SHIRT, George. Cawthorne near Barnsley, Yorkshire 1843 — Quetta 16.6.1886. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of the elder George Shirt (1813–1896) and his wife Sarah (1811–1848). Educated at C.M.S. College in Islington, London, studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1864). Left for India in 1866 and worked for Church Missionary Society…
SELIGMAN, Brenda Zara (née Salaman). London 26.6.1883 — Kensington, London 2.1.1965. British Anthropologist. Daughter of Myer and Sarah Salaman, a well-to-do Jewish family, grew up on London. Studied pre-medical biology at Bedford College in London. Married 1905 —> Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873–1940), with whom she then collaborated, but also became…
SCOTT, Hugh Robert. 1859 — 1929. Rev. Irish Presbyterian Missionary in India interested in Numismatics. M.A. Dr. Worked as missionary of Irish Presbyterian Mission in Rajkot (1883-97) and Surat, Gujarat, until 1928. In 1926 corresponded with Gandhi, had then been 42 years in India. Married with Jeanie Hill Moore (d.…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge (1835–1921), a Baptist grocer and draper, and Sarah Clarke. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend —>…
SANDFORD, Walter. 1848 — 1???. British Civil Servant or Officer (?) in India. Son of John Sandford. In Secunderabad (1880), soon in London (1885). Publications: “Account of Excavations made near Manikyala, in the Panjab”, IA 9, 1880, 153-158. Sources: Briefly mentioned in a Sandford genealogy found in www.myheritageimages.com.
SANDERSON, Daniel. Cockermouth, Cumberland 9.2.1819 — 1902. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of Anglican parents, himself Methodist missionary in Mysore State (Bangalore, Mysore, Tumkur, Gubbi) in 1842-67 (1843-44 in South Africa). Back in the U.K. Director of Richmond Theological College in London. Married Martha Perress (d. 1849), two…
SANDBERG, Samuel Louis Graham. Oughtibridge, Yorkshire 9.12.1851 — Bournemouth 2.3.1905. Rev. British Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Rev. Paul Louis Sandberg (1819–1878), a vicar and former (1843-49) missionary in India, with Swedish ancestry, and Maria Graham. Educated in Liverpool and Birkenhead. B.A. 1870 Dublin University, then studied law at Inner…
SAMUELLS, William Leycester. Patna 14.7.1841 — 1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> E. A. Samuells (1814–1860). From 1857 served in Bengal. As captain, in 1868-72 in Chota Nagpur and Rewa. Then in Barrackpur and Hill Tippera. Retired as colonel in 1890. Publications: Letters on the Rock and Temples…
SAMUELLS, Edward Alexander. Bapt. Westmoreland, Jamaica 28.12.1814 — Surrey 23.12.1860. British Civil Servant in India. Son of physician Paul Stevens Samuells (1775–1850) and Isabella Walker. Member of Bengal Civil Service until his early death. Magistrate in Tirhut, finally Commissioner of Patna. Married 1840 Anna Charlotte Pringle (1822–1893), father of —>…
SAMPSON, John (“Romano Rai”). Schull, County Cork 25.2.1862 — West Kirkby, Cheshire 9.11.1931. British (Irish) Librarian and Gipsy Scholar. Son of James Sampson (1813–1871?), a chemist and mining engineer from Cornwall, and Sarah Anne MacDermott. His father lost all his money in a bank failure 1871 and the family moved…