TUFNELL, Robert Hutchinson Campbell (Tuffnell). 1852 — 1908. British Colonial Officer in South India. Son of Thomas Robert Tufnell, a businessman, and Frances Howard Hutchinson. Studied from 1870 at Oxford (Exeter College), then joined army. Captain (1888), served mainly in South India. Participated in Afghan wars. Retired as Major. Married 1878 Mary…
TRAILL, John. Brechin, Angus 4.7.1841 — Udaipur 21.9.1909. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Ordained 1869. From 1872 worked in Jaipur, Ajmer and Udaipur for the United Free Church of Scotland. Married Janet Kirk (d. 1876), four daughters (two twins) and one son. Publications: “Dadu, Dadupanthis”, E.R.E. 4, 1911, 385f. Sources: myheritage and…
TRACY, James Edward. Pasumalai, Tamil Nadu 4.7.1850 — Kodaikanal 4.8.1923. Rev. U.S. Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. William Tracy (1807–1877), of the Madura Mission, and Emily Frances Travelli (1811–1979). Studied in the U.S.A., M.A. Married 1877 before going to India, arrived there just before his father’s death. Like…
TOWERS, Robert Mason. Grange, County Tipperary 29.6.1840 — Cambridge 16.4.1907. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Robert Towers. School in Kilkenny. Studies at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A.), then in I.C.S. From 1874 Judge in Bhagalpur and Monghyr. Retired. From 1888 Professor of Bengali at King’s College, London and…
TORRENS, Henry D’Oyley (D’Oyly). Meerut 24.2.1833 — London 1.12.1889. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> H. W. Torrens (1806–1852) and Eliza Mary Roberts (1808–1834). Joined army in 1849, Colonel 1864, Major-General 1869 and Lieutenant-General 1884. Served in Crimean war and in 1857 uprising. Travels in Ladakh, etc.…
TOMASCHEK, Wilhelm (Vilém Tomášek). Olmütz, Moravia (now Olomouc in Czechia) 26.5.1841 — Vienna 9.9.1901. Austrian (Czech) Geographer, Classical and Oriental Scholar. Son of gymnasium teacher Johann Adolf Tomaschek (d. 1849) and Katharina Kasparvan Radostin, a German family with Czech name. Gymnasium in Vienna. Studies of classical philology, linguistics (Fr. Müller, Miklosich),…
TOLBORT, Thomas William Hooper. Dorchester (?) 1842 — Dorchester 1883, when 41. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Hooper Tolbort (1804–1842) and his wife Joanna (1805–1873). I.C.S. examination in 1862. Served in Bengal. Retired for health reasons and returned to the U.K., but died soon. A friend of Thomas…
TIMMER, Barbara Catharina Jacoba. Haarlem 22.11.1896 — Amsterdam 16.9.1978. Dutch Student of Classics and Indology. Daughter of neurologist Jan Timmer (1857–1933) and Anna Maria Loman (1857–1936). After school in Haarlem studies of Greek under Cohen and Indology under Faddegon at Amsterdam, also attended Vogel’s classes at Leiden. Ph.D. 1930 Amsterdam. Her…
THORNTON, Edward Parry. 7.10.1811 — London 10.12.1893. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Thornton of Clapham and Eliza Parry. Educated at Haileybury and Charterhouse, joined Bengal C.S. in 1830. Served in Goruckpore (Gorakhpur), in 1842-45 on furlough in England. Then Magistrate and Collector in Mathura, from 1848 in Serampore.…
THOMPSON, Charles Stewart. Easington, Durham 17.8.1851 — Kerwara, Chhatarpur dt., M.Pr. 19.5.1900. Rev. British Medical Missionary in India. Son of farmer George Thompson and his wife Elizabeth. Medical training at Islington College. Ordained priest in 1880 and sent to India by Church Missionary Society, stationed at Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana,…