BAINES, Jervoise Athelstane. Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire 17.10.1847 — Kidlington, Oxfordshire 26.11.1925. Sir. British Civil Servant in India and an Ethnologist. Son of the Rev. Edward Baines and his wife Catherine Eularia. Educated at Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Served in the I.C.S. in Bombay 1870-89. Then Census Commissioneer under the Government…
BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Balipooreah. Channel Islands 2.5.1871 — Arrah, Bengal 1.5.1914. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist concentrating on the Saoria tribe (also known as Pahariya) of Bihar. He has been difficult to identify as he has not left many traces. He is not among members of A.S.B. in 1906. The study…
BAILEY, Harold Walter. Devizes, Wiltshire 16.12.1899 — 11.1.1996 (when 96), Cambridge. Sir (1960). British Indo-Iranian Scholar, Famous Specialist of the Khotan Saka. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Frederic Charles Quinton Bailey (1869–1952) and Emma Jane Reichardt (1871–1962). Born in England, he moved with his parents in 1910 to start a…
BAILEY, Thomas Grahame. Ambala 8.9.1872 — Edinburgh 5.4.1942. Rev. British (Irish) Priest and Indologist, a Specialist of Urdu and North-West Indian Languages. Son of Wellesley Cosby Bailey (1846–1937), a medical missionary, and Alice Hargraves. After early years in India sent to school in Edinburgh when nine. M.A. and B.D., ordained.…
BAILEY, Benjamin. Dewsbury, Yorkshire ?.11.1791 — Sheinton, Shropshire 3.4.1871. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society and Pioneer of Malayālam Lexicography. Son of Joseph and Martha Bailey. Ordained priest 1815 in York, he married 1816 Elizabeth Ella and left for Kerala, where he founded his mission station in Kottayam. Worked…
BADEN POWELL, Baden Henry (born Baden Henry Powell). Oxford 23.8.1841 — Oxford 2.1.1901. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Baden Powell (1796–1860, a mathematician and Oxford Professor) and Charlotte Pope (d. 1844). His half-brother was Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), the founder of the boy scout organization. Educated at St.Paul’s…
BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy. London 5.3.1794 — London 5/8.4.1865. British Physician interested in Tamil Language and Literature. Son of a London physician, William Babington (1756–1833, of Irish origin), and Martha Elizabeth Hough (1766–1849). Educated at Charterhouse 1803-07. He served in the navy until 1810, got then an appointment in India and…
AYRTON, Edward Russell. Wuhu, prove. Anhui, China 17.12.1882 — Tissamaharama 18.5.1914. British Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of William Scrope Ayrton (1849–1904), of China Consular Service, and Ellen Louisa McClatchie (1855–1897). The family came from Yorkshire. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London. Archaeological training in Europe and Egypt (as Flinders…
ATKINSON, Robert. Gateshead, Yorkshire 6.4.1839 — Rathmines near Dublin 10.1.1908. British Linguist (IE, Celtic and Sanskrit Scholar) in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Born in Yorkshire as the only child of businessman John Atkinson and his wife Ann. Educated at Anchorage grammar school in Yorkshire. Studies at Trinity College in Dublin…
ARNOT, Sandford. 1797? — London 21.6.1834. British (Scottish) Indologist (Hindi/Urdu Scholar). From 1821 (then already in India, but still young) Assistant editor of the Calcutta Journal. He wrote an article considered offensive to Government and was banished from India to Singapore, where Raffles arranged his journey to England. The quarrels…