CLARK, Edward Winter. Northeast, Dutchess County, NY 25.2.1830 — (St. Augustine, Florida 13.5.1913 or rather) Duchess County, NY 24.6.1913. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary and Tibeto-Burman (Naga) Scholar. Son of Perry Clark and Caroline Winchell. Educated at Worcester Academy. Graduated M.A. from Brown University 1857, attended Newton Theological Institution and Rochester…
CHAVÉE, Honoré-Joseph. Namur 3.6.1815 — Paris 15.7.1877. Belgian Linguist in Paris, also interested in Sanskrit and IE. Originally a Catholic priest, from 1845 living in France. Born in a poor family in Namur, lost early his father (when six). Studied theology at seminaries of Floreffe and 1834-38 Namur, was ordained…
CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madurai, Tamil Nadu 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu 19.6.1934. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Tamil scholar. Son of John Eddy Chandler (1817–1894), a missionary, and Charlotte Maria Hopkins (1821–1891). After Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven studies at Yale (B.A. 1870) and Yale Divinity School (B.D.). Priest ordination…
CARTER, Charles Henry. Leicestershire 29.10.1828 — Auckland 6.7.1914. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Thomas Carter, a stonemason, and Anne Thomson, raised near Leicester. Worked first as miller, but found religion, became Baptist and from 1849 studied at Horton College, learning Hebrew and Greek. Arrived in the…
CARRÉ, Barthélémy. 1636 — after 1699. Abbé. French Traveller. Of Blois, educated by Jesuits, took religious career and was ordained priest. From 1662 served in the navy, apparently as chaplain, in Atlantic, Mediterranian and Levant. Sent by Colbert with F. Caron to Madagascar, they arrived at Surat in 1669. Carré…
CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, Guildford Borough, Surrey 5.10.1844 — Oxford 2.6.1927. Rev. British Indologist (Pāli scholar), Unitarian Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Son of William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), a well-known biologist and unitarian, and Louisa Powell, nephew of —> Mary Carpenter (1807–1877). Educated at University College School in London, then…
CAREY, Eustace. Paulerspury near Towcester, Northamptonshire 22.3.1791 — London 19.7.1855. British Missionary in India. Son of Thomas Carey (1769–1822), an officer, nephew of —> William Carey (1761–1834). Educated at Bristol College, arrived at Serampur as a missionary in 1814, founded a missionary establishment in Calcutta in 1817, and left India…
CAMPBELL, William Howard. Londonderry, Ireland 20.9.1859 — Bourdighera in Liguria, Italy 18.2.1910. Rev. British (Irish/Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Son of Thomas Callender Campbell (1835–1902), a businessman, and his Scottish wife, Agnes Callender (1834–1925). Educated in Derry. Studies at Edinburgh University (M.A. 1880, B.D. 1882), also learned Sanskrit. From 1884…
CAMPBELL, Andrew. Bolton, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission of Free Church of Scotland, from 1872, first at Giridh in Hazaribagh dt., from 1879 at Pokharia in Manbhoom. Also an Honorary Magistrate, and Member of the…
CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez (Aveyron) 5.4.1692 (not 1693) — Chickballapur, Karnataka ?.2.1740 (hardly 1739). S.J. French Missionary and a Pioneer of Indology. He joined the S.J. as novice in Toulouse in 1709 (not in 1720!). Ordained 1725 and left for India in 1726 and worked at Carnatic mission, in Carveypondi (near…