WRIGHT, Daniel. St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife 28.12.1833 — Aberdeen 15.1.1902. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Surgeon-Major of Medical Service. Son of Captain Alexander Wright (1793–1852, of Indian army) and Johanna Leonora Christina Overbeek, brother of the Arabic scholar William Wright (1830–1889). Educated at St.Andrews. M.A. M.D. Joined Indian…
WILLATT, John. 1892 — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Major (1941). One Ltn. J. Willatt served in Italy in WW 1. Publications: With P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar: A Short History of India from the Earliest Times. 6+232 p. Bombay 1928. – A textbook of Urdu in the Roman script. 2nd ed. 1941,…
VOST, William. ?.11.1861 — London 1947. British (Scottish) Army Physician in India. Son of Henry Vost (1823–1877) and Isobel Charlotte Broad. Medical studies at Glasgow. From 1887 served in North India. Surgeon-Captain (1893). Retired as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913. Married 1910 Gladys McKechnie (1886–1969), two children. Publications: Numismatic articles in JASB and NC in…
TOLBORT, Thomas William Hooper. Dorchester (?) 1842 — Dorchester 1883, when 41. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Hooper Tolbort (1804–1842) and his wife Joanna (1805–1873). I.C.S. examination in 1862. Served in Bengal. Retired for health reasons and returned to the U.K., but died soon. A friend of Thomas…
TIMMER, Barbara Catharina Jacoba. Haarlem 22.11.1896 — Amsterdam 16.9.1978. Dutch Student of Classics and Indology. Daughter of neurologist Jan Timmer (1857–1933) and Anna Maria Loman (1857–1936). After school in Haarlem studies of Greek under Cohen and Indology under Faddegon at Amsterdam, also attended Vogel’s classes at Leiden. Ph.D. 1930 Amsterdam. Her…
TANNER, Joseph Robson. Frome, Somerset 28.7.1860 — Aldeburgh, Suffolk 16.1.1931. British Historian. The eldest son of Joseph Tanner, an accountant, and Fanny Robson. Educated at Mill Hill School, London, studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, fellow 1883). Lecturer in History at St.John’s 1883-1921, also Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1885-92,…
STUBBS, Francis William. Dundalk, Ireland 1828 — Cork 2.8.1911. British (Irish?) Colonial Officer in India. After Addiscombe joined E.I.C.’s army in 1847, served in Bengal Horse Artillery until 1878. Major, 1859 in Attock, in 1895 Major-General of Royal Artillery. Member of A.S.B. from 1859. Married Caroline Euphemia Forbes (1845–1901), six…
STEPHENS, Henry Morse. Edinburgh 3.10.1857 — Berkeley 16.4.1919. British Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of John Edward Stephens, of Indian army, and Emma Morris. Educated from 1871 at Haileybury College, studies from 1877 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1892). Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1892-94.…
SMITH, Lewis Ferdinand. 17?? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Lewis Lucius Smith (1750?–1794) of Indian army. Major in Daulat Rao Scindia’s service (no longer 1805). Secretary to Sir Harford Jones, Ambassador to Persia. Married with Ann Mitchell Nicholls, father of General Lucius Horton Smith (1793–1858).…
SHOWERS, Charles Lionel. India 5.2.1816 — Geneva 13.9.1895. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Howe Daniel Showers (1786–1829) and Harriet Ashe (1787–1826). Joined army 1835 and left for India. As Colonel in 1869 Political Agent in Gwalior, then Major-General (1878). Retired 1881, General 1889. Three times married, first…