JARRETT, Henry Sullivan. Madras 17.6.1839 — East Grinstead, Sussex 15.4.1919. British Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of Thomas Stanhope Jarrett and Eliza Julia Chambers. Educated at Prior Park, Bath. Joined Indian army in 1857, just in time to serve against the insurrection. In 1870-94 Secretary and Member of Board…
JAMES, Arthur Lloyd. Pentre, Glamorgan, Wales 21.6.1884 — Crowthorne, Berkshire 24.3.1943. British (Welsh) Phonetician. Professor in London. After school in Llanelli and Pontypridd studies of French at Cardiff, later at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated 1910. In WW I served in Royal Engineers. From 1920 Lecturer in Phonetics at University College, London,…
JACKSON, Robert Pilkington. Warrington, Lancashire 1868/69 (bapt. 5.2.1869) — Worthing, West Sussex 30.1.1914. British Colonial Officer in Indiaand Burma. Major. Son of George J. and Anne Pilkington. Served in South India and Burma 1888-1908. Married 1898 Euphemia Stoddarr McCartney (d. 1914), two sons. Publications: Historical Records of the XIIIth Madras Infantry.…
IRVINE, Francis. Drumoak, Aberdeenshire 8.2.1786 — Edinburgh 16.12.1855. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Alexander I. and Jean Forbes, mother died soon after his birth. Joined army as cadet in 1804 and left for India. Served in Bengal Native Infantry, resigned as Captain in 1824. Already 1820 moved…
HUNT, Edmund Henderson. Kensington, London 23.11.1874 — Farnham, Surrey 15.12.1952. British Physician (Surgeon) in India, interested in Archaeology. Son of John Mortimer Hunt and Eliza Henderson. Studies at Oxford (Balliol College). M.D. Chief medical officer to the Nizam’s State Railway. Conducted excavations and collected porcelain. Returned to the U.K. in…
HUDSON-WILLIAMS, Thomas. Caernarfon, Gwynedd 4.2.1873 — 12.4.1961. British (Welsh) Celtologist and Comparative Linguist. Professor in Bangor. Son of R. Williams. Educated in Bangor. Studies at University College of North Wales in Bangor (graduated 1894) and Greifswald (Zimmer). D.Litt. 1911 London. From 1896 Assistant Lecturer in French and German at Bangor,…
HOWORTH, Henry Hoyle. Lisbon 1.7.1842 — London 15.7.1923. Sir. British Barrister, Conservative Politician and amateur Historian and Geologist. Son of Henry H. (1817–1850), a British merchant residing in Portugal, and Elizabeth Beswick, educated at Rossall School in Lancashire. Called to the bar 1867 (Middle Temple), practised as lawyer in Manchester.…
HOUGH, William. 1789 — 1865. British Colonial Officer in India. Came there in 1805, participated in Nepal War (1814-16), Third Maratha War (1817-18) and First Afghan War (1839-42), and was an authority on military law. Major (1838/45) and Deputy Judge Advocat General of Bengal Army, retired before 1853. Publications: A…
HORNE, Eric Arthur. Clevedon, Somerset 29.11.1883 — Aligarh 7.6.1930. British Teacher in India. Educated at Mill Hill School, studies of history and economics at St.Andrews. After some years’ work in labour department of the Board of Trade, from 1911 Professor Economics at, then Principal of Patna College of Patna University…
HOPE, Theodore Cracraft. 9.12.1831 — London 4.7.1915. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. The only child of James Hope (1801–1841), a noted physician, and Anne Fulton (1809–1887), an author (historian). Educated at Rugby and Haileybury. In 1853 joined Bombay Civil Service. Worked in Gujarat, especially in Ahmedabad and Surat, from…