STAPLETON, Henry Ernest. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire (?) 3.5.1878 — St.Brelade, Jersey 12.2.1962. British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Science. Son of Rev. Henry Stapleton and Matilda Merritt. Educated at Bradford Grammar School. Studies at Oxford, M.A. and B.Sc. (in Chemistry, 1899). In 1900, after one year as research scholar at…
ST. BARBE, Henry Lewis (Louis, born as H. L. St.B. Browne). 1849? — ?.3.1886. British Civil Servant in Burma. Son of Colonel William Browne of Sidmouth, Devon. Educated at Rugby. Studies at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1868 (when 19). In 1870 joined I.C.S. and changed his name. Political Agent at…
SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke. Walcot, Somerset 6.11.1792 — Calcutta 1.2.1844. British Lawyer in India. Son of Andrew Sutherland (1745–1795), an officer, and Louisa Colebrooke (1764–1849), sister of —> H. T. Colebrooke (1765–1837), grew up in the house of his uncle James Edward Colebrooke. Member of I.C.S. and a lawyer, from…
STRANGE, Thomas William Lumisden. Madras 4.1.1808 — Norwood, London 4.9.1884. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in India. Son of —> Thomas A. L. Strange (1756–1841) and Louisa Burroughs. “Educated at Westminster and Haileybury, 1824-26. Joined the Madras Civil Service, 1826. Was Commissioner to inquire into the Moplah disturbances in Malabar, 1852.…
STRANGE, Thomas Andrew Lumisden. London (?) 30.11.1756 — London 16.7.1841. Sir. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in India. Son of Sir Robert Strange (1721–1792), an eminent engraver, and Isabella Lumsden. Educated at Westminster School and Oxford (Christ Church, B.A. 1778, M.A. 1782). Called to the bar from Lincoln’s Inn in…
STOKES, Whitley. Dublin 28.2.1830 — Kensington, London 13.4.1909. Irish Lawyer and Linguist (Celtic Scholar). Son of Dr. William Stokes (1804–1878), Professor of Physics at Dublin, and Mary Black. Educated at St.Columba’s College. From 1846 studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Siegfried’s student, graduated B.A. 1851. Possibly for a while at Edinburgh,…
SMITH, Vincent Arthur. Dublin 3.6.1848 — Oxford 6.2.1920. British (Irish) Indologist, Historian and Art Historian of India, in India (1871–1900) and the U.K. Son of Aquilla Smith (1806–1890), a physician and noted numismatist and archaeologist, and Esther Faucett (d. 1850). Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1868) and Cambridge (M.A.).…
SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. Cahir, county Tipperary 23.12.1847 — Les Bosquets, Aix-en-Provence 8.12.1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine (1820–1886), a retired officer in Wimbledon, and Mary Ann Auchmuty Bennett. Educated at Blackheath School; entered the I.C.S. 1868, served in Bengal and Bihar. In the 1880s…
SKEEN, William. London 1822 — Sri Lanka 1872. British Printer in Sri Lanka, the first officially appointed Government Printer for Ceylon in 1849-72. From 1860 also had a photographic studio in Colombo. Married with Louisa Matilda Kemp (1822–1864), three sons worked as printers and photographers in Sri Lanka and Burma,…
SHAW, William. 1889 — 19??. British (Irish) Civil Servant in North-East India. In 1919-27 subdivisional officer (1923 chief executive officer) in Tamenglong in north-western part of the Manipur State and thus knew well Nagas and Kukis. Publications: “Notes on the Thadou Kukis”, JASB 24, 1928, 1-175, 7 pl., map, also separately…