CHRÉTIEN, Charles Douglas. 20.8.1904 — Berkeley 3.11.1969. U.S. Linguist. Studies at Hamilton College (A.B. and A.M.), then three years Instructor there. Graduate studies at Harvard, A.M. 1931 and Ph.D. 1932. From 1931 Instructor at Berkeley and, after interruption caused by war (he served in Navy in the Pacific), from 1951…
CHENEVIX TRENCH, Charles Godfrey. 30.12.1877 — 1.9.1964. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel Charles Chenevix Trench (1839–1933) and Emily Mary Lefroy. Educated at Loretto School, East Lothian. Studies at Oxford (Lincoln College, B.A.). From 1900 served in I.C.S., finally Settlement Commissioner, Mewar State, until retirement in 1910…
CHADWICK, Hector Munro. Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire 22.10.1870 — Cambridge 2.1.1947. British Linguist and Philologist. Professor in Cambridge. The youngest child of Rev. Edward Chadwick and Sarah Anne Bates. Educated at Bradford and Wakefield Grammar Schools, from 1889 studies at Cambridge. B.A. 1892, from 1893 Fellow at Clare College, 1903-11 also Librarian…
CASTRO, João de. Lisbon 27.2.1500 — Goa 6.6.1548. Portuguese Nobleman, fourth Viceroy of Portuguese India. Second son of Álvaro de Castro, the civil governor of Lisbon, and Leonor de Noronha. Originally he was destined for a church career and studied for this, but when 18 he went to Tangier and…
CASTAGNÉ, Joseph-Antoine. Gaillac (Tarn) 27.11.1875 — Montpellier 19.1.1958. French Traveller, long time in Russian Central Asia (Uzbekistan). Studied in Toulouse (licence). From 1893 teacher of French in In Pjatigorskij and from 1902 in Orenburg near Kazakh Steppe, soon started a collection of antiquities. From 1912 as teacher in Tashkent actively…
CARTY, Pierre. Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) 4.8.1876 — India 27.6.1950. S.J. Father. French Missionary in South India. After school in Pau studies at Bordeaux (B.Sc.). Now joined the Madura Mission of Toulouse Jesuit Province and arrived on 6.10.1894 at Trichinopoli (Tirucci), where he had his final education and began himself teaching in…
CAPPER, John. Lambeth, Surrey 29.9.1814 — Fulham, Middlesex 31.3.1898. British Journalist and Writer in Sri Lanka. Son of Benjamin Pitts Capper and Maria Margaret Bessell. In 1837 he joined a coffee wholesale business and was sent to Ceylon. He was interested in journalism and in 1840 founded short-lived (to 1842)…
CANEDO GRILLE, José. Tordoia, Galicia 22.2.1902 — Lens, Ames, prov. Coruña 29.12.1945. Spanish Linguist. Studies at seminary of Santiago de Compostela and at University of Granada, then 7 years IE, Indology and classics at Berlin. In the Spanish civil war he took Franco’s side. From 1943 taught Spanish at Heidelberg University.…
CANDOLLE, Bertrand de. 1929 — 1999. Swiss, probably Catholic Missionary. Musée d’ethnographie de Génève has Indian material donated by him, but his personality is evasive. One page in the popups.uliege.be gives name, life years and connection with the same museum (without mentioning India or his profession), another has the same…
CAMPBELL, Joseph John. White Plains, NY 26.3.1904 — Honolulu 30.10.1987. U.S. Scholar of Literature and Comparative Mythology and Religion. Son of hosiery importer and wholesaler Charles William C. (of Irish background) and Josephine Lynch, a Catholic middle class family, grew up in New Rochelle, NY. Graduated 1921 from Canterbury School in…