CŒDÈS, George (Georges). Paris 10.8.1886 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 2.10.1969. French South-East Asian Scholar (Historian and Epigraphist). Son of bank director Hippolyte Cœdès (1845–1917) and Marie Carette. The family is sometimes claimed to have Hungarian Jewish origin, but according to Wikipedia his ancestors were already living in Strasbourg before 1740. Educated at…
CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — Appledore, Devon 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and Art Historian of India. Son of Lieutenant (then Major-General) Harry de Burgh Codrington (1866–1939) of Indian army and Helen Maud Vaughan (1870–1915), grew up in the North-West Frontier. Educated at Sherborne School and Cadet College, Wellington. Studies…
CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. Hambleden, Buckinghamshire 25.9.1879 — Kensington, London 7.11.1942. British Civil Servant and Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of the rear-admiral William Codrington (1832–1888) and Mary Auber Leach (1855–1930), nephew of —> Oliver Codrington (1837–1921). Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford (B.A.). In 1903…
CHILDE, Vere Gordon. Sydney 14.4.1892 — Blackheath, NSW, Australia 19.10.1957. Australian Archaeologist and Historian in the U.K. Son of the Rev. Stephen Henry Childe (1844–1923) and Harriet Eliza Gordon (1853–1910), a middle-class English migrant family. Educated at Church of England Grammar School in Sydney, studied classics at Sydney University. In…
CHAVANNES, Émmanuel-Édouard. Lyon 5.10.1865 — Paris 29.1.1918. French Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Born in a Protestant family, son of Frédéric.Émile Chavannes (1836–1909, an engineer) and Blanche Dapples (1844–1865, died after his birth). Educated in Lausanne, Lyon and Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand). In 1885-88 studies at École normale supérieure (agrégé 1888). Now…
CHAMBERS, William. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 21.11.1748 — Calcutta 22.8.1793. British Colonial Official and a Pioneer of Indology. Son of Robert Chambers (1705?–1749), an attorney in Newcastle, and Anne Metcalf (1713–1782), younger brother of —> Robert Chambers (1737–1823). Educated in Newcastle. Went to India before 1774. Political servant of E.I.C., apparently first in…
CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de. Santarem c. 1500 — Coimbra 23.3. or 6.6.1559. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Illegitimate son of Lopo Fernandez de Castanheda, royal officer, of an old family. In 1528 he accompanied his father to Goa. During ten years in India he visited Portuguese bases as far as…
CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — Achnashie, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnography and History. Son of Rev. John Mcleod Campbell (1800–1872, D.D.) and Mary Campbell. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (M.A. 1866), passed I.C.S. examination 1867. Went to Bombay in…
CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington, PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Son of William Byers Cameron (1873–1965) and Elizabeth Smith (1870–1950). Educated in 1923-25 at Washington and Jefferson College, 1925-27 at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio (A.B. 1927), then studies…
CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis (Oise) 26.4.1843 — Paris 1.2.1921. French Archaeologist and Historian with early interest in Comparative Linguistics. After school in Senlis studied law and linguistic in Paris (É.P.H.É. & É.L.O.V.), later turned to archaeology. Son of Léon de Caix de Saint-Aymour (maire of Ognon) and Louise…