THEOBALD, William. Marylebone, London 1829 — Ilfracombe, Devon 31.3.1908. British Naturalist in India. Son of the elder William Theobald and Anna Bishop, early years unclear. He arrived at Calcutta in 1847, worked in coal exploration and became acquainted with Joseph Hooker. He joined the Geological Survey of India and participated…
TEXTOR DE RAVISI, Anatole Arthur, M. le baron. Bourges 15.6.1822 — Paris 8.1.1902. French Colonial Servant. Son of Étienne Textor (1790–1826), an officer, of an old noble family of Forez, and Anne Marie Guenot. Attended 1840-42 Saint-Cyr military school, then joined marine infantery. Served in Morocco and 1847-52 in Réunion.…
TAYLOR, William. Madras 1800? — Madras 1878/79. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist in India. Born in India, educated in the U.K. He went back to India in the service of E.I.C., but soon resigned, studied theology and returned to India in the service of London Missionary Society in 1824. Ordained…
TAYLOR, Philip Meadows. Liverpool 25.9.1808 — Menton, Southern France 13.5.1876. British Administrator and Author in India. Son of a merchant, the elder Ph. M. Taylor, and Jane Honoria Alicia Mitford. The business was not successful, the family moved often and he went to school in Dublin. He came to India…
TAYLOR, George Pritchard. Cambay, Gujarat 1854 — Ahmedabad 21.2.1920. Rev. British Presbyterian Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Joseph Van Someran Taylor (1820–1881), missionary in India, translator of the Bible in Gujarātī and author of a grammar (below). Also the grandfather, Rev. Joseph Taylor (d. 1859) had been missionary (in…
TARN, William Woodthorpe. London 26.2.1869 — Muirtown near Inverness 7.11.1957. Sir (1952). British (Scottish) Lawyer and Classical Historian. Son of William Tarn, a silk merchant, and Frances Arthy. After Eton College studies from 1888 at Trinity College, Cambridge. After Inner Temple worked as lawyer in London in 1894-1905, but was…
TABARD, Antoine Marie (Anthony Mary Tabard). Torigni-sur-Vire, Normandy 15.10.1863 — Mysore 2.7.1926 (when 63). Father. French Missionary and Indologist in India. Roman Catholic priest. Educated at home and in Caen. M.A. 1881 Paris. After missionary education he was ordained priest in 1886 and sent to Bangalore as a teacher. He…
QUEYROZ, Fernão de. Canavezes near Amarante 1617 — Goa 12.4.1688. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Historian in India. Joined S.J. in 1631 in Coimbra and arrived at Cochin in 1635. In 1635-41 studied philosophy, then theology in Goa. From 1647 taught theology at St. Paul’s College in Goa. Rector of college…
QUATREMÈRE, Étienne-Marc. Paris 12.7.1782 — Paris 18.9.1857. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar and Historian. Professor in Paris. Born in a Jansenist family, son of Marc-Étienne Quatremère de Roissy (1751–1794) and Suzanne Sophie Lesueur-Florent (1756–1828). Lost in revolution his father who was cloth merchant and member of minor nobility and…
PRINSEP, James. London 20/29.8.1799 — London 22.4.1840. British Civil Servant, Numismatist and Epigraphist in India. Son of John Prinsep (1746–1830), an industrialist and politician who had been in India as soldier in 1771-88, and Sophia Elizabeth Auriol (1760–1850), brother of —> Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792–1878). He studied chemistry and was…