COX, Edward Thomas. London 9.7.1807 — Chicacole (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh) 28.8.1854. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Lewis Cox of Hamcommon, a printer, Surrey, and Jane Caroline Axtell. Educated at St. Paul’s School. Cadet 1827, then Captain in Madras Army (1847) and Major.Married 1834 Sophia Gordon Hands (1815–1885),…
COTTON, Arthur Thomas. Combermere, Cheshire 15.5.1803 — Dorking, Surrey 24.7.1899. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Irrigation Engineer in India. General. Son of Captain Henry Calvely Cotton (1755–1837) and Matilda Lockwood. After Addiscombe joined Madras Engineer Group in 1819, served first in the U.K., arrived at Madras in 1821. Conducted various…
CORDINER, James. 1775 — Aberdeen 13.1.1836. Rev. British (Scottish) Episcopal Priest in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Charles Cordiner (1746?–1794), minister of Banff. Educated in Banff, studies at Aberdeen (A.M. 1793). From 1797 in charge of Military Orphan Asylum in Madras. In 1799-1804 second chaplain to the garrison in Colombo and principal of…
COPE, Henry. 18?? — 187?. British Journalist in India. In 1847 he resided in Delhi and was the secretary of the just-founded local Archaeological Society and editor of the Delhi Gazette. Soon moved to Lahore, founded (1849) and edited the Lahore Chronicle in 1850-56. In the 1860s secretary of Agri-Horticultural Society.…
BRUCE, Richard Isaac. County Cork 1840 — Teddington, Middlesex 29.4.1924. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Jonathan Bruce (1795?–1875), a landowner, and Anne Maxwell. Helped by his elder brother, Rev. Robert Bruce, a missionary in North-West India, came to Dera Ismail Khan (1862?). Served in the Second Afghan…
BROWNE, John Frederick. 1835? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Browne. Studies at Exeter College, Oxford (Boden Scholarship of Sanskrit 1853) and Haileybury, in 1858 already in India, in Bengal C.S. Married, daughter born in India 1866. There was an elder JFB, a Lieutenant-Colonel, who had…
BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1962. British Geologist in India and Burma. Son of George Richard Brown and Eliza Bedlington Coggin. Educated at King James I School and Armstrong College of the University of Durham. Graduated 1904 in geology and chemistry. M.Sc. 1911 Durham. In 1905…
BRICE, Nathaniel. Plymtree, Devon 13.11.1814 — Dinapore, Bihar 2.7.1869. British Baptist Missionary in India. The Preface of the book is signed in Dinapore (now Danapur in Bihar), where the birth of a daughter is mentioned in 1843. The Baptist missionary J. G. Gregson married 1861 the eldest daughter of Nath. Brice…
CONOLLY, Edward Barry. London? 1808 — Kohat, Afghanistan ?.10.1840. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Valentine Conolly (1763–1809), formerly surgeon in India, and Matilda Dunkin (1781–1819). From 1824 served in Bengal Cavalry. Lieutenant, then Captain. Died (shot) when in command of the escort of British envoy in Kabul. His elder…
COLLET, Charles. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. In Madras C.S. Sub-Collector in Malabar (1855), when his superior, H. V. Conolly, was murdered, and reported the events. Moved later to Madras and wrote the Reader there. In 1866 Ch. Collet of Madras C.S. was nominated a High Court…