WILBERFORCE-BELL, Harold. 1885 — Portington, East Riding, Yorkshire 1956. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of elder H. Wilberforce-Bell (1849–1927, originally H. Bell) and Lucy Wilson. Educated at Ellesmere College, studies at Oxford (Pembroke College). Joined Indian army in 1905, in 1910-40 in Indian Political Service, Agent to the…
VLADIMIRCOV, Boris Jakovlevič. Kaluga 8.(20.)7.1884 — Siverskij near Leningrad 17.8.1931. Russian Mongolian and Buddhist Scholar. Academician in St.Petersburg. Son of an engineer. Graduated 1909 at St.Petersburg (Sino-Manchu section), Magistr 1911. In 1911 expedition to the Altai, then further studies in Paris (Meillet, Pelliot). From 1915 Professor of Mongolian at Petrograd/Leningrad…
TOMASCHEK, Wilhelm (Vilém Tomášek). Olmütz, Moravia (now Olomouc in Czechia) 26.5.1841 — Vienna 9.9.1901. Austrian (Czech) Geographer, Classical and Oriental Scholar. Son of gymnasium teacher Johann Adolf Tomaschek (d. 1849) and Katharina Kasparvan Radostin, a German family with Czech name. Gymnasium in Vienna. Studies of classical philology, linguistics (Fr. Müller, Miklosich),…
TANNER, Joseph Robson. Frome, Somerset 28.7.1860 — Aldeburgh, Suffolk 16.1.1931. British Historian. The eldest son of Joseph Tanner, an accountant, and Fanny Robson. Educated at Mill Hill School, London, studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, fellow 1883). Lecturer in History at St.John’s 1883-1921, also Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1885-92,…
STEWART, Charles. Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland 1764 — Bath 19.4.1837. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Captain Poyntz Stewart (1736?–1823) and Magdalen Gayer (1736–1773). In 1781 joined E.I.C.’s army as cadet. Served in Upper India and Rohilkhand. From 1800-06 taught Persian at Fort William College. In…
STEPHENS, Henry Morse. Edinburgh 3.10.1857 — Berkeley 16.4.1919. British Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of John Edward Stephens, of Indian army, and Emma Morris. Educated from 1871 at Haileybury College, studies from 1877 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1892). Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1892-94.…
SHEA, David. Limerick county 1777 — Haileybury 10.5.1836. British (Irish) Persian Scholar. Professor at Haileybury. Son of Daniel Shea, a farmer. Studied Classics at Trinity College in Dublin from 1793, in 1798 expelled as nationalist, having refused an oath to government, and went to England. He worked as tutor in…
SALLET, Alfred Friedrich Constantin von. Reichau bei Nimptsch, Silesia (now Zarzyca near Niemcza in Poland) 19.7.1842 — Berlin 25.11.1897. German Numismatist. Son of poet Friedrich von Sallet (1812–1843) and Caroline von Burgsdorff, in 1849 mother remarried Theodor Paur, a Dante scholar and politician. Gymnasium in Breslau and Görlitz, developed early an interest…
PRÁŠEK, Justin Václav. Brandýs nad Labem 7.8.1853 — Klánovice near Prague 23.12.1923 (Kdo byl kdo, Wikipedia has Brandýs 24.12.1924). Czech Historian of Ancient Iran. Studied history and classics at Prague, Ph.D. 1882. Worked as gymnasium teacher in Pardubice, Klatovy and Kolín. From 1885 further studies at Munich and Berlin, then…
MORIARTY, Gerald Patrick. Dieppe, France 1.4.1863 — Cambridge 21.6.1924. British (Irish?) Historian. Son of physician Stephen Stack Moriarty (1805–1869) and Herbert Maria Stack, educated at Brighton College. From 1881 studies at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1885). Worked as tutor in Oxford, then from 1895 I.C.S. teacher and 1897-1924 University Teacher…