WALKER, George David. 23.9.1884 — 19??. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Deputy Commissioner of Garo Hills in 1923-29. In 1938 apparently still in Assam. Publications: A dictionary of the Mikir language. 462 p. Shillong 1925. – “The Garo Manufacture of Bark Cloth”, Man 27, 1927, 15f. Sources: Scanty stray notes in…
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…
WILLIAMSON, W. J. 18?? — 19??. British Colonial Officer in India. Apparently served in India in 1854-95. Lieutenant, soon (1872) Captain. From 1866 the first Deputy Commissioner of Garo Hills, in 1879-80 Major and Chief Political Officer on Naga Hills Expedition. C.I.E. Publications: “A Vocabulary of the Garo and Koch Dialects”, JASB 38,…
STEWART, Robert. Ardvorlich, Perthshire 15.9.1829 — 6.6.1882. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of Major William Murray Stewart and Charlotte Debnam. Lieutenant, then Captain of Bengal Army. From 1856 Assistant Superintendent, then Deputy Commissioner of Cachar in Assam (1867). Married 1860 Charlotte Joanna Murray, one daughter. Publications: “Notes on…
LEWIN, Thomas Herbert. London 1.4.1839 — Abinger, Surrey 11.2.1916. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of George Herbert Lewin (1808–1856) and Mary Friend (1811–1890). Educated at Littlehampton and Addiscombe, in 1857 to India. Until 1874 served in Chittagong Hill Tracts. From 1875 Deputy Commissioner of Cooch Behar and from…
BOR, Norman Loftus. Tramore, County Waterford 2.5.1893 — London 22.12.1972. Irish Botanist. Son of Edward Bor and Mabel Thornton. Educated in Kilkenny and Dublin, studied medicine at Trinity College, but in 1914 joined the army. War service in Greece and Palestine, wounded 1916. B.A. 1921, M.A. 1927, Trinity College. B.Sc.…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge, a grocer and draper. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend J. H. Lorrain he became the…
SKREFSRUD, Lars (Laurentius Olsen). Fåberg in Oppland 4.2.1840 — Benagaria (now in Jharkand) 11.12.1910. Norwegian Missionary in India. Born in a modest family, son of Ole Nielsen Skrefsrud and Eli Døsen (1808–1856). His father had alcoholic problem and the boy got almost no education. In his troubled youth he was imprisoned for…
SHAKESPEAR, John. Indore 1.9.1861 — 1942. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (1812–61, served in India) and Marian Sophia Thompson (1825–1899). “Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, entered the Army, 1881, and became Major, 1895. Intelligence Officer, Lushai and Chin-Lushai expeditions, 1888-9, … Superintendent,…
SHAFER, Robert Lloyd (Schafer). 1893 — 1969. U.S. Linguist and Sino-Tibetan scholar. Ph.D. Director of Sino-Tibetan Linguistic Project at U.C. Berkeley. Famous, but rather much criticised for his brave hypotheses. Publications: “Nahālī, a linguistic study in paleoethnography”, HJAS 5, 1940, 346-371; “Linguistics in History”, JAOS 67, 1947, 296-305; other articles.…