PENNELL, Theodore Leighton. Clifton, Bristol 7.10.1867 — Bannu (now in Pakistan) 23.12.1912. British Missionary Physician in India. Lost early his father, educated at Eastbourne College. M.D. 1891. Sent by C.M.S. arrived at Karachi in 1892, accompanied by his mother (d. 1908), and 1893 moved to Bannu near Afghanistan border. Married…
PEAKE, Harold John Edward. Ellesmere, Shropshire 29.9.1867 — 22.9.1946. British lay Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of Rev. John Peake, Vicar of Ellesmere, and his wife Matilda. Hon. M.A. 1925 Liverpool. Trained in estate management at Leicester. With his wife went around the world and stayed some time in a ranch in…
PASKE, Edward Hanson. Madras 15.4.1829 — Parkstone, Dorset 28.10.1907. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel Thomas Theophilus Paske (1789–1860) and Susan Amelia Goldingham. Bengal cadet 1846-47. From 1854 served in the Punjab. Deputy-Commissioner of Kangra, then Lieutenant-Colonel. Retired 1877 on health reasons. Married 1856 Amelie Catherine Jervois (1833–1905), three…
O’BRIEN, Aubrey John. Lahore 5.12.1870 — Kensington, London 31.8.1930.British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of —> Edward O’Brien (1840–1893) and Mary Oclanis Lamb (1848–1939). After Dover College studies at Sandhurst. Served first in British army, then in India briefly in Maratha Light Infantry and 29 years in the Punjab…
NORRIS, William. 1654? (Wikipedia c. 1658) — on sea 10.10.1702. Sir, First Bart. (1898). British Diplomat. Son of Thomas Norris of Speke Hall, Lancashire, and Katherine Garraway. M.P. for Liverpool 1695-1701 (Whig, succeeded his elder brother). In 1698-1702 he led an embassy to Aurangzeb for both William III and the…
MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, Robert Charles. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire 2.5.1914 — 4.10.2000. British Entomologist. Son of Rev. John M.-Th. Educated at Edinburgh and Kelvinside Academies. From 1932 studies of botany and zoology at Glasgow, B.Sc. 1936 in Zoology. D.Sc. 1942. Specializing on mosquito biology worked at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and…
MOSS(-BLUNDELL), Arthur Spence. Hessle near Hull 1853 — Winchester, Hampshite 5.12.1950. British Engineer in Sri Lanka. Son of William Henry Moss and Eliza Charlotte Blundell. In 1883 went from Ceylon to Selangot to build the railway line from Kuala Lumpur to Bukit Kuda. Married 1880 Grace Eveleigh Marshall (b. 1860), three…
MORRIS, John. 1895 — 13.12.1980. British Colonial Officer, Journalist and Social Anthropologist in India. Served in army in 1915-34, after WW I in India. As Gurkha officer learned Nepali. Retired as Major. From 1938 Professor of English Literature at Keio University and Lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities in Tokyo.…
MONTEITH, William. Abbey parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire 22.6.1790 — London 18.4.1864. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Diplomat and Historian in India. Major-General (1841). Son of William Monteith and Janet Goodwin. From 1809 Lieutenant in Madras Engineers, Captain 1817, Colonel 1839. In 1810 member of Malcolm’s embassy to Persia, remained there and served…
MITCHELL, Alfred Norval. 18.12.1906 — 1988. British Civil Servant in India. Joined I.C.S. in 1930, 1934 transferred to Political Service. Until 1947 Administrator of Bastar State. After a time in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) Secretary and Registrar of St.Andrews University, retired 1972. O.B.E. Married, at least one son. Publications: A Grammar of…