CAMPBELL, William Howard. Londonderry, Ireland 20.9.1859 — Bourdighera in Liguria, Italy 18.2.1910. Rev. British (Irish/Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Son of Thomas Callender Campbell (1835–1902), a businessman, and his Scottish wife, Agnes Callender (1834–1925). Educated in Derry. Studies at Edinburgh University (M.A. 1880, B.D. 1882), also learned Sanskrit. From 1884…
CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — Achnashie, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnography and History. Son of Rev. John Mcleod Campbell (1800–1872, D.D.) and Mary Campbell. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (M.A. 1866), passed I.C.S. examination 1867. Went to Bombay in…
CAMPBELL, George. 22.3.1824 — Cairo, Egypt 18.2.1892. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India. Son of Sir George Campbell (1778–1854) of Edenwood, surgeon of E.I.C.’s Medical service, and Margaret Christie. Educated at Edinburgh New Academy, St.Andrews, Madras College, and Haileybury. Went to India in 1842, served in the…
CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan. Edinburgh 6.1.1786 (or 1789?) — London 4.4.1857. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Telugu. Son of William Campbell (1749–1815) and Catherine Gunning. From 1806 in Madras Civil Service, 1816 Member of the Board of Superintendence for College of Fort St. George, from 1821 Collector and…
CAMPBELL, Andrew. Bolton, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission of Free Church of Scotland, from 1872, first at Giridh in Hazaribagh dt., from 1879 at Pokharia in Manbhoom. Also an Honorary Magistrate, and Member of the…
CAMPBELL, Archibald. Kildalton, Port Ellen, Islay, Hebrides 20.4.1805 (not 1804) — Slough, Berkshire 5.11.1874. British (Scottish) Physician in India and Nepal. His first name was Archibald, but he usually signed just A. Campbell, which led some to assume Andrew or Arthur. Son of the elder Archibald Campbell, a lieutenant, and…
CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Coimbra (or Lisbon?) 1524/25 — Lisbon 10.6.1580. Portuguese Poet. Born in a poor noble family, the only son of Simão Vaz de Camões and Ana de Sá de Macedo. Educated by Dominicans and Jesuits, briefly studied at Coimbra. Driven into difficulties in Lisbon he enlisted in…
CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez (Aveyron) 5.4.1692 (not 1693) — Chickballapur, Karnataka ?.2.1740 (hardly 1739). S.J. French Missionary and a Pioneer of Indology. He joined the S.J. as novice in Toulouse in 1709 (not in 1720!). Ordained 1725 and left for India in 1726 and worked at Carnatic mission, in Carveypondi (near…
CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig. Wasungen, Sachsen-Meiningen 12.4.1794 — Hamburg 29.1.1851. German Schoolteacher and Philologist. Son of a deacon (later minister), educated at village school and Meiningen Lyceum. Studies of theology and philology at Jena. Worked as a tutor and from 1819 as a teacher at Johanneum in Hamburg, where, from…
CALDWELL, Robert. Clady, county Tyrone, Northern Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Indologist. Born in Ireland of poor Presbyterian Ulster Scottish parents, William Caldwell, a calico printer, and Isabella Hamilton. The family moved to Glasgow, where he had to work from the age of nine.…