WARD, Charles Henry Spurgeon. Halton by Leeds, Yorkshire 21.7.1876 — Wells, Somerset 17.3.1957. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Amos Ward and Zilpah Whitaker. Married 1906 in Sri Lanka Mabel Jane Straughan Lawrence (d. 1937), children. Later on returned to the U.K. His 1934/47 book is based on…
WARD, Benjamin Swain. 1786 — Cape Town 19.6.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Francis Swain Ward (1736–1794). Lieutenant of Madras infantry. In 1799-1810 worked under C. Mackenzie in Mysore survey. Together with Ltn. P. E. Conner conducted the survey of Travancore and Cochin 1810-21. He was also an…
WALKER, George David. 23.9.1884 — 19??. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Deputy Commissioner of Garo Hills in 1923-29. In 1938 apparently still in Assam. Publications: A dictionary of the Mikir language. 462 p. Shillong 1925. – “The Garo Manufacture of Bark Cloth”, Man 27, 1927, 15f. Sources: Scanty stray notes in…
WALKER, Alexander. Collessie, Fife 12.5.1764 — Edinburgh 5.4.1831. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Eldest son of Rev. William Walker (1736–1771) of Church of Scotland, and Margaret Manderston (1728–1810), the father died when the boy was seven. Education and studies at St.Andrews. E.I.C.’s cadet 1780, served in Bombay. In 1785…
WACHSBERGER, Arthur. Troppau, Silesia (now Opava in Czech) 7.5.1891 — Haifa 1943. Austrian Art Historian and Architect. Son of a Jewish merchant. After school in Troppau studied at Vienna. Ph.D. 1914 Vienna (under Strzygowski). Moved to Köln, worked as Assistant in Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst. Served in WW I as…
VREEDE-DE STUERS, Cora (née Suzanne Coralie Lucipara de Stuers). Bodegraven, South Holland 29.11.1909 — Baarn, prov. Utrecht 11.11.2002. Dutch Sociologist. Daughter of Eugène de Stuers, director of machine industry, and Susanna Teding van Berkhout. Educated in Utrecht, in 1928-35 studied art history, Malay and ethnology in Paris. In 1936 travelled…
VIRIEUX, Eugène. 1861 — 31.10.1923. Swiss Priest. Lic.théol. Ordained 1884. Pastor in Rougemont from 1885, in Champvent 1886, again in Rougemont 1889 and from 1894 until death in Crassier (Vaud). Publications: Le Bouddha, sa vie et sa doctrine: essai d’histoire des religions. 104 p. Lausanne & P. 1884 (inferior to Christianity).…
VERWEY, Anthony Hendrik Nicolaas. ’s-Gravenhage 14.4.1918 — Leiden 7.1.2001. Dutch Anthropologist specialized in India and Tibet. Studied Law and Indology at Amsterdam and Leiden. In 1947-81 working in Ethnological Museum, Leiden. His main interests were: material evidence of popular Hinduism and Tibetan religion. Publications: Tentoonstelling: Pabuji, een Indiase held, zijn verhaal…
TUCKER, Thomas George. Burnham, Buckinghamshire 29.3.1859 — Stope Cove, Devon 24.1.1946. British Classical Scholar in Australia. Professor in Melbourne. Son of Charles Tucker, agent, and Elizabeth Rolfe. Educated in Northampton and Lancaster, studies at Cambridge (St. John’s College, Fellow 1882). M.A. 1885. From 1883 Professor of Classics and English at…
TROST, Paul/Pavel. Šternberg, Moravia 3.10.1907 — Prague 6.1.1987. Czech IE, Slavic and German Linguist. Son of engineer Karl and Paula Trost, a Catholic family. Professor in Prague. Gymnasium in Brno, studies of IE and general, Romance, Germanic and Slavic linguistics at Prague German University in 1928-34. Ph.D. 1934 Prague, under…