HAVELOCK, Henry. Bishopwearmouth (Sunderland), Durham 5.4.1795 — Dilkusha, Lucknow 25.11.1857. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. Son of William H., a wealthy shipbuilder, and Jane Carter. “Educated at Swanscombe and the Charterhouse; entered the Middle Temple for the bar, but in 1815 went into the Army, studied military works…
HAUGHTON, Graves Champney. Dublin 1788 — St.Cloud near Paris 28.8. 1849. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Indologist. Son of the physician John H. (originating from a Lancashire family), educated in England. Obtained a cadetship in Bengal army and left for India in 1808. Soon learned Hindi. In 1812 he got…
HART, Eric George. Mangalore 6.2.1878 — 8.10.1946. British Colonial Officer in India, then Professor in Dublin. Son of Henry H., M.B.E. Educated at Victoria College in Jersey and at Wellington College. Joined the army and in 1900-01 served in China, 1901-02 in Makran, 1904 in Aden, in 1906 joined Indian…
HARRISON, Hugh. 18?? — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-colonel. Back in England he was in 1924-28 Lecturer in Hindi and Marathi at Caius College in Cambridge. Publications: ??. Sources: Not found in any combination in Google.
HANNAY, Simon Fraser. Inverness 12.11.1801 — Dibrugarh, Assam 30.1.1861. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Henry H. (1766–1822) and Helen Fraser (1777–1815). From 1820 Ensign in Bengal Light Infantry. From 1836 served in Assam, in 1839-61 commander of the 1st Assam Light Infantry. Colonel. Pioneer of Assam tea…
HAMILTON, Charles. Belfast 1752/53 — Hampstead, London 14.3.1792, when 39. British Colonial Officer in India. Probably son of Charles H., a merchant (d. 1759), and Katherine Mackay (d. 1767). Worked two years in a Dublin mercantile house, then “went to India in the E.I.C.’s military service in 1776; was one…
HAMILTON, Alexander. 3.10.1762 — Liverpool 30.12.1824. British (Scottish) Pioneer of Indology. Born in Scotland (if not in India), son of William H., a merchant in Greenock (Inverclyde), and Jean Donald, and grandson of Alexander H., Laird of Grange in Ayrshire, brother of Major Walter Hamilton (1779–1818), who also wrote on…
HAIG, Thomas Wolseley. Plumstead, Woolwich, Kent 7.8.1865 — Kensington, London 23.4./28.4./4.5.1938. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Historian of India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Major Robert Wolseley Haig (of old Scottish family, 1830–1872) and Maria Brown. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. In 1884 joined Senforth Highlanders, 1887 Indian Army. Served also…
HADLEY, George. 174? — London 10.9.1798. British Colonial Officer in India, Author of the first Hindūstānī Grammar in English. He joined the E.I.C.’s Bengal Army as a cadet in 1763, Lieutenant 1764, Captain 1766, retired 1771. In order to understand the sepoys, he compiled a Hindūstānī grammar and an English–…
GURDON, Philip Richard Thornhagh. West Bengal 2.2.1863 — Totnes, Devon28.12.1942. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Ethnographist in India. Son of Major-General Evelyn Pulteney G. and Jane Mary Sandeman. Major and Superintendent of Ethnography in Assam (1907), then Lieutenant-Colonel and the Officiating Commissioner of the Assam Valley, and Honorary Director of Ethnography…