CELLARIUS, Johan Adam

CELLARIUS, Johan Adam. Ulm 1740 — Cochin (Kochi) 15.6.1796. Dutch (Germann-born) Colonial Servant in India. Son of Johann Jacob Cellarius and Maria Müller (?). Entered in 1762 the Dutch E.I.C.’s service as corporal and was stationed in Cochin, but soon moved to mercantile department, first in Batavia, soon in Malabar.…

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CANDY, Edward Townshend

CANDY, Edward Townshend. Poona (Pune) 15.4.1845 — ?.4.1913. Sir (1904). British Civil Servant in India. Son of —> Thomas Candy (1803–1877) and Caroline Boyce. Educated at Cheltenham College. M.A. Entered Bombay C.S. 1865, retired 1903. “Judicial Assistant to the Political Agent, Kattiawar, 1872-82: officiating Judicial Commissioner in Sind, 1886-7: Vice-chancellor…

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CAMPBELL, Archibald (younger)

CAMPBELL, Archibald. Kilcalmonell and Bilberry, Argyll 18.1.1877 – London 24.4.1963. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John Campbell (1844–1908) and Margaret Lloyd. Educated at Harrow, studies at Cambridge (Pembroke College). M.A. Served in I.C.S. 1900-28, retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore (1921-28). In retirement soon…

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BOYLE, John Archibald

BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845 — Palamcotta, Madras 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South India. Son of Rev. Edward Fitzmaurice Boyle, vicar of Hammersmith. Educated at Radley College (Oxfordshire), until 1858. From 1865 in Madras Civil Service. Publications: “Telugu Ballad Poetry”, IA 3, 1874, 1-6; “Notes on castes in Southern India”,…

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BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie

BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie. India (bapt. in Calcutta) 26.10.1835 — Kensington, London 6.1.1872. British (Scottish) Colonial Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Robert Bruce Boswell (1804–1860) and Susan Anne Carnegie (1813?–1892). From 1855 in Madras Civil Service. In the early 1870s the Officiating Collector of the Kistnah district, but…

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BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry

BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry. Curepipe, Mauritius 14.3.1877 — Fleet, Hampshire 29.5.1941. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Frances Theophilus Blunt (1837–1881, later Commissioner of the Seychelles) and Emily Rainsford. Educated at Marlborough College, then studies at Corpus Christi College (Oxford, B.A.) and University College (London). From 1901 served…

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BLAKESLEY, Thomas H.

BLAKESLEY, Thomas Holmes. Ware, Hertsfordshire 8.7.1847 — London 13.2.1929. British Civil Engineer and Scientist also interested in Archaeology. Son of Rev. Joseph Williams Blakesley (1808–1885), later Dean of Lincoln, and Margaret Wilson Holmes. Educated in Smithfield, studies at King’s College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1869. Then 1871 B.A. in civil…

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BARROW, George

BARROW, George. Mayfair, London 22.10.1806 — West Molesey, Surrey 27.2.1876. Sir, 2nd Baronet. British Civil Servant. Son of Sir John Barrow (1764–1848), first Bart., a geographer, linguist and historian, and Anna Maria Truter (1777–1857), a botanical artist. Educated at Charterhouse. From 1825 Clerk at Colonial Office, Senior Clerk 1843, Chief…

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BARROS, João de

BARROS, João de. Vila Verde, Viseu, Portugal 1496? — Ribeira de Litém near Pombal 20.10.1570. Portuguese Humanist, Civil Servant, and Contemporary Historian of Early Colonial India. Illegitimate son of nobleman Lopo de Barros (1447–1501) from Northern Portugal and Isabel Leonoe de Figueirido (but Wikipedia says that “nothing is known of…

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BANESS, Joshua Frederick

BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Delhi 30.1.1830 — Simla 7.6.1884. British Civil Servant in India. Born in India, son of Athanes Baness (1802–1845) ja Harriet Lumley (1808–1880), the surname Baness is Scottish. Surveyor and Chief Draftsman in Geographical and Drawing Branch of the Survey of India (1881).Married 1856 Marie Knight (b. 1832)…

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