SHIRREFF, Alexander Grierson. Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset 24.4.1883 — Walberswick, Suffolk 2.9.1962. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Archibald Patullo Shirreff and Elizabeth Louisa Davidson. B.A. I.C.S. officer, in the 1930s Collector of Jaunpur. Married Dulcie Marion Baxter (1892–1973), children. Publications: With Pannā Lāl: The Dream Queen: a translation of the Svapnavasavadatta of…
SETON-KARR, Walter Scott. 23.1.1822 — West Brompton, London 22.11.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Andrew Seton-Karr (d. 1832), of Roxburghshire (Scotland) and formerly of I.C.S., and Alicia Anne Rawlinson. He was a godson of Walter Scott. Educated at Rugby. Served from 1848 in Bengal in judicial and political offices.…
SCRAFTON, Luke. 1732 (?) — at sea near Cape of Good Hope 1770. Britishman in E.I.C.’s service. In 1756 in Dacca prisoner of the Nawab of Bengal. Then assisted Clive. After the Battle of Plassey Resident at Durbar of Murshidabad, then in Calcutta Council. Back in the U.K. one of…
SCOTT, James George. Dairsie, Fife 25.12.1851 — Petworth, West Sussex 4.4.1935. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Journalist in Burma. Son of George Scott (1800–1861), a Presbyterian minister, and Mary Forsythe. Lost early his father, educated in Stuttgart and Cambridge. The loss of family fortune forced him to interrupt his…
SCANLAN, Charles Arthur Rose. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India (?). In 1872/79 he was Assistant Surveyor in Topographical Survey of India, Calcutta, worked in Gwalior and Central India. Publications: “Notes on the Gonds met with in the Sâtphurâ Hills, Central Provinces”, IA 1, 1872, 54-56; “Notes on the Sharias”, Ibid. 159f. Sources: Nothing…
SAMMAN, Herbert Frederick. 1871 — 1940. British Civil Servant in India. Educated in Stratford-on-Avon, studies at Cambridge (Emanuel College). In 1892-1919 served in Bengal. In 1922-35 Lecturer in Bengali at Cambridge. Married 1899 Emily Savage, at least one son. Publications: Wrote on cotton industry of Assam. Sources: Indian Biogr. Dict. 1915,…
RUSSELL, Robert Vane. Weymouth, Dorset 8.8.1873 — off the coast of Crete 30.12.1915. British Ethnologist in India. Son of Charles Robert Tilden Russell (1842–1918), a navy officer, and Cecilia (Cissie) Hutton-Potts (1852–1914). Educated at Winchester College, then studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1893 joined I.C.S. Superintendent in 1901 census,…
RICHARDS, Frederick John. 26.6.1875 — 19??. British Civil Servant and Archaeologist in India. Son of John Richards and his wife Sarah. M.A. Joined I.C.S. in 1898, served in Madras Presidency. Long time in Salem. As Collector of Bangalore (1909-13) he founded with Tabard in 1909 the Mythic Society. In 1923 member…
ROGERS, Alexander. 1825/26 — 27.11.1910. British Civil Servant and Persian Scholar in India. Educated at Haileybury, in 1845 joined Bombay Civil Service, served in Northern Division. Collector and Magistrate 1860, Commissioner 1865, Member of Council 1872, retired 1879. Married 1847 Jane Georgina Davison (b. 1828), six daughters and three sons.…
ROBERTSON, Elphinstone Pourtales. 1831 — Middlesex 30.1.1912. British Civil Servant in India. Educated at Haileybury. Arrived at Bombay in 1851, worked in Surat, Ahmedabad, Colaba, etc. in Gujarat, from 1869 in Dharwar. From 1876 Revenue and Police Commissioner for Southern Division, 1878 Commissioner of Central Division. Retired 1886. Publications: Vocabulary English…