WALKER, George David. 23.9.1884 — 19??. British (Scottish) Civil Servant 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…
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 1880 Major and Chief Political Officer in Naga Hills. C.I.E. Publications: “A Vocabulary of the Garo and Koch Dialects”, JASB 38, 1869,…
STEWART, Robert. Ardvorlich, Perthshire 15.9.1829 — 6.6.1882. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of Major William Murray St. 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…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William. Stretham, Cambridgeshire 1862 — London 20.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend J. H. Lorrain he became the first missionary in what is now Mizoram in 1894. In 1897 both…
SKREFSRUD, Lars (Laurentius Olsen). Fåberg in Oppland 4.2.1840 — Benagaria (now in Jharkand) 11.12.1910. Norwegian Missionary in India. Born in modest family, son of Ole Nielsen S. and Eli Døsen. In his troubled youth he was imprisoned for three years for theft, but in prison found the Bible and decided to become…
SHAKESPEAR, John. Indore 1.9.1861 — 1942. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel Sir Richmond Campbell Sh. (1812–61, served in India) and Marion Sophia Thompson. “Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, entered the Army, 1881, and became Major, 1895. Intelligence Officer, Lushai and Chin-Lushai expeditions, 1888-9, … Superintendent, South…
WEIDERT, Alfons Klaus. 21.3.1943 — Bangkok 24.7.1988. German Tibeto-Burman Linguist. Ph.D. 1971 Heidelberg. PD 1982 Kiel. In 1981-84 Chief-Supervisor of the German-Nepalese Linguistic Survey of Nepal field-project. Collected material through field study among more than 40 Tibeto-Burman languages. But he was hard on his informants and lost his research position…
LYALL, Charles James. London 9.3.1845 — London 1.9.1920. Sir. British Civil Servant and Oriental (Arabic and Urdu) Scholar. Son of Charles L., a banker, and Harriet Matheson. Educated at King’s College School and College, studies at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1867). Joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1867 and served…
LORRAIN, James Herbert (Mizo “Pu Buanga”). 6.2.1870 — London 8.1.1944. British (Scottish) Baptist Missionary in Assam. Grew up on South London where his father was postmaster. Worked as telegraphist in a post office, but left to India as missionary in 1890. With —> F. W. Savidge he arrived 1894 at…