ORME, Robert. Anjengo (Anchuthengu), Travancore 25.12.1728 — Great Ealing (London) 13.1.1801. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Historiographer of the E.I.C. Son of Surgeon Alexander Orme of E.I.C. and his wife, née Hill. In the age of two he was sent to his aunt in London, educated at Harrow…
OMAN, John Campbell. Calcutta 1841 — 30/31.5.1911. British Indologist and Scholar of Religion in India. Son of the elder John Campbell Oman (1814–1849), a planter, and Maria Eweler (1813–1868). In 1866-77 in Indian Public Works Department. In 1877-97 Professor at Government College in Lahore, then retired. In 1898-99 Principal of…
OLDHAM, William Benjamin. Monkstown, county Dublin 16.4.1845 — Christchurch near Bournemouth 14.10.1916. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Thomas Wilson Oldham (1801–1854) and Mary Anne Bradley (1810–1895). “Educated at Kingstown School and Trinity College, Dublin. Went to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1865, was employed in Famine service…
OLDHAM, Charles Frederick Wood. Liverpool 2.1.1832 — Great Bealings, Woodbridge, Suffolk 25.3.1913 (hardly New Zealand 1913/14). British Physician and Indologist. Son of Searless Wood Oldham (1793–1843) and Hannah Brooks (1803–1854). Studies in St. George’s Hospital in London, from 1858 member of Royal College of Surgeons of England. From 1859 in…
OLDHAM, Charles Evelyn Arbuthnot William. Galway, Ireland 15.9.1869 — 18.11.1949. British (Irish) Scholar and Civil Servant in India. I.C.S. 1885-1919. Son of Charles Aemilius Oldham (1831–1869), a geologist working in India, who died before his birth, and Evelyn King, nephew of —> Thomas Oldham (1816–1878). Educated at Galway Grammar School…
NORRIS, Edwin. Taunton, Somerset 24.10.1795 — Brompton, London 10.12.1872. British Oriental and Celtic Scholar. Son of a printer. Educated at the local school by its headmaster, his uncle Henry Norris, himself uncle of —> J. Dowson (1820–1881). Never studied at a university. As young he spent six years in France…
NORMAN, Harry Campbell. Winkleigh, Devonshire 19.12.1878 — Benares (Varanasi) 11.4.1913. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar) in India. Son of James Norman (d. 1910), a physician, and Elizabeth Campbell, educated in Edinburgh. From 1896 studies at Edinburgh of Greek (under Butcher), Latin (Hardie) and Sanskrit (Eggeling). After M.A. in Classics moved in…
NOBLE, Peter Scott. 17.10.1899 — 12.5.1987. Sir. British Classical Scholar with interest in Indology. Educated in Aberdeen (Fraserburgh Academy). Studies of Classics at Aberdeen (1917-19 in army) and Cambridge (St.John’s College), soon also Sanskrit under E. J. Rapson and comparative linguistics under P. Giles. B.A. 1923, M.A. Fellow of St.John’s…
NICHOLSON, B. A. R. 1??? — 1???. British Physician in Bombay Medical Service. M.D. Active as early as 1832, serving in Bhooj (1836), Surat (1840) and Rajkote (1843/48). Married Catherine (d. 1843). Publications: Brief papers in Transactions of Bombay Geogr. Soc. 1844, 108f., JBRAS 1, 1844, Tr. of Linnean Soc.…
NICHOLL, George Frederick. Tipton, Staffordshire 5.11.1832 — 28.7.1913. British Semitic Scholar also interested in Indology. Son of John Nicholls (1811–1893, his sons dropped the final s), a colliery clerk and composer. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. 1878, Hon. Fellow 1888. As a schoolteacher in London he taught Sanskrit to…