WEST, Michael Philip. Bournemouth, Hampshire (or Cheltenham, Gloucestershire?) 26.9.1888 — Painswick, Gloucesterhire 19.3.1973. British Teacher in India. Son of Rev. George Herbert West (1845–1927), a Headmaster, and Florence Mary Middlemore-Whithard. After Marlborough College studies at Christ Church College, Oxford. From 1912 worked in Indian Education Service in Bengal. He did important…
WELLESZ, Emmy (née Emilia Franziska Stross) .Vienna 8.1.1889 — Vienna 13.6.1987. Austrian Art Historian. Daughter of Ludwig Stross (1852–1913), a cloth dealer, and Vilma Propper, a Jewish family. Grew up in Vienna. From 1907 studied art history at Vienna. Married 1908 Egon Wellesz (1885–1974), a composer and musicologist, with Jewish background.…
WEINRICH, Friedrich. 28.3.1905 — 8.6.1960. German Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Göttingen (or Marburg, under R. Otto?). Then at Jena Theological faculty, from 1939 as PD and 1943 as apl. Professor für Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte. During WW II in army. A Nazi. Publications: Diss. Das ‘Gokapilīyam’. Ein philosophisches Gespräch zwischen Kapila und Syūmaraśmi…
WEBB, William Wilfred. 1858 — 18.11.1911. British (Scottish?) Physician in India. Studies at Aberdeen. Joined Indian Medical Service in 1882. Surgeon-Captain of Bengal army, served in Rajasthan. Retired 1894 for health reasons. M.D. 1894. In 1893-1902 Secretary of the Army Medical School at Netley, then in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Married 1888…
WATERFIELD, William Garrow. London 14.8.1832 — Teignbridge, Devon 24.1.1907. British Civil Servant and Poet in India. Son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (1799–1862), registrar in bankruptcy court, and Elizabeth Bentall. Educated at Haileybury. Arrived in India in 1852, 1857 he was in Revenue Survey in Berhampore. In 1859-64 in financial department. After…
WARREN, John (Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren, Count de Warren). Leghorn 21.9.1769 — Pondichéry 9.2.1830. British-French Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Count Henri Hyacinthe de Warren (1732–1781) and Christine Walburge de Meurers (1737–1819). In 1793 moved to London and soon went to Calcutta. After a failed attempt…
WARD, Susan R. (formerly Benjamin, née Stone). Belcherton, MA 5.2.1822 — Calcutta 27.4.1884. American Baptist Missionary in Assam. Married 1848 Rev. Judson Benjamin (1819–1855) and came with him to Burma. They had three children, two died young After several years as widow she married 1860 Rev. William Ward (d. 1873),…
WARD, George Ernest. Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire 20.9.1837 (or 1827?) — Southsea, Hampshire 31.1.1915. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Ward (1795–1861) and Ann Merriman (1802–1844). Educated in Marlborough, studies at Queen’s College and Wadham College, Oxford. M.A. Joined I.C.S. 1861, served in North-Western Provinces (i.al. Meerut). Married 1861…
WADE, Thomas Russell. Waldron, Wealden dt., East Sussex 1839? — Eastbourne, East Sussex 23.10.1914, when 75. Rev. British Missionary in India. Educated at C.M.S. College in Islington. Arrived at Calcutta 1862, ordained there 1863. In 1862-1907 worked for Church Missionary Society in Peshawar (1862-72), Lahore (1872-76), Srinagar (1876-82), Amritsar (1882-1902) and…
WAGNER, Paul. 1868 — 1951 (?). Rev. German Missionary in India. Worked from 1895 for Gossner Mission in Purulia, Chota Nagpur. In 1915 WW I forced him back to Germany. Married 1897 Marie Hahn, the daughter of —> Ferdinand Hahn (1846–1910), children. Publications: “Some Kolarian Riddles current among the Mundaris in…