MARSHMAN, Joshua. Westburg Leigh, Wiltshire 20.4.1768 — Serampur 5.12.1837. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology in India. Son of John Marshman, a weaver, and Mary Couzener, educated at the village school of Westbury Leigh. Apprenticed to a bookseller he read extensively. In 1794-99 Master of a Baptist school in Bristol,…
MARCO DELLA TOMBA (lay Pietro Girolamo Agresti). Tomba (now Castel Colonna) near Senigallia in Urbino 1726 — Bhagalpur (Patna) 13.3. (or 7.6.) 1803. Father. Italian Capuchin Missionary, in India 1757-73 & 1786-1803. Son of Crisostomo Agresti and Vittoria Luzietti, Capuchin novice 1745. In 1755 he joined the Tibetan mission of…
MANEN, Mari Albert Johan van. Nijmegen 16.4.1877 — Calcutta 17.4.1943. Dutch Librarian and Theosophist in India. Son of Reinier Otto van Manen, an engineer in state service, and Maria Albertina Johanna van Tricht, grew up in Zutphen and Haarlem. After a chequered youth, more interested in art and politics than…
MANDELSLO, Johann Albrecht von (Johan Albert von M.). Schönberg, Mecklenburg 15.5.1616 — Paris 16.5.1644. German Traveller in India. Son of Hermann Clamor von Mandelslo (1573–1648), an administrator, and Anna Pflug. Started 1636 his travels together with his friend Adam Olearius (1599–1671) in Holstenian embassy to Persia, on his own he…
MAJER (Maier), Friedrich. Koskau bei Schleiz 28.4.1772 — Gera 15.5.1818. German Lawyer and Scholar interested in India. Son of a minister. Studied law at Jena from 1791. He was lawyer and PD at Jena, then living in Weimar, in 1804–05 tutor of the heir-apparent Heinrich LXII of Reuss-Schleiz during his…
MAHON, George William. Madras 1808 — Aspley Guise, Woburn, Bedfordshire 1866. Rev. British Clergyman in India. Son of William Mahon, of Swansea. Matriculated 1824 Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A. 1828 and Fellow 1828–37. M.A. 1831, Chaplain 1834. After brief service in Bangalore, Chaplain of Fort St. George in 1839–49, removed because…
MAGOUN, Herbert William. Bath, co. Sagadahoc, Maine 17.2.1856 — Belmont, Mass. 8.1. 1956. U.S. Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas P. I. Magoun and Maria Littlefield. Studies at Iowa (now Grinnell) College (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882). In 1879-80 Assistant Principal of High School in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1880-81 Principal of…
MÄNNER, August. Ossweil, Württemberg 22.7.1828 — Seehof, Württemberg 25.4.1891. Rev. German Missionary in South India. After Basel Mission School arrived in 1857 and worked 20 years in Mulki and Udupi, from 1878 in Mangalore, retired on health reasons in 1891. He worked actively for translating the Bible in Tuḷu. Publications:…
MACPHERSON, Samuel Charters (not Charles!). Aberdeen 7.1.1806 — Calcutta 15.4.1860. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major (1854). Son of Hugh M. (1767–1854), Professor of Greek at King’s College, Aberdeen, and Anna Maria Charters (1784–1807). Educated in Edinburgh, then two years at Cambridge (Trinity College). Joined Madras Army in 1827. From…
MACNICOL, Nicol. Catacol, Lochranza, Isle of Arran 26.2.1870 — Edinburgh 13.2.1952. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Marathi Scholar. Son of the local minister. Studies at Glasgow High School and University. M.A. 1891, D.Litt. 1901, D.D. 1928 Glasgow. From 1895 missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland Mission, first at…