ST.GEORGE, Harry Hemersley (hardly Hamersley). Ardersier, Inverness 11.12.1845 — 18.2.1897. British Colonial Officer in Sri Lanka. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son James Dorrington Nibbett St.George (1815–1882) and Matilda Cohen (1815–1901). Spent many years in Ceylon, in 1885 participated in Sudan campaign. Last years in Edinburgh. Also an artist who painted landscapes and archaeological…
STEVENSON, James Arthur Robert. Mysore State 27.10.1800 — Ganjam, Karnataka 21.6.1837. British Civil Servant in India. Son of James Desert Stevenson (1751–1805?), an officer in Indian army, and Elizabeth Francklyn West (1774–1834). College education in Madras. Served in Madras Presidency. Collector in Dharwar (1824). Commissioner in Goomtoor (Gumsūr). Apparently still…
STEVENSON, Henry Noel Cochran. 1903 — 1984. British Civil Servant in Burma. But according to The London Gazette 11.1.1929 he was promoted second Lieutenant in 1928. Supplement to the same 8.6.1944 mentions him as Assistant Superintendent in Burma Frontier Service, made O.B.E. in Civil Division. Publications: “Status Evaluation in the Hindu…
STEGMILLER, Frumentius. Feldafing, Bavaria 16.6.1880 — Kaufbeuren, Bavaria 2.2.1929. S.D.S. Father. German Catholic Missionary in India. School in Munich. Entered Salvatorian order in 1894, studied theology in Rome and Meran, ordained priest in 1903. In 1906-11 worked in Khasi Hills, Assam (now Meghalaya). Back in Germany, served in WW I…
STACE, Walter Terence. Hampstead, London 17.11.1886 — Laguna Beach, Calif. 2.8.1967. British Civil Servant and Philosopher in Sri Lanka and the U.S.A. Son of Major Edward Vincent Stace (1841–1903) of Royal Artillery and Amy Mary Watson (1856–1934). Educated ar Bath College (1895-1901) and at Fettes College in Edinburgh (1902-04). Planning…
SPRINGER (Sprenger), Balthasar. Vils, Ausserfern, Tyrol 14?? — 1509/11. Austrian Traveller in service of Welser trading house of Augsburg. Probably son of Johannes (Hans) Springer who was in service of the local prince, and Anastasia Steidlin (?). Very little is known of Balthasar’s own life. In Welser service he went…
SMART, Roderick Ninian. Cambridge 6.5.1927 — Lancaster 29.1.2001. British (Scottish) Scholar of Religion. Son of William Marchall Smart (1889–1975, from 1937 Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow), and Isabel Carswell, educated in Glasgow. In 1945-48 served in army intelligence, one year in Sri Lanka. Then studied classics and philosophy at Oxford…
SLATER, Gilbert. Plymouth 27.8.1864 — Oxford 8.3.1938. British Economist and Social Reformer. Son of a school teacher, Daniel Slater (1832–1902), and Ellen Augusta Trevor. Studied economics (M.A.), one of the first doctors of the London School of Economics. In 1909-15 Principal of Ruskin College in Oxford. From 1915 the first…
SIEGLIN, Wilhelm. Stuttgart 19.4.1855 — Bad Hofgastein, Austria 9.7.1935. German Historian, specialist of Historical Geography. Son of pharmacist Ernst Sieglin (1814–1855) and Mathilde Staub (1832–1895), educated in Stuttgart and Blaubeuren. From 1873 studies of classics and history at Tübingen, Leipzig, Berlin and Greifswald. Ph.D. 1878 Leipzig. From 1880 Assistant Librarian,…
SHORTT, John. Arcot (?) 26.2.1822 — Yerkaud 24.4.1889. British (Anglo-Indian) Physician in India. Son of the elder John Shortt (d. 1837), a retired E.I.C. officer (Major), and his Indian wife Rose (1789–1841). Trained as apothecary at Madras Medical School until 1846. Then joined E.I.C. service as Assistant Apothecary and in…