PETERSON, Peter. Edinburgh 12.1.1847 — Bombay 28.10.1899. British (Scottish) Indologist in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of merchant John Peterson and Grace Mountford Anderson. Father was a native of Shetland Islands, therefore also the son often described himself as Shetlander. Educated in Edinburgh, then studies of Indology, etc., at Edinburgh…
PENZER, Norman Mosley. Mawdesley, Chorley, Lancashire 30.9.1892 — Uckfield, Sussex 27.11.1960. British Folklorist and Scholar of Asia. Son of Rev. Seymour Penzer (1857–1918) and Grace Caroline Wood. Studies at Cambridge (M.A.). Private scholar with no official position. Also known as a specialist of Richard Burton. Married Kathleen Willoughby Baldrey and…
PEILE, John. Whitehaven, Cumberland 24.4.1838 — Cambridge 9.10.1910. British Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of geologist Williamson Peile (1810–1843), F.G.S., and Elizabeth Hodgson (1815–1850), lost his father in the age of five. Educated at Repton School, at St.Bees School, and from 1856 studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge. B.A. 1860, M.A.…
PEET, Joseph. Spitalfields, London 1.2.1801 — Mavelikara 11.8.1865. Rev. British Missionary in Kerala. Son of Benjamin Peet, a silk dyer, and Elizabeth Lafond. Apparently worked himself as dyer. From 1829 studies at Church Missionary College in Islington (London), ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832 in London. Joined the Church Missionary…
PEARSON, Joseph. Yorkshire 19.4.1881 — Tasmania 20.6.1971. British Zoologist and Marine Biologist also interested in History, in Sri Lanka and Australia. Son of Daniel Pearson and Cecilia Parr. Educated at Liverpool College, then at university there. B.Sc. 1902, Liverpool, then postgraduate studies at Manchester. In 1910-33 Director of Colombo Museum.…
PARKER, Henry John. 1849 — 19??. British Engineer and Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Arrived in 1873 and in 1873-1904 worked as Irrigation Officer at Public Works Department, serving in different parts of the island. Interest in ancient reservoirs led him to archaeology. At the same time he achieved an…
PARGITER, Frederick Eden. Jaffna, Sri Lanka 1852 — Charlbury, Oxfordshire 18.2.1927. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India (I.C.S. 1875-1906). Son of Rev. Robert P. and Anna Matilda Palm, educated at Taunton Grammar School. Studies at Oxford (Exeter College), mathematics, Sanskrit, etc. In 1875 he joined the Bengal Civil Service…
PAGE, Walter Sutton. Andover, Hampshire 2.12.1873 — Chingford, Essex 19.2.1938. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist. Son of Walter Page and Phyllis Marian Cooper. B.A. and B.D. London. Worked 20 years in India as a Baptist missionary in 1896-1916, mainly in Serampur and Dacca (Dhaka). In WW I served as army…
PAGE, James Alfred. 1887 — 19??. British Archaeologist in India. In 1910-15 studied at Royal Academy. Worked in Delhi at least from 1918. Superintendent of A.S.I. (1926). Publications:Six short reports of Nalanda excavations in ASIAR from 1922-23 to 1928-29; “Nalanda Excavations”, JBORS 9, 1923, 1-22. – A Historical memoir on…
VIGNE, Godfrey Thomas. Walthamstown, Essex 1.9.1801 — Woosford, Essex 12.7.1863. British Traveller in India and America. Son of Thomas Vigne, “educated at Harrow. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1824. Travelled in [North] America, 1831. Went to India, 1832, through Persia. Visited Kashmir, Ladak, Afghanistan, saw the Amir [1836]……