VAILLANT, Louis Auguste André Marie. Paris 26.11.1876 — Arras (Pas-de-Calais) 18.2.1963. French Army Physician, Naturalist and Explorer. Son of Léon Louis Vaillant (1834–1914), Professor of Zoology, and Henriette Jeanne Hovius. Studied medicine at Bordeaux, graduated 1902 and became physician in French colonial army. In 1906-08 he travelled with Pelliot and Nouette…
THOMPSON, Charles Stewart. Easington, Durham 17.8.1851 — Kerwara, Chhatarpur dt., M.Pr. 19.5.1900. Rev. British Medical Missionary in India. Son of farmer George Thompson and his wife Elizabeth. Medical training at Islington College. Ordained priest in 1880 and sent to India by Church Missionary Society, stationed at Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana,…
SWINEY, John. Edmonton, Middlesex 1783? — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 24.12.1870. British Physician in India. Dr.med. In Indian Medical Service, served over 36 years (until 1838?), and then lived for 33 years more (possibly in New South Wales). Twice married (2nd time 1835 in Calcutta). In Karnal he achieved a large collection…
SPITTEL, Richard Lionel. Tangalle, Sri Lanka 9.12.1881 — Colombo 3.9.1969. British Physician, Anthropologist and Author in Sri Lanka, a Pioneer of Vedda Research. Son of Dr. Frederick George Spittel, of Ceylon Health Service, and Zilla Jansz. After Colombo Royal College and Ceylon Medical College trained in 1906-09 as surgeon in…
SMART, Bath Charles. 1838 — 1887. British Physician interested in Gipsy Language. M.D. Worked in Manchester. Married Elizabeth Gurteen, widower 1867. Publications: The Dialect of the English Gypsies. 1863, 2nd rev. & enl. ed. with Henry Thomas Crofton. 23+302 p. L. 1875. Sources: Wikisource, wife’s name and death in Medical Journal, no…
SEYMOUR, Lionel William. Bombay 6.12.1855 — Surrey 15.4.1936. British Physician in India. Son of the elder L. W. Seymour, a colonial officer, and Catharine Burton. Worked in Bombay Civil Service, in 1905 returned to the U.K. Worked as physician. Married 1890 in Karachi Amy Elizabeth Clark, four sons. Publications: A Grammar of…
REGEL, Johann Albert von (Russian Ioann-Al’bert Regel’). Zürich 12.12.1845 — Odessa 6.7.1908. Swiss Physician, Botanist and Exporer in Russia. Son of Eduard Regel (1815–1892, 1873 Russian title of nobility), a garden architect and botanist, and Elisabeth Locher. The family moved in 1855 to St.Petersburg. Studied medicine at St.Petersburg, Göttingen, Vienna and Dorpat…
RANKING, George Speirs Alexander. Hastings, Sussex 1.1.1852 — Caversham, Berkshire 14.6.1934. British Physician and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Robert Ranking (1785–1867) and Isabella Spiers (1810–1883). Educated at Aldenham School in Hertfordshire and St.Catharine’s College in Cambridge, studied medicine in London. In 1875-1905 in Indian Medical Service, finally as Lieutenant-Colonel. M.A.…
PHILLIPS, James Liddell. Balasore, Orissa 17.1.1840 — Mussoorie 25.6.1895. Rev. U.S. Medical Missionary. Son of —> Jeremiah Phillips (1812–1879) and Mary Ann Grimsditch (or Grunditch, d. 1840). Born in India as one of twins, lost soon his mother, educated from 1851 in the U.S.A. (at Whitestown Seminary, N.Y.). Graduated 1860…
PARDO DE TAVERA Y GORRICHO, Trinidad Hermengildo José Maria Juan Francisco. Manila 13.4.1857 — Manila 26.3.1925. Spanish-Philippinese Physician, Antiquarian and Linguist. Son of Felix Pardo de Tavera (d. 1864), a Spanish lawyer and high official, and Juliana Gorricho Santos, of a wealthy Philippinese Spanish family. Grew up in Intramuros, Manila. Studies at Colegio de…