BOGLE, George. Daldowie on Clyde near Glasgow 26.11.1746 — Calcutta 3.4.1781. British (Scottish) Traveller and Diplomat. Youngest son of George Bogle (1700–1784), an important Glasgow merchant, and Ann Sinclair, mother died when he was 17. Educated at Haddington, Glasgow, then at Edinburgh University. After four years in family business joined…
BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo 1844 — London 2.6.1889. British (Irish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Dr. Barcroft Boake of Dublin (1814–1876), Principal of Colombo Academy in 1842-70, and Mary Katherine Slade (d. 1860). Obtained Lic. Med. of Trinity College, Dublin, and Diploma of Medicine and Surgery,…
BLAQUIERE, William Coates. 1759 (?) — Calcutta 14.8.1853. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Jacques/Jacob Blaquiere (1726–1791). Came to India with his merchant father in 1777. He is said then to be of 13, which makes the year of birth too early (note also the late death). Worked then…
BEVERIDGE, Henry. Inzievar, Fife 9.2.1837 — London 8.11.1929. British (Scottish) Historian of Mughal and Colonial India. Son of the elder —> Henry Beveridge (1799–1863). Educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, studies at Glasgow University and from 1856 at Queen’s College in Belfast. Joined the I.C.S. through competition in 1857, and served…
BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus. India, Bombay Presidency 9.10.1822 — Red Sea 23.3.1872. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lt.-Col. Daniel Hutchins Bellasis (1785–1836) and Mary Tadman. In Bombay Presidency from 1842, served as Collector and Magistrate of Hyderabad (Sind) and finally President of the Harbour and Pilot Board in Bombay.…
BELL, Harry Charles Purvis. India 21.9.1851 — Kandy 6.9.1937. British Archaeologist of Sri Lanka. Son of General Harry Wainwright Bell (1821–1888) of Irish/Scottish descent, and Harriet Croker. From 1864 educated at Cheltenham College, but never went to a university. From 1873 in Ceylon Civil service, served in various positions, finally…
BELL, Charles Alfred. Calcutta 31.10.1870 — Oak Bay, Victoria, B.C. 8.3.1945. Sir. British Tibetan Scholar, Traveller, and Civil Servant in India. Born as a son of a civil servant (in India) Henry Bell and his wife Anne, educated at Winchester and Oxford (New College). In 1891 joined Indian service in…
BEAMES, John William. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a Pioneer of Comparative NIA Studies. Served in India in 1858-93. The eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Beames (1815–1864) and Susanna Amelia Dewsnap (1811–1868). Educated first at Merchant Taylor’s School, then 1856-57 at…
BAYLEY, Edward Clive. St.Petersburg 17.10.1821 — Keymer, Sussex 30.4.1884. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Antiquarian Studies. Son of Edward Clive Bayley (1776–1841) of Manchester, merchant in St.Petersburg, and Margaret Fenton, educated at Haileybury. Served in India in 1842-54 and 1857-78. In 1842 he came to India, spent…
BAINES, Jervoise Athelstan. Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire 17.10.1847 — 26.11.1925. Sir. British Civil Servant in India and an Ethnologist. Son of the Rev. Edward Baines and his wife Catherine Eulalia Baines. Educated at Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Served in the I.C.S. in Bombay 1870-89. Then Census Commissioneer under the Government of…