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…
PRINGLE, Arthur Torrens. 1852? — Madras ?.1.1904, when 51. British Civil Servant in India. “Assistant Secretary to the Madras Government, and a writer of note, whose labors and research have earned the gratitude of many better known workers.” At the time of his untimely death he was editing John Fryer’s…
PRICE, John Frederick. Hobart, Tasmania 3.10.1839 — Exmouth, Devon 12/13.6.1927. Sir. British (Australian) Civil Servant in India. Son of John Giles Price (1809–1857, inspector-general of penal establishments, born in Cornwall) and Mary Franklin. Educated in Hobart, studies at Melbourne University, he joined the Madras Civil Service in 1862. Became Chief…
PRICE, David. Merthyr Cynog near Brecon, Powys 1762 — Brecon (?) 16.12.1835. British Colonial Officer in India, Persian Scholar and Historian. Major. Served in India in 1781–1805. Son of Rev. David Price (d. 1775), a curate, lost early his father and was brought up by his grandfather. “Educated at Brecknock…
PRIAULX, Osmond de Beauvoir. Guernsey 5.3.1805 — Woking, Surrey 15.1.1891. British Classical Scholar interested in India. Born in a wealthy family, son of Anthony Priaulx (1775–1820) and Martha Gore (1780–1811), studied law at Cambridge (St. Claire’s College, M.A.). Called to the bar 1832, but never practised law. Instead he lived…
PIGULEVSKAJA, Nina Viktorovna (née Stebnickaja). St.Petersburg 1.(13.)1.1894 — Leningrad 17.2.1970. Russian Historian of Byzantium and the Near East. Born of an originally Polish family of minor nobility, daughter of Ieronim Ivanovič Stebnickij (1832–1897), a geodesist and lawyer, grew up in St.Petersburg. From 1918 studies of Semitics under P. K. Kokovcov,…
PHAYRE, Arthur Purves. Shrewsbury 7.5.1812 — Bray near Dublin 14.12.1885. Sir. British (Irish Protestant) Colonial Officer and Burmese Scholar. In Burma 1834-74. Son of Richard Phayre (1761–1830) and Mary Ridgeway. “Educated in Shrewsbury, entered the Bengal Army, 1828. Served in the administration of Burma, 1834-48, in the Panjab, 1848-9; Commissioner…
PARGITER, Frederick Eden. Jaffna, Sri Lanka 1852 — Charlbury, Oxfordshire 18.2.1927. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India (I.C.S. 1875-1906). Son of Rev. Robert Pargiter (1816–1915) and Anna Matilda Palm, educated at Taunton Grammar School. Studies at Oxford (Exeter College), mathematics, Sanskrit, etc. In 1875 he joined the Bengal Civil…
PAHOMOV, Evgenij Aleksandrovič. Stavropol, Russian Caucasia 13.(25.)2.1880 — 2.5.1965. Russian Iranian and Caucasian Scholar, specialist of Middle Iranian Epigraphy and Numismatics. Son of an official, matriculated 1896 from Tiflis (Tbilisi). Graduated 1900 from Archaeological Institute in St.Petersburg and 1902 from St.Petersburg Technological Institute. In 1920-65 taught at Azerbaijan University and in…
VORETZSCH, Ernst Arthur. Lucka, Thüringen 13.8.1868 — Colmberg, Kr. Ansbach 18.5.1965. German Diplomat and Historian. Studied law at Göttingen and entered foreign service in 1899. Served as Vice-Consul in Calcutta, Christiania (Oslo) and Johannesburg, as Consul in Hong Kong, Singapur, Bangkok, Shanghai, Hankou und Christiania/Oslo. Then Ambassador in Lisbon 1920-28…