AITKEN, Edward Hamilton. Satara, Maharashtra 16.8.1851 — Edinburgh 11.4.1909. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. James Aitken, a missionary of Free Church of Scotland, educated in Bombay. Studies at Bombay University, B.A. and M.A. In 1870-76 Reader in Latin at Deccan College. Then served in Customs and…
ABERIGH-MACKAY, George Robert. Bengal (?) 25.7.1848 — Indore 12.1.1881. British (Scottish) Teacher in India. Son of Rev. Dr. James Aberigh-M. and Lucia Livingston Reed, educated privately in Scotland. Studies at Oxford (Magdalen College School) and Cambridge (St.Catherine’s College). Joined Indian Education Department in 1870 in Bareli, 1873 Professor of English…
PEAL, Samuel Edward. 31.12.1834 — Moran, Sibsagar 29.7.1897. British Lay Ethnographer and Botanist. Originally an artist, in 1862 went to India and became a tea-planter near Sibsagar, Assam. As a planter he did not succeed well, but gained some fame with his biological and ethnographical studies. Like many of his…
ZOETE, Beryl Drusilla de. London 1879 — 4.3.1962. British Dance Teacher, Dance Critic and Dance Researcher, also a Translator. Born in a family of distant Dutch descent, daughter of Edward Frank de Z. and Drusilla Kent. Studied English at Somerville College, Oxford, graduated 1901. She worked as dance teacher concentrating on…
YOUNGSON, John Forbes White. Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire 6.3.1852 — India 27.6.1920. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Alexander Youngson and Helen Chapman, educated at Pitsligo and Skene Schools. Studies at Aberdeen: M.A. 1873, B.D. 1884. Joined Church of Scotland Mission and served from 1875 in Sialkot, then in Gujrat and,…
YOUNG, Robert. Edinburgh 10.9.1822 — Edinburgh 14.10.1888. British (Scottish) Missionary Printer in India, also a Hebrew Scholar. Son of John Young, a book-binder (Wikipedia) or of George Young, manager of a flour mill (D.N.B., adding that father died when he was child). From 1838 worked as printer’s apprentice, used free…
YOUNG, Robert. 17?? — 2.7.1823. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain, in 1821-22 Surveyor in the Nizam’s dominions. Married 1819 in Vellore Mary Hazlewood. Buried in Masulipatam. In 1848 the daughter of “the late Capt. Young, Madras army” was married. Publications: “An Account of Some Ancient Graves in the Vicinity of…
YOUNG, Alex Henderson. 18?? — 1916. Rev. British (Scottish) Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. After five years as Pastor of Baptist Church came to Orissa in 1882. Headmaster of the English school in Cuttack (Katak) later known as Stewart School. In this he was succeeded by his younger brother John…
WYNCH, Paul Marriot(t). India 1780 — Hawkhurst, Kent 12.3.1841. British Civil Servant in India. Son of William Alexander Wynch (1750–1819) and Arrhoda Crocket. Joined Bengal Civil Service in 1808. From 1818 Acting Registrar of Sudder Dewany and Nizamut Adawlut at Fort William, then Magistrate of 24 Parganas. Judicial Deputy Secretary…
WROTH, Warwick William. Clerkenwell near London 24.8.1858 — London 26.9.1911. British Numismatist. Son of Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth (1825?–1867) and Sophia Brooks. After King’s School in Canterbury joined British Museum Dept. of coins and medals in 1878. Finally Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in British Museum. Died after an…