PLAYFAIR, Alan. Algiers, Vryburg, Cape Province 15.6.1868 — Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia 30.9.1952. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Lambert Playfair and Agnes Rankin Webster. Served as Deputy Commissioner in Assam. Major (1909), then Lieutenant-Colonel. Retired 1921 and moved to Canada. Married 1903 Caroline Gamble…
MUIRHEAD-THOMSON, Robert Charles. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire 2.5.1914 — 4.10.2000. British Entomologist. Son of Rev. John M.-Th. Educated at Edinburgh and Kelvinside Academies. From 1932 studies of botany and zoology at Glasgow, B.Sc. 1936 in Zoology. D.Sc. 1942. Specializing on mosquito biology worked at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and…
LEACH, Edmund Ronald. Sidmouth, Devon 10.11.1910 — Cambridge 6.1.1989. Sir. British Anthropologist. Son of William Edmund Leach and Mildred Brierley, educated at Marlborough College. Studies of mathematical and mechanical sciences at Cambridge (Clare College). B.A. 1932, then four year in China serving a British business company, but did not like…
HAMILTON, Robert Clifton. 18?? — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Served in India from 1893-1920. In 1900 he had been seven years Assistant Commissioner in Assam. Still living in 1932. He could well be the R. Cl. Hamilton of https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Oxford_men_and_their_colleges.djvu/667, born in Bath 1872, studied at Oxford from 1891…
PEAL, Samuel Edward. 31.12.1834 — Moran, Sibsagar 29.7.1897. British Lay Ethnographer and Botanist. Originally an artist, in 1862 went to India and became a tea-planter near Sibsagar, Assam. As a planter he did not succeed well, but gained some fame with his biological and ethnographical studies. Like many of his…
PRYSE, William. Llanwrtydd, Breconshire 1820 — Sylhet (?) 2.8.1869.Rev. British (Welsh) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Born in Llanwrtyd, but the family moved soon to Tredegar in Monmouthshire. Studies in 1842-46 at Trefecca College. For a while pastor of Narbeth church, in 1848 ordained as missionary and sailed with his wife…
FOSTER, James Murray. 1836 (geni.com 4.3.1846) — 1879. British (Scottish) Physician in India. . Son of James F. and Susan Bunker. Med. Dr. In 1875 in Cachar (Assam). He was interested in numismatics, antiquities and botany. No further details found. Publications: “Note on Ghargháon, Asám”, JASB 41:1, 1872, 32-41 (former capital…
MILLS, James Philip. Cheshire 18.2.1890 — Dorset 12.5.1960. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Edward Mills and Ada Smith, educated at Winchester and 1909-12 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Entered I.C.S. 1913, served in Assam, from 1916 in Naga Hills District, during WW I served in Jumna…
HODSON, Thomas Callan. Hornsey, Middlesex 12.12.1871 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 25.1.1953. British Anthropologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Arthur H., of Royal Navy, and Mary Catherine Callan, educated at Christ’s Hospital. From 1890 studies at Oxford (Queen’s College), no degree. In 1894 joined I.C.S., served in Bengal, Assam and Manipur, retired…
HANNAY, Simon Fraser. Inverness 12.11.1801 — Dibrugarh, Assam 30.1.1861. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Henry H. (1766–1822) and Helen Fraser (1777–1815). From 1820 Ensign in Bengal Light Infantry. From 1836 served in Assam, in 1839-61 commander of the 1st Assam Light Infantry. Colonel. Pioneer of Assam tea…