COUTO, Diogo do. Lisbon 1542 — Goa 10.12.1616. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Son of Gaspardo C. and Isabel Serrão del Castro. Educated by Jesuits, then 1559-69 and, after brief visit to Portugal again from 1571 in military service in India and the East, remaining the rest of his life…
CONGREVE, Harry. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Cadet 1827, arrived in India 1828 and joined Madras Artillery. In Europe in sick leave 1839-43. Captain 1842, Major 1854, retired as Lieutenant Colonel. No longer in service in 1878. According to Google summary a “Were Carpenter” page (which…
COLE, Henry Hardy. Kensington ?.8.1843 — Oxford 23.12.1916. British Architect and Engineer Officer in India. Son of —> Henry Cole and Marian Fairman Bond. Lieutenant, then Major. Before going to India he draw The Heights, the country house of his father in Surrey (completed 1861). From 1868 archaological surveyor, then…
CHAPMAN, Isham J. 1??? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in Ceylon. Captain of Royal Artillery. Possible relatives in I.C.S. (see Buckland). The first article is based on field observations made in 1828, the second on information obtained from others. One Captain Isham Chapman died in 1852, but the rare name…
CAUTLEY, Proby Thomas. Suffolk 3.1.1802 — Sydenham, Kent 25.1.1871. Sir. British Engineer Officer in India. Son of the Rev. Thomas C. and Catherine Proby. Some give as the place of birth Stratford St.Mary, others Roydon, where his father was rector (both are in Suffolk). Educated at Charterhouse and Addiscombe. In…
CARR, Mark William. 12.2.1833 — on Malabar coast 15.1.1871. British Colonial Officer in South India. From Northumberland, son of Sir William Carr. From 1862 Assistant Inspector General of Madras Police, from 1870 Major of Madras Staff Corps. Lost in the wreck of General Outram on Malabar coast. Publications: A Selection…
CANDY, Thomas. East Knoyle, Wiltshire 13.12.1804 — Mahabaleshwar, dt. Satara 26.2.1877. British Colonial Officer, Teacher and Marathi Scholar in India. Major. Son of Robert C. and Ann Harding, educated at Magdalene College School, Oxford. Together with his twin brother George C. (1804–1869) he joined the army and came to Bombay…
BURTON, Richard Francis. Barnham House, Hertfordshire 19.3.1821 — Trieste 20.10.1890 (Dingle & Garrett: born in Torquay, Devon, Penzer explains: born in Toquay, baptised in Elstree, Herts). Sir. British (partly of Irish origin) Oriental Scholar, Pioneer of Anthropology, Traveller and Diplomat. Son of colonel Joseph Netterville B. (1782–1857) and Martha Beckwith…
BURT, Thomas Seymour. 1805 — Cotmandene, Dorking, Surrey 8/9.3.1890. British Colonial Officer in India. Possibly from Plymouth. Educated in 1821-23 at Addiscombe. From 1824 served as lieutenant in Bengal Engineers, from 1843 Major, in 1847 dismissed. In 1840 discovered the Bairāṭ Edict (erroneously called the Bhabra Edict) of Aśoka. N.B.…
BURNEY, Henry. 27.2.1792 — at sea 4.3.1845. British Colonial Officer (Captain, 1834 Lieutenant-Colonel) and Diplomat in South-East Asia (Burma). Son of Richard Thomas and Jane B., father was the headmaster of Orphan School at Kidderpore near Calcutta. Attached to the 20th Marine N.I. served at Prince of Wales’ Island (now…