COLLET, Charles. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. In Madras C.S. Sub-Collector in Malabar (1855), when his superior, H. V. Conolly, was murdered, and reported the events. Moved later to Madras and wrote the Reader there. In 1866 Ch. Collet of Madras C.S. was nominated a High Court…
COLE, Frederick Thomas. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. First in Agra, from 1873 in Santal Mission of Church Missionary Society in Taljhari, Rajmahal, until at least 1880. In 1891 in England, apparently living in 1900. Married. Publications: “Santâli Folklore”, IA 4, 1875, 10-12, 257-259; “Santali Riddles”, IA 4,…
COHN-WIENER, Ernst (until 1907 Ernst Cohn). Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk in Russia) 25.12.1882 — New York 13.4.1941. German Historian of Asian Art. Son of Alfred Cohn and Helene Wiener. Matriculated 1902 from Bromberg (Bydgoszcz in Poland), then studies of art history at Berlin and Heidelberg, where Ph.D. 1907. From 1908…
COCKBURN, John. 1852 — Dehra Dun 14.10.1902. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. In 1879 characterized as “late Curator of the Allahábád Museum, Officiating Assistant Osteologist, Indian Museum, Calcutta.” Worked in Indian Museum in 1879-83, from 1884 Assistant Sub-Deputy Opium Agent in Opium Department. Publications: “Notes on Stone…
CLINT, Leonidas J. St.Anns Soho, Middlesex 1812 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire 21.7.1897. Rev. British Teacher in India. Graduated M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Principal of La Martinière College in Lucknow c. 1845-54, then of Krishnanagar College in Bengal. Returned to England in 1857 he was ordained deacon 1859 and priest 1861.…
CLEMENTS, Ernest S. Camberwell, Surrey 1873 — 19??. Sir. British Civil Servant and Musicologist in India. From 1891 studies at Oxford (Christ Church), soon joined I.C.S. District Judge in Satara (1910), then in Dharwar (1918). Still active in London in 1937. As an early Western student of Indian music his…
CLARKE, Annie Barber (born Annie Leland Barber). Deerfield, MA 9.6.1861 —19.11.1956. U.S. Teacher and Suffragist, former Student of Indology. Daughter of Rev. Henry Hervey Barber (1835–1923, D.D.) and Elizabeth Pratt. Studied in 1883-86 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. A.M. 1891. For five years…
CLARKSON, William. Salisbury 1817 — 1897. Rev. British Missionary of London Missionary Society in Gujarat in 1839-48. Returned to England and became minister at Folkestone. Apparently there was another W. Clarkson, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, also in Gujarat, but in the second half of the 19th…
CINNOMA, Leonardo. 1??? — 1644. Father. Italian (?) Catholic Missionary in India. Publications: A grammar and dictionary of Kannaḍa, publ. Goa 1674 (some say 1774), some religious works. Sources: The work often briefly mentioned, e.g. in V.K. Gokak, Literatures in Modern Indian Languages. Delhi 1967, 107. These may all hail…
CHRISTOPHER, Willmott. 1??? — Multan, buried 9.10.1848. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant of Indian Navy, in 1834-35 participated the British Admiralty Survey of the Maldives and with A. Young remained there, when the ship returned, and spent several weeks in Male. Beside other notes he collected the vocabulary which…