MACFARLANE, Charles. Scotland 18.12.1799 — London 9.12.1858. British (Scottish) Author of Historical Works, Travel Books and Novels. Son of Robert M. In 1816–27 lived in Italy, then 16 months in Constantinople. Then in London as free author, in 1847-48 again in Turkey and Italy. Married Charlotte Emily Ormsden (d. 1854),…
SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. 1847 — 1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine, a retired officer in Wimbledon, and Mary Bennett. Educated at Blackheath School; entered the I.C.S. 1868, served in Bengal and Bihar. In the 1880s worked on famine relief in Bihar and Madras. Collector…
REES, John David. London 16.12.1854 — London 2.6.1922. First Baronet (1919). British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lodwich William Rees and Ann Jones. “Educated at Cheltenham. Entered the Madras Civil Service, 1875. Private Secretary to three successive Governors…; Government Translator in Tamil, Telugu, Persian and Hindustani. British Resident in…
TROTTER, Lionel James. Calcutta ?.9.1827 — Oxford ?.5.1912. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Edward Trotter (1805–1831), of Calcutta, and Sarah Dickey. “Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford. Entered Indian Army, 1847. Served in Panjab campaign, 1848-9, at Chilianwala and Gujarat; Burma war, 1853. Commanded at Sabathu during…
THOMPSON, Edward John. Hazel Grove, Stockport near Manchester 9.4.1886 — Bledlow, Buckinghamshire 28.4.1946. British Wesleyan Missionary and Author in India. Son of John Moses Th. (d. 1894), a missionary in South India, and his wife Elizabeth, born during the family’s furlough in England. Educated in Bath, for a while worked…
PRINSEP, Henry Thoby. Thoby Priory, Essex 15.7.1792 — Freshwater, Ile of Wight 11.2.1878. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Pr. and Sophia Auriol, brother of —> James Pr. Educated privately and at Tonbridge School, then 1807-08 at East Indian College in Hertford. He arrived in Bengal in 1809.…
VANSITTART, Henry. Bloomsbury, Middlesex 3.6.1732 — on sea 1770. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Arthur van Sittart, a wealthy merchant of Dutch origin, and Martha Stonhouse. “Educated at Reading and Winchester; went out as a writer of the E.I.C. to the Madras service, 1745. To Fort St. David,…
NOVIKOV, Nikolaj Ivanovič. Tihvinskoje-Avdotjino near Bronnicy (SE of Moscow) 8.5.(27.4.)1744 — ibid. 12.8.(31.7.)1818. Russian Literate, one of the leading representatives of Enlightenment in Russia. Born in a noble family, educated in Moscow. After military service worked in the committee for the renovation of legislature. When this was closed in 1769…
NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich (originally Bamberger). Reichmannsdorf near Bamberg 28.12.1793 (?) — Berlin 17.3. or 28.3.1870. German Oriental Scholar and Historian. Professor in Munich. Son of a poor Jewish merchant, worked himself in the shop. Date of birth is his own statement, which has been deemed suspicious. After school in Frankfurt…
MOOR, Edward. 1771 — Westminster 26.2.1848. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Major. Left for India as young cadet in 1782, arrived at Madras 1783. “Served with the Mahratta Army against Tippoo, 1790-1, at Dharwar, Doridrug, Gadjnur; wrote, in 1794, an account of the operations. Officiated as Quarter-Master-General;…