WILMOT, Claude Rupert Trench. Stoke Newington, London 10.11.1897 — Cirencester, Gloucestershire 27.7.1961. British Colonial Officer in North-West India. Son of Claude Ernest Willington Wilmot (1868–1935), a physician, and Gertrude Isabelle Bate. Served in the WW I in Sherwood Foresters, then served in Egypt, Turkey and India, in the Punjab and…
WILLIAMS, Robert Hamilton Blair. Buckland, East Tilbury, Essex 21.8.1915 — 1975 (place and date not known). British Indologist. At S.O.A.S. in London. Son of Hamilton Blair Lee Williams. Graduated B.A. 1937 from S.O.A.S. in Indo-Aryan (under Turner). Assistant Keeper in India Office Library (Sanskrit, Pāli and Prākrit books) in 1939-46…
WHITEHEAD, Henry Alfred. Brighton, Sussex 19.12.1853 — Reading, Berkshire 14.4.1947, when 93. British Anglican Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Alfred Whitehead (1827–1898) and Maria Sarah Buckmaster, brother of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947). Educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained 1879, left in 1884 to India. Worked as principal…
WARREN, Herbert. 1866 — 1954. British Promoter of Jainism. Studied under Virchand Gandhi (1864–1901) and adopted Jainism, his books are based on Gandhi’s teaching. Publications: Jainism in Western Garb as a Solution to Life’s Great Problems. Arrah 1912, 2nd ed. 148 p. Arrah 1916. – Jainism Not Atheism and the six…
WALSHE, Maurice O’Connell. London 22.12.1911 — 18.4.1998. British Germanist and Bauddha. Born of a family with Irish background. Studied German at University College, London (B.A. 1932, M.A. 1935), and at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Vienna, one year Lecturer at Freiburg i. Br. In 1937-39 Assistant Lecturer in German…
VAUX, William Sandys Wright. Oxford 28.2.1818 — Chelsea, London 21.6.1885. British Numismatist and Antiquarian. Son of Rev. William Vaux (d. 1844) and Mary Hawkins, educated at Westminster School and graduated B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1840 (M.A. 1842). From 1841 worked in British Museum, in 1861–70 as Keeper of…
THORNTON, Thomas Henry. London (?) 1832 (Wikidata 13.11.1831?) — Bath 10.3.1913. British Civil Servant in India. Son of a Times journalist, Thomas Thornton, and his wife Elizabeth. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School, studies at Oxford (St.John’s College, 1855 its Fellow). In 1855 entered I.C.S. as one of the first “competition-wallahs”.…
THOMPSON, Malcolm Stuart Haughton. 1 Madras 1885 — London 1966. British Tamil Scholar. Son of Robert William Thompson (1843–1919) and his wife Ada Helen Maude (1860–1893). B.A. Worked as teacher in Tamil Nadu, in 1931-32 Principal of Rajahmundry College. Then Inspector of schools in Bangalore (1940). Taught Tamil at S.O.A.S.…
STOTHERT, Richard. Edinburgh 10.12.1833 — Bombay 22.10.1898. Rev. British Missionary and Classical Scholar in India. Son of William Stothert, a military man. Studies at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities (M.A.). After brief service as chaplain in Bermuda ordained priest in 1860 and left for Bombay. First missionary of Free Church of…
STONEHOUSE, John A. 17?? — 18??. British Civil Servant in India. In 1780 Assistant to Collector in Shawabad, in 1795/96 Collector in Medinipur, soon in Midnapur, soon in Midnapur, then judge in Calcutta and from 1802 in Benares. Publications: “Letter from the Emperor Akbar to Abdûllah Khan. the Usbeck, Ruler…