined Indian army in 1765, 1772 aide-de-camp of Warren Hastings. “Collector of the Jungleterry districts, 1773; had difficult work in administering the country and settling disturbances. Sent by the Council on an embassy to Shah Alam at Delhi…
BROWNE, Edward Granville. Uley near Dursley, Gloucestershire 7.2.1862 — Cambridge 5.1.1926. British Oriental Scholar (mainly Persian, Turkish and Arabic, also Hindi-Urdu). Professor in Cambridge. Son of Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne (1839–1917), a civil engineer, and Annie Atkinson. Educated at Trinity College in Glenalmond and at Eton. Studies at Pembroke College,…
BROWN, William. 1??? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain, of the Revenue Survey (mentioned in 1822/42), in Dehra Dun. In 1828 surveyed Saharanpur, in 1842 Ludhiana. In 1842 he was Major. Publications: “Account of an ancient temple at Hissar, and of the ship model at that place”, JASB…