STEELE, Thomas. Walton near Brampton, Cumberland 27.5.1834 — Walton 29.12.1895. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of William Steele, a poet. Joined the Ceylon service in 1856. Worked in Kurunegala, Galle and Kandy, then Assistant Government Agent in Hambantota (1869 there). Translator, after retirement in 1876 lived in Carlisle,…
STEINER, Margaret(he). 3.5.1872 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1926 Tübingen under Garbe. In 1939 still working under Hauer at Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Verhältnis der Sāṁkhya-tattva-kaumudī zu den älteren Kommentaren zur Sāṁkhyakārikā. Manuscript of 102 p. 1926. – “Der Ahaṁkāra in den ältesten Upaniṣaden”, Festgabe Garbe 1927, 109-114. Sources:…
STEPHENS (Stevens), Thomas (Thomaz/Tomás Estevão/Estevam/Esteves, also known as Padre Busten/Buston). Bushton, Wiltshire 1549 (?) — Salcete 1619. Father. S.J. British Missionary in India, early Marathi scholar and author. Son of merchant Thomas and Jane Stephens, educated at Wiltshire College, then probably studied at Oxford. Adopting Catholic faith he went to Rome…
STEPHENSON, John. Padiham, Lancashire 6.2.1871 — London 2.2.1933. British Physician and Zoologist in India. Also a scholar of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, later also of Pashtu and Pañjabi. Educated at Burnley Grammar School, studies of medicine and zoology at Owen’s College, Manchester (B.Sc. 1890, B.Chir. 1893). Worked as physician in…
STEVENSON, John Sinclair. Rathgar, Dublin 4.2.1868 — 8.5.1930. Rev. Irish Missionary in India, the husband of —> Margaret Stevenson (née Adams, married 1906). Son of Rev. William Fleming Stevenson (1832–1884) and Elizabeth Montgomery Sinclair (1838–1916). Studies at Clifton College in Bristol, at Lincoln College, Oxford, at Edinburgh University and at…
STILL, John. Lambeth, London 1880 — Port Arthur, South Africa 9.9.1941. British Tea Planter Author, and Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of Canon John Still (1845–1914) and Anna Nitrill (or Nihill, 1853–1894), educated at Winchester College. In 1897 emigrated to Ceylon and became a tea planter near Dickoya in Central…
STIRLING, Andrew. 13.12.1794 — Calcutta 23.5.1830. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling (1760–1833) of Woburn, Surrey and Charlotte Grote, educated at Haileybury, 1811-12. To India in 1813. After College of Fort William 1814 Assistant to Resident in Delhi, then Commissioner’s Secretary in Cuttack until 1828. “Persian…
STOCKS, Cheridah de Beauvoir (née Cheridah Annie Ernst). Mrs. Evercreech, Somerset 6.11.1887 — Northampton 1.5.1971. British Aeronaut and Anthropologist. Daughter of Henry Ernst, a magistrate and landowner, and Annie Waring. In 1909 married David de Beauvoir Stocks (1884–1918), a navy officer, died in WW I. In 1911 she was the…
STEINTHAL, Paul. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Ph.D in 1881 Leipzig. One P.St., Ph.D., was living in Heidelberg in the 1920s. Publications: Diss. Specimen der Nāyādhammakahā. 84 p. B. 1881. – Edited: Udānaṁ. 8+104 p. L. 1885 (repr. P.T.S. Text Ser. 142). – “Aus den Geschichten früherer Existenzen Buddhas”, Zeitsch.…
SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach, Oberelsass (now Rouffach, Haut-Rhin) 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After gymnasium in Colmar (Alsace) studied Germanistics at Freiburg i.B., Munich, Göttingen and Strassburg, where he started Sanskrit under E. Leumann. After graduating in 1905 worked as school-teacher…