LESLIE, Isobel Julia. Dar es Salaam 23.1.1948 — Dacorum, Hertfordshire 24.9.2004. British Indologist. Daughter of John Arthur Kingsley Leslie (1918–2011) and Elizabeth Helen Tancock (2021–2008). Studied philosophy, French and German at University of Sussex, then six years in South Asia. M.Phil. 1980 and D.Phil. 1983 Oxford. In the 1980s at…
HORSLEY, William Henry. Teddington, Middlesex 28.10.1812 — England 8.2.1893. British Colonial Engineer Officer. Son of of George Henry Horsley of Middlesex and Frances Elizabeth Harding. After Addiscombe a year of specialist training at Chatham and then joined Madras Engineers. Mainly involved with civil engineering projects, especially in Travancore. Finally Lieutenant-Colonel.…
HART, Gillian (Jill) R. Eastbourne, Sussex 11.8.1934 — 8.2.2004. British Indo-European Linguist. Daughter of farmer Alexander and Catherine Hart. During the war the family moved to Devon and 1945 to South Oxfordshire. After school in Reading 1947-53 one year studies at Reading University, then from 1954 at Oxford (Lady Margaret…
HARLE, James (Jim) Coffin. Santa Monica, Calif. 5.4.1920 — 27.6.2004. U.S. Art Historian in the U.K. Son of James Wyly Harle and Elfrieda Frances Baumann. Educated at St George’s School in Newport, RI, studies at Princeton (B.A. 1942). In 1942-46 in war service in U.S.N.R., Aviation Branch, retired as Lieutenant.…
CAMPBELL, William. Old Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire 1799 — Islington, London 14.12.1878. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Joined London Missionary Society and ordained priest 1823 in Liverpool. From c. 1823-35 worked twelve years in India (Bangalore), then returned to the U.K. because of his wife’s poor health. From 1841 worked in…
ALLEN, William Sidney. London 18.3.1918 — Cambridge 22.4.2004. British Linguist and Sanskritist. Professor at Cambridge. Son of William Percy Allen, a maintenance engineer of printing works, and Ethel Pearce. Educated at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham. Studied 1937-39 Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, soon turning to comparative philology and Sanskrit (Bailey).…
ZWALF, Wladimir (“Volodja”). 30.8.1932 — Cambridge ?.9.2002. British Indologist and Librarian. Son of economist Meijer Max Zwalf (1901–1954) and Maria (Manja) Schwarz (1904–1980, a Russian Jew), born in England. In 1952-55 studies at Lincoln College, Oxford (Sanskrit under Burrow). In 1957-62 Assistant Keeper in charge of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and…
WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset. Purfleet, Essex 22.9.1844 (or 26.5.) — 28.10.1920 (niceartgallery, Wikidata has 26.5.1898}. British Colonial Officer in India, Explorer and Amateur Artist. Major-General. Son of navy officer John Bolton Woodthorpe and Emily Howard. Educated at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. In 1865 joined Royal Engineers, soon to India. In…
WOLLASTON, Arthur Naylor. Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey 14.10.1842 — Walmer, Kent 8.2.1922. Sir. British Oriental Scholar. Son of Henry Francis Wollaston (1803–1876) and Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor. Educated at Stockwell Grammar School. In 1859 (when only 16) joined Political Department of India Office, worked under John Kaye, later moved to Revenue,…
WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Winchester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John Thomas Widgery and Ellen Thomas. Studies at Cambridge (St.Catharine’s College, B.A. 1908, M.A. 1912). From 1908-10 taught at Bristol University, 1910-12 further studies at Marburg, Jena and Sorbonne. Then…