The following article appeared in the October 1898 issue of the Old Shirburnian Society Annual Report. It reveals the large number of Old Shirburnians then working in India in all areas of the government, the law, the Church and missionary work, the civil service, the army, and agriculture. Additional biographical information has been added to the original article giving details of every OS named:
‘The following items of news concerning O.S. in India will be of interest, especially as the School has furnished more than one name of distinction in Indian official circles. Since the death of Sir Douglas Forsyth and the departure of Sir Charles Pritchard, who held the office of Public Works Member of the Viceroy’s Council from 1891 to 1896, the most important place in public affairs is filled by General Hammond, V.C. now commanding at Rawal Pindi. At Simla, we are worthily represented by F.R. Upcott, Secretary to the Government of India for Railways, and by Evan Maconochie, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Revenue Department. The latter is to be congratulated on his recently-announced engagement to a daughter of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. In the Punjab H.W. Gee, who was so treacherously attacked at Maizar last year, still holds the post of Political Officer in the Tochi Valley. At Peshawur Lieut. C.P. Down is Assistant Commissioner, and Lieut. C.B.L. Greenstreet, R.E., is attached to the Military Works Department at that important frontier station; and both of them saw service in the Tirah campaign.
Coming to the North-Western Provinces, we run across the familiar names of W.R. Partridge, now risen to be full Magistrate and Collector, and of H.S. Rix, Assistant Superintendent of Dehra Dun; nor must a tribute be forgotten to the memory of Johnstone Penney, whose promising career was so ruthlessly cut short by cholera when in charge of the Unas district in 1895. In Calcutta there is quite a colony of Shirburnians, as befits the capital city of the Empire. First and foremost must be named the Rev. Henry Whitehead, the Principal of the Bishop’s College, and one of the few holders of Oxford Fellowships in the country. J.J. Cotton of the Madras Civil Service is at present Assistant Accountant-General of Bengal and has achieved some reputation by his articles and poems in the Calcutta Review and Pioneer. His brother, H.E.A. Cotton is a member of the Calcutta Bar, and a rising man, who has lately taken himself a wife. Their father is now Chief Commissioner of Assam. W.H. Edwards is a solicitor and is associated with the important firm of Orr, Robertson and Barton. He has manifested amphibious instincts which have taken the form of a Lieutenant’s commission in the Calcutta Naval Volunteers. G.L. Smallwood is doing very well as a broker, and H. Pedler enjoys an extensive practice as a dental surgeon. F.K. Rawlins is indigo planting at Behar and has become a famous local Nimrod and pig-sticker. In Darjeeling, the honoured name of Curteis is re-called by his two married daughters, Mrs Ager and Mrs Meares.
Across the Bay of Bengal, W. Warry fills a responsible post as adviser on Chinese affairs to the Government of Burma and H.P. Pedler is District Superintendent of Police at Montmein. In Southern India, W.B. de Winton is Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Public Works Department and Kenworthy Brown is a leading member of the Madras Bar and Law Reporter of the local High Court. A.J. Sturmer, one of the oldest of O.S. in India, is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Medical Service and a Professor at the Madras Medical College, with a large practice in the Presidency-town. J.G.D. Partridge is Collector and Magistrate of Madura, and H.B. Bryant is a Deputy-Conservator of Forests. W.A. Everington is a planter in Mysore, and R.G.B. Plumer (who has recently married) an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the same State. Lieutenant A.P. How, of the 17th Madras Infantry, is District Recruiting Officer at Bangalore, near which station A. Hankey and W.A. Everington are coffee-planting. H.H. Sparkes, a very senior Shirburnian, is Superintendent of the Bangalore Jail Press. At Hyderabad W. Carbery is an Assistant in the local branch of the Bank of Bengal. Lieutenant W.J. Lambert, who is attached to the 2nd Lancers (Hyderabad contingent) is also stationed at Secanderabad with is regiment.
On the West Coast, Bombay can claim its fair share of Shirburnians – C.A. Kincaid and G.J. Keatinge in the Civil Service, F.J.A. Hill in the Salt Department, and the Rev. L.M. Haslope and the Rev. H.W. Nelson in the Chaplains’ Department. The last named of these was attached to the Tirah Field Force. In the Andamans R.M. Lowis is a member of the Commission which administers that modern and model Gyarus and Seriphus. The whereabouts of Military O.S. are always somewhat difficult to ascertain, as they are constantly on the move; but the following are known to be in India at the time of writing; Capt. H.M. Twynam and Lieut. P. Lonsdale of the East Lancashire Regt. (Ranikhat), the former of whom has been acting as A.D.C. to the General Commanding the Punjab Frontier Force; Capt. E.A. Iremonger, of the Durham Light Infantry (Poona), a prominent athlete in a prominently athletic regiment; Lieut. E.B. Luard of the Shropshire Light Infantry, who have done battle with the plague at Hong Kong and at Bombay; Lieut. R.W. Waldy of the Bedfordshire Regiment (Meean Meer); Lieuts. T.F. Murray and R.G.I. Chichester, of the Highland Light Infantry (Kurrachee), the former just returned from filling the post of Orderly Captain to the General commanding the Malakand Brigade; Capt. P.H. Cunningham of the 1st Bombay Grenadiers, has been doing good as special plague officer at Kurrachee; Lieut. A.L. Jacob of the Bombay Staff Corps, is Assistant Political Agent in the Zhob Valley in Baluchistan, and his cousin, Capt. A. Le Grand Jacob, is a distinguished and popular member of the 30th Bombay Infantry (3rd Beloochees). Lieut. W.A.S. Kincaid, R.E., after helping to build and thereafter to manage the East Coast Railway, has accepted a railway appointment in Egypt, and has taken a wife with him to Alexandria; while Lieut. F.R. Hicks of the Hampshire Regt., who was for some years in India, has after qualifying as Interpreter in Turkish, been seconded for service in India. It is not inappropriate, perhaps, to conclude with some reference to the Dorset Regiment, Primus in Indis, of which our Cadet Corps is proud to be a unit, and which bore itself with credit in the recent Frontier Campaign; while the names of Sir William Mackworth Young, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, and of the four brothers Westcott, who are doing an unostentatious and useful missionary work at Cawnpore, Delhi and Madras respectively, will, serve to perpetuate in India the memory of the late and of the present Head Master.
Addendum: For his services during the operations in Mehran the Queen has appointed Capt. A. le Grand Jacob, Indian Staff Corps, to be Companion of his Distinguished Service Order.’
Biographies of those mentioned in the article:
William Kenworthy BROWNE (1859-1916)
Son of William Kenworthy Browne, Goldington, Bedfordshire.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbey House) 1871-1876; Scholar; 6th form.
Exeter College, Oxford 1879; BA 1881.
Assisted in cataloguing the library at the Birmingham Oratory.
University of Bologna 1888/1889, where he was the first Englishman to take the LL.D degree since the Reformation.
Private Chamberlain to Pius X.
Doctor of Laws 1892.
Lived in Italy.
Died in 1916 at the Convent of the Little Company of Mary, Villa S. Girolamo, Fiesole, Italy.
Horace Bransby BRYANT (1868-1941)
Son of Thomas Bryant, F.R.C.S, 53 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square.
Attended the Isle of Wight College.
Attended Sherborne School (Price’s house) September 1882-December 1884.
Imperial Forest Service, Madras 1890.
Claud William Wemyss CARBERY (1871-1947)
Son of W.E. Carbery, Kensington.
Attended Sherborne School (The Green) September 1887-April 1889.
Banker in India.
Robert Guy Incledon CHICHESTER (1873-1914)
Second son of the Rev. Richard Chichester of Drewsteignton Rectory, Newton Abbot, Devon. Married to Edith Chichester, of Fairlie, Ayrshire.
Attended Sherborne Preparatory School.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) January 1887-1891; shooting viii team 1890.
Joined Highland Light Infantry from the Militia in May 1895, becoming Lieutenant in September 1898. He was on active service on the North-West Frontier of India in 1897-1898 with the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, and was present at the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass, receiving the medal with clasp. In the South Africa War he was employed with the Mounted Infantry, and was present at operations in Cape Colony, January to March 1901, Orange River Colony 1901-1902, and in the Transvaal in April and May 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with five clasps. He was promoted Captain in March 1901.
WW1,Captain, Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Bn. Killed near Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 13 November 1914. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, panel 38.
Harry Evan Auguste COTTON (1868-1939)
Born on 27 May 1868 at Midnapore in the West Bengal state of India, son of Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845-1915), KCSI, Chief Commissioner of Assam 1896-1902 and Liberal MP 1906-1910, and Mary Cotton (née Ryan) (1848-1914). Brother of Julian James Cotton (1869-1927) and Albert Louis Cotton (1874-1936).
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1882-1887; 6th form; School Prefect; Digby Prize 1886; Leweston Prize and English Essay Prize 1887; editor of The Shirburnian.
Scholar, Jesus College, Oxford 1887; 2nd class Classics, Mods. 1889; 2nd class History 1891; 2nd class Law 1892.
Secretary and Treasurer, Oxford University Union Society.
Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) 1893.
Advocate of Calcutta High Court 1893-1906.
London County Council 1910-1922.
Alderman 1919-1922.
MP for East Finsbury 1918.
President, Bengal Legislative Council 1922-1925.
C.I.E. 1921.
Knighted 1925.
Julian James COTTON (1869-1927)
Born on 3 October 1869 at Krishnagar in the West Bengal state of India, son of Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845-1915), KCSI, Chief Commissioner of Assam 1896-1902 and Liberal MP 1906-1910, and Mary Cotton (née Ryan) (1848-1914). Brother of Harry Evan Auguste Cotton (1868-1939) and Albert Louis Cotton (1874-1936).
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1882-1888; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect; Latin Verse Prize 1886, 1888; Greek Prose Prize 1886-1888; Greek Verse Prize 1887, 1888; Parsons Prize 1887; Leweston and Bowen Prizes, English Essay, Classical Medal and Sherborne Exhibition, 1888; Head of School 1887.
Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1888; 2nd class Classics, Mods., 1890; Gaisford Prize (Greek Prose) 1891; Chancellor’s Latin Verse, and Cert. in Taylorian (French) Schol., 1892; 2nd class Classics 1892.
Indian Civil Service (7th) 1892.
Arrived in India in 1893.
Assistant Accountant-General of Bengal.
Wrote articles and poems for the Calcutta Review and Pioneer.
On 28 December 1901 was married at Naples to Luisa Maria Raffaella Ricciardi.
District & Sessions Judge, 1910-1926.
Curator of the Madras Record office, 1926-1927.
Served in Madras, and as Assistant Acct. General in Bengal.
Author: Gaisford Prize-Greek Prose, 1891. The story of Husain and the Mohurram celebration in the East (Oxford, 1891); Phoenicum navigations. Carmen latinum Cancellari praemio donatum, etc. (Oxford, 1892); List of European tombs in the Bellary district with inscriptions thereon (Bellary, 1894); Pondicherry Past and Present (1901?); His Majesty’s Regiment de Meuron (Calcutta, 1903); List of inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Madras possessing historical or archaeological interest (Madras, 1905); General Avitabile (reprinted from the Calcutta Review, 1906); A book of Corpus verses (Oxford, 1909); George Chinnery, Artist, 1774-1852 (reprinted from Bengal: Past and Present, 1924); The Second Mrs Hastings and her Sons (reprinted from Bengal: Past and Present, 1925); William Knighton’s private life of an Eastern King (Calcutta, 1927). His poem ‘Vita Nuova’ was published in December 1896 issue of The Shirburnian.
Died in Madras on 20 June 1927 of heart failure and tumour of the pelvis. Buried the same day at St George’s, Madras.
Percy Henry CUNNINGHAM (1863-1923)
Son of Colonel P.S. Cunningham, Commandant, 3rd Regiment Light Infantry (Madras), Lecundersbad.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House and School House) September 1876-1881; XI 1881; XV 1880, 1881.
In ranks Royal Scots Fusiliers 1884; 2nd Lieutenant 1887; Lieutenant, 1st Bombay Grenadiers 1888; Lieutenant-Colonel 1913; Commandant 101st Bombay Grenadiers 1913; Sudan 1885-1886; Manipur 1891; North West Frontier 1897-1898; China 1900; East Africa 1902-1904; WW1, British East Africa (despatches 3, OBE); retired 1920.
Arthur Mapletoft CURTEIS (1834-1922)
Usher at Sherborne School 1860-1871, and Assistant Master to 1876.
Headmaster of Hillside School, Godalming.
A.M. Curteis’s daughters:
Mary Isabel Curteis (1861-1947) married William Joseph Ager (1856-1910).
Frances Helen Curteis (1864-1929) married John Willoughby Mears (1871-1946)
Walter Barnard DE WINTON (1850-1944)
Son of Venerable Archdeacon H. de Winton, Llandrindod.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1861-1868; 6th form; XI 1867, 1868; XV 1868.
R.I.E. College, Cooper’s Hill, 1871-1874.
P.W.D. Madras 1874.
Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government of Madras in P.W.D. 1897.
C.I.E. 1903.
Retired 1905.
Cecil Patton DOWN (1867-1902)
Son of Rev. Charles John Down, Corffe, Barnstaple, Devon.
Attended Sherborne School (Price’s house) September 1883-August 1885.
Sandhurst.
2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment 1888; Tirah campaign 1897; Captain Indian Staff Corps 1899; Assistant Commissioner, Punjab; killed in action in 1902 whilst serving as a political officer in the Shaktu Valley in the North West Frontier area of India.
William Harold EDWARDS (1872-?)
Son of W.H. Edwards, civil engineer.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1885-1888.
Adm. Solicitor; practised in India.
Major, Indian Defence Force, attached 27th Cavalry; V.D.; abandoned law for mining and exploration; director of mining companies.
William Arnold EVERINGTON (1869-1950)
Son of Edgar Rowe Everington, Dulwich Wood Park, Norwood.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1882-1887.
Adm. Solicitor 1892. Retired by 1950.
Herbert Walter GEE (1866-1901)
Born 21 September 1866 in Bath, Somerset.
Son of Rev. William Gee (c.1827-1877), Vicar of East Coker, Somerset, and Helena Gee (née Hudleston) (c.1841-1917).
Preparatory School: Mr Curteis, Hill Side, Godalming, Surrey.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) September 1880-July 1884; scholar; 6th form; School Prefect; played cricket and rugby football for his house; a member of the School Musical Society (soloist in 1880 in performance of Goss’ ‘The Wilderness’ and played viola in a Selection for Trio in D by Mozart; soloist in 1882 in performance of Romberg’s ‘Lay of the Bell’); a member of the School Orchestra (1st violins); played Fives; at the School Commemoration Day in July 1883 recited ‘Organ Boy’ by Lewis Morris (‘Gee recited it with great distinctness and an entire absence of the affectation which generally mars such performances’); a member of the School Debating Society (secretary in 1883); member of the Games Committee in 1883.
Attended New College, Oxford.
I.S.C. (10th) 1885.
Chief Political Officer, Tochi Valley Expedition, 1897.
Deputy Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan, 1899.
Died 4 February 1901 at Dera Ismail.
Charles Basil Lees GREENSTREET (1871-1946)
Son of Col. W.L. Greenstreet, Royal Engineers.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1885-1888; Scholar; School Prefect; 6th form; Digby Maths and Science Prize 1888.
Royal Military Academy (passed in 1st).
Royal Engineers 1891; Mohmand and Tirah Expeditions 1897-1898; ww1, Mesopotamia 1915-1917 (brevet Lieut.-Col., despatches 5); Serbian Order of White Eagle; C.R.E. 15th (Indian) Division; retired as Colonel 1921.
Arthur George HAMMOND (1843-1919)
Son of Major T.J. Hammond, Sherborne.
Attended Sherborne School (Foundationer) 1852-1860; XI 1860.
Addiscombe Military College 1860.
Bengal Staff Corps 1861; Corps of Guides in Jowaki Afridi Expedition 1877 (despatches); Afghan War 1878-1880; Asmai Heights near Kabul (VC 14 December 1879) (despatches); Lieut.-Colonel 1887; in command 3rd Sikhs, Hazara Expedition 1888 (despatches, DSO); ADC and Colonel 1890; in command of a brigade in Hazara Expedition 1891 (despatches, CB); in command of a Brigade in Isazai Expedition 1892; in command of 4th Brigade Chitral Relief Force 1895 (despatches); Tirah Expedition 1897-1898 (despatches); retired Colonel; KCB.
Lancelot Melvill HASLOPE (1860-1946)
Son of L. Ll. Haslope, Falmouth, Devon.
Attended Sherborne School (The Green) 1876-1879; 6th form.
Merton College, Oxford; BA 1884; ordained 1885.
Chaplain, Bombay Eccl. Estabt. 1889-1911.
Vicar of Owslebury, Hampshire, 1911-1916.
Died in 1946 in Launceston, Tasmania.
Frederick Richard HICKS (1871-1915)
Son of Francis Hicks of Burrington Park, Plymouth; brother of Francis Baptist Hicks (1869-1900); husband of Grace Winifred Hicks, of Lanhainsworth, St. Columb, Cornwall.
Attended Plymouth High School.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1882-July 1889; scholar; 6th form; Prefect.
Attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Gazetted in October 1890 to the Hampshire Regiment; Lieutenant 1892; Captain 1898; Major 1908; served with the Uganda Rifles 1898-1899, from May to July 1900 he was on special service in South Africa on the Staff of the Military Governor of Johannesburg, and later taking part in the South African war, was employed with the Rand Rifles from 1901 to 1902. Qualified as a first-class interpreter of modern languages, and a graduate of the Staff College. On Staff Service his appointments were: Uganda Protectorate (January 1898-May 1900), special service in South Africa (1900), employment with the Rand Rifles (December 1901-November 1902), brigade major, 16th Brigade Irish Command (October 1909-March 1912), and General Staff Officer (2nd grade), Coast Defence, Southern Command (March 1912-October 1913).
WW1, Colonel in the Hampshire Regiment. 22 August 1914, went to France, 2nd in Command of 1st Bn., and was wounded at Le Cateau. November 1914, returned to France in Command of 1st Bn. Wounded at La Brique near Ypres on 8 May 1915, and died on 12 June 1915 at Guy’s Hospital, London, of his wounds and enteric fever. Commemorated at St Columb Major Cemetery.
Frederick Justly Arnold HILL (1851-1916)
Son of Capt. Henry Worsley Hill, R.N., Newland, Sherborne.
Attended Sherborne School (Foundationer) 1862.
Died in Firenze, Italy in 1916.
Edgar Assheton IREMONGER (1862-1953)
Son of Col. Henry Edward Iremonger, Coley Avenue, Reading.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1878-1881; XV 1880.
Jesus College, Cambridge.
Durham Light Infantry 1887; South African War 1899-1902; Major; WW1 with 16th D.L.I. and 8th Suffolk Regiment; CBE 1919; Lieut-Colonel commanding 50th Regiment Dist.; Colonel commanding No.6 District; retired. Died in 1953 at Tampa, Florida, USA.
Arthur le Grand JACOB (1867-1942)
Son of Major-General W. Jacob, Indian Staff Corps.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1877-1884; 6th form; School Prefect.
R.M.C. 1885.
Lieutenant Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1886; I.A. 1887; 3rd Baluch Regiment; Zhob Field Force 1890; Mekran Field Force 1898 (despatches, DSO); Waziristan 1901-1902; C.I.E. 1906; Comdt. 106 Hazara Pioneers 1911-1916; WW1, Kalat Field Force 1915; Mesopotamia 1917-1919 (despatches, CMG, brevet Colonel and ADC to HM The King); Iraq Rebellion 1920 (Brig.-General, despatches); Major-General 1920; G.O.C. Kohat District 1922-1924; Waziristan 1922-1923, commanding Razmak Field Force (despatches); C.B. 1923; C.B.E. 1924; Col.-Comdt. 10th Baluch Regiment 1925; G.O.C. Waziristan District 1924-1926; retired 1926.
Arthur Leslie JACOB (1870-1944)
Son of H.P. Jacob, Bombay Educational Service.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1885-1889; 6th form; School Prefect; XI 1888, 1889; XV 1889.
Gloucestershire Regiment 1891; Lieutenant Indian Staff Corps 1892; Indian Political Dept. 1895-1923; WW1, Lieut-Colonel; Afghan War 1919; C.I.E.; C.S.I.; O.B.E.
Gerald Francis KEATINGE (1872-1965)
Son of M. Keatinge, Salisbury.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1886-1890; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect; XV 1889.
Balliol College, Oxford.
Indian Civil Service; Under-Secretary, Bombay Government 1904-1907; Director of Agriculture 1907-1921; Legislative Council 1916; retired 1921; C.I.E. 1911.
Author: Agricultural Progress in W. India.
Charles Augustus KINCAID CVO (1870-1954)
Born on 8 February 1870 at Indore, Bengal, son of General William Kincaid (1831-1909), Madras Staff Corps, and Martha Pattie Shortt (1843-1933).
Attended Mons Thiboudat School in Paris.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1882-April 1887; 6th form; member of the debating society; French Prize (1885).
Balliol College, Oxford. Matriculated 17 October 1889.
Passed into the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in 1889; arrived in India in 1891; Assistant Collector in Sind 1891-1894; Assistant Judge in Satara 1896-1898; Judicial Assistant in Kathiawar 1898-1905; Agent for Sardars in the Decan 1905-1907 & 1914, and from 1910 Political Secretary; Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) 1911; member of Viceroy’s Council 1917; Judicial Commissioner of Sind 1920-1925; Acting Judge of Bombay High Court 1921-1925; Vice-Consul Cherbourg 1927-1931; Consul Berne 1931-1833; Consul at St Malo. For his services to France in WW1 he was made an Officier de l’Instruction Publique. He retired in 1935.
On 25 July 1904, he was married at Bombay to Katherine Mary Seddon (1873-1955). Children: Dennis Charles Alexander Kincaid (1905-1937) [author of British Social Life in India, 1608-1937], Sheila Katherine Seddon Kincaid (1909-1997), John Brian Shortt Kincaid (1914-1945).
Charles Augustus Kincaid died on 15 August 1954 at St Stephens Hospital, Fulham.
Author: The outlaws of Kathiawar and other studies (Bombay : Printed at the Times Press, 1905); The tale of the tulsi plant, and other studies (Bombay ; London : Times of India Office, 1908); Deccan nursery tales, or, Fairy tales from the south [translated from the Marathi] by C. A. Kincaid; illustrations by M. V. Dhurandhar (London : Macmillan, 1914); The Indian Heroes [A summary of the epic stories of India] (London : Humphrey Milford, 1915); Ishtur Phakde : a gallant Englishman : and other studies (Bombay : Times Press, 1917); A history of the Maratha people . Vol.1, From the earliest times to the death of Shivaji (London : OUP, 1918); Les dieux hindous : conference illustrée prononcée le 23 janvier 1918 (Bombay : L. Peltier, 1918); Tales from the Indian epics; with six illustrations by M.V. Dhurandhar (Bombay : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918); Tales of the Saints of Pandharpur (Translated from the Bhaktivijaya) by C. A. Kincaid (Bombay ; Madras : Humphrey Milford, 1919); The Hindu Gods; and how to recognise them (Bombay, 1919); Shri Krishna of Dwarka and other stories (Bombay : D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co, 1920); Tales of Old Sind (Oxford ; Madras : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1922); An Anthology of Indian Tales (London, etc. : Humphrey Milford ; Oxford University Press, 1922); Our Parsi friends (Bombay : The Times Press, 1922); The Anchorite, and other stories (London Oxford University Press 1922); Tales from the Indian drama (Calcutta : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923); Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat (Karachi : The Daily Gazette Press, Ltd., 1925); A book of golden tales ([3rd ed. London : Humphrey Milford, 1926); Teachers of India (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1927); Successors of Alexander (London : Pasmore, [1929]); Cherbourg and the Cotentin (London : Pasmore & Co, [1930]); Our Hindu Friends (Bombay : Times of India Press, 1930); The land of ‘Ranji’ and ‘Duleep’. With preface by H. H. the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar. (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, ltd, 1931); The thirty-two tales of a throne by C.A. Kincaid and Pandit Govind Ganesh Shouche (Bombay : Times of India Press, 1932); Indian lions [Bombay, 1933]; Forty-four years a public servant (Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1934); The Heroides of Ovid I-XV. Translated into verse by C. A. Kincaid (London ; Norwich : Gibbs & Waller, [1937]); Tales of the Indian cavaliers (London : Macmillan and Co., 1937); Tales of old Ind (Bombay : The Times of India Press, 1938); Indian Christmas Stories (Bombay : Times of India Press, 1939); Heroines of India (Bombay : Macmillan, 1941); Lakshmibai Rani of Jhansi (London : Royal Asiatic Society, 1943).
Willie Alexander Scotland KINCAID (1867-1911)
Son of Major-General William Kincaid (1831-1909), Madras Staff Corps, and Martha Pattie Shortt (1843-1933).
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1882-1884; 6th form.
Entered Royal Engineers 1887; Tirah campaign 1897; Major 1905.
Died in Lahore in 1911.
Walter John LAMBERT (1874-1944)
Son of Sir J. Lambert, K.C.I.E.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1887-1891; 6th form; School Prefect; XI 1890, 1891; XV 1890, 1891.
R.M.C.; East Lancashire Regiment 1894; Lieutenant, Indian Staff Corps, 1897; Brigade Major, Cavalry Brigade, Bangalore, 1911; I.O. Imperial Service Troops; WW1, O.C. 14th Bn. King’s Liverpool Regiment, France and Macedonia 1915-1916; Brigade Commander, Cavalry Brigade, Palestine, 1917-1921 (despatches 6, D.S.O. and two bars); retired as Brigadier-General 1924.
Philip LONSDALE (1873-1947)
Son of W. Lonsdale, Eastbourne.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) 1886-1890; 6th form; XV 1889, 1890.
East Lancashire Regiment 1892; Ashanti Exped. 1900; WW1, Captain; District Officer, N. Nigeria.
Reginald Fendall LOWIS (1867-1962)
Son of E.E. Lowis, Bengal Civil Service.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) 1881-1885.
Indian Woods and Forest Dept.; Assistant Conservator, Andaman Islands, 1895, Assistant Supt. 1897; Deputy Commissioner 1910-1921; acting Chief Commissioner 1918; Trade Censor, London and Egypt 1916-1917.
Edward Bourryau LUARD (1870-1916)
Son of Major-General R.G.A. Luard, C.B. of Ottawa, formerly of 88 Finborough Road, South Kensington. Husband of Louise Luard, MBE, first female mayor of Hereford.
Attended Clifton College.
Attended Sherborne School (The Green) January 1884.
Joined the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry in 1891; Lieutenant 1894; presented with gold medal at Hong Kong in 1894 for gallant services during plague.
WW1, Lieutenant-Colonel in the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 1st Bn. Mentioned in despatches (thrice); awarded the D.S.O. Died of wounds after the retaking of the Ypres Langemarck trenches on 24 April 1916. Commemorated Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, V. A. 23.
Evan MACONOCHIE (1868-1927)
Son of A. Maconochie, Home Office, Whitehall, SW.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1882-1885; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect.
New College, Oxford.
Indian Civil Service; Dep. Supt., Gujarat Revenue Surrey, 1896; Under-Sec. to Government of India, Home Department, 1897-1900; Private Secretary to Maharajah of Mysore 1902-1909; Collector and Commissioner of Division; Agent to the Governor in Kathiawar 1915-1922; C.I.E. 1918; K.C.I.E. 1921
Author: Life in the Indian Civil Service.
Thomas Francis MURRAY (1873-1914)
Son of Thomas James Murray (Bengal Civil Service) and Alice Louisa Gaussen (later Alice Elliott of Coombe, Wimbledon Park, London) of 52 Hauteville, Guernsey. Grandson of the Rev. John E. Murray, rector of Castro Petre (Church of Ireland), Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland.
Attended Elizabeth College, Guernsey (roll no. 2315).
Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1887-December 1891; 6th form.
H.L.I, 1894; North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Malakand F.F. 1898-1899; South African War, “he beguiled his captivity at Pretoria by rewriting Tacitus’ Annals from memory in the best Latin he could muster” (G.G. Coulson, ‘Fourscore Years’).
WW1, Major in the Highland Light Infantry (Indian Expeditionary Force), 1st Bn. Killed at the battle of Festubert on 20 December 1914. Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial, Panel 37 and 38.
Horatio William NELSON (1871-1910)
Son of Rear-Admiral the Hon. M.H. Nelson, Salisbury.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1885-1890; 6th form.
Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1890; adm. Solicitor 1899; Registrar, Supreme Court of Ceylon.
Died at Colombo, 1910.
John George Denman PARTRIDGE (1865-1939)
Son of William Partridge, Tiverton.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) 1878-1881; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect.
Indian Civil Service; served in Madras; retired 1912.
William Reginald PARTRIDGE (1864-1923)
Son of W. Partridge, Tiverton.
Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) 1877-1881; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect.
Passed (9th) into Indian Civil Service 1881.
Mag. And Collector, Mainpuri, N.W.P., 1899; Under-Secretary to U.P. Government, and a Settlement Officer; retired 1910.
Henry PEDLER (1865-?)
Son of William F. Pedler, Sampford Peverell, Tiverton.
Attended Sherborne School (Price’s house) 1880-1882; XV 1881.
Charing Cross and London Dental Hospital; L.D.S. 1890; dental surgeon to Government of Nepal.
Harry Pritchard PEDLER (1865-?)
Son of Lieut-Colonel Pedler, Indian Army.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1881-1883; XV 1882.
Lieutenant 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment; Burma Police 1886-1909.
Johnston PENNEY (1866-1894)
Son of Mrs J. Penney, Sherborne.
Attended Sherborne School (Town/Day boy) 1877-1884; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect; Latin Prose prize, Leweston prize, Sherborne Exhibitioner, 1883; Greek Prose and Verse prize, Parsons prize, Classical Medal 1883, 1884.
Trinity College, Oxford 1885.
Indian Civil Service (passed 14th).
Arrived in India in autumn 1887.
Died from cholera on 24 June 1894 at Unas in the North Western Provinces of India while officiating in charge of the Unas district. Buried with honours at Cawnpore.
Reginald Barlow PLUMER (1871-1939)
Son of C.G. Plumer, Madras.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1884-1888; 6th form; School Prefect.
Mysore Civil Service 1890; Assistant Commissioner 1898; Assistant Secretary to Government Plague Dept 1898-1899; Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) 1910; judicial work in India; Chief Judge, Mysore State, 1924-1927. Retired 1927.
Charles Bradley PRITCHARD (1837-1903)
Son of Rev. C. Pritchard, D.D., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1852-?
Bombay C.S., 1857; President of Madras Salt Commission 1876; C.S.I. 1886; member of Council of Governor of Bombay 1889-1892; K.C.I.E. 1891; member of Council of Governor General of India, and Minister of Public Works, 1892-1896.
Francis Kershaw RAWLINS (1867-1956)
Son of W.F. Rawlins, Limington, Ilchester.
Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1879-1884.
Indigo planter, Behar, India (retired).
Harry Sidney RIX (1871-1959)
Son of W.H. Rix, Tunbridge Wells.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1884-1890; Scholar; 6th form; School Prefect; Head of School 1888-1890; Sherborne Exhibition; shooting viii 1890.
Sizar, Trinity College, Cambridge; 2nd class Classical Tripos 1893.
Indian Civil Service 1893; magistrate, collector, and judge in U.P. 1895-1919; Captain Indian Defence Force, U.P. Horse; V.D. 1919; examiner for Civil Service Commission. Retired 1920.
Guy Le Warren SMALLWOOD (1873-1934)
Son of A. Smallwood, Calcutta.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1886-1889.
Broker in Calcutta.
Harry Hay SPARKES (1858-1929)
Son of J. Sparkes, Bramley, Guildford.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1873-1875.
Deputy Commissioner, Kolar, Mysore, S. India.
Arthur James STURMER (1851-1930)
Son of Mr Sturmer, Exeter.
Attended Sherborne School 1866-1868.
St. Bart’s Hospital (Bentley Prize, Brackenbury Scholar).
I.M.S. 1875; Afghan War 1878-1880; Chin Hills 1893; Surg. Maj. 1887; Surg. Lieut-Col. 1897; Professor of Midwifery, Madras Medical College, 1896; Supt. Gov. Maternity Hospital; retired 1903.
Humphrey Martin TWYNAM (1858-1913)
Son of T. Twynam, Fair Oak, Hampshire.
Attended Sherborne School (Town/Day Boy and School House) 1869-1876; 6th form; School Prefect; XV 1875.
Passed 3rd out of R.M.C.; East Lancashire Regiment 1878; Afghan War 1879-1880 (despatches); Chitral Relief Force 1895; N.W. Frontier of India 1897-1898; A.D.C. to Major-General Bird, commanding Tochi Field Force (despatches); A.D.C. to G. Officer commanding Punjab Frontier Force 1899; Major 1900; South African War 1899-1902; D.S.O. 1902; retired as Lieut-Col. For very gallant action in the Afghan War he was recommended for, but did not receive, the V.C.
Frederick Robert UPCOTT (1847-1918)
Son of J.S. Upcott, Cullompton.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1863-1864; 6th form; XI 1864.
P.W.D. India 1868; Director-General of Indian Railways 1896; Secretary in Public Works 1898-1901; Government Director of Railways 1901-1904; Chairman of Board of Indian Railways 1904-1908; Lieutenant-Colonel, Indian Volunteer Forces; C.S.I. 1900; K.C.V.O 1906; M.Inst.C.E.; Member of Royal Commission on Railways.
Richard Wartyr WALDY (1868-1900)
Third son of Captain Alfred Henry Waldy (1827-1881) OS and Georgina Ann Waldy (née Bradshaw) (1835-1909) of 9 Stanhope Gardens, Queen’s Gate, London.
Attended Mr Hart, Hereford Square, London.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1879-December 1887; 6th form; XV rugby football team 1886, 1887.
2nd Bedfordshire Regiment 1889; Isazai Expedition 1892; Chitral Relief Force 1895 (medal and bar; Died 22 February 1900 of wounds received at Paardeberg, South Africa on 18 February 1900, aged 31. Buried on the banks of the Modder River, South Africa. Memorials include Sherborne School chapel; Bedfordshire Regimental memorial in St Paul’s church, Bedford; Letheringsett, Norfolk; Hanwell Cemetery, Kensington and Chelsea; and the Lady Chapel and windows at St Nicholas, Blakeney, Norfolk.
William WARRY (1854-1937)
Son of W. Warry, Lymington.
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1866-1873; 6th form; Latin Verse and Prose prize 1871, 1872; English Essay prize 1871; Leweston Prize 1873.
Scholar, Exeter College, Oxford, 1873; 1st class Classical Mods. 1875; 3rd class Classics 1877.
Interpreter in Civil Service, Siam, 1878.
Author: translation of Pekin Gazette.
Adviser on Chinese Affairs to Government of Burma 1892. Retired.
WESTCOTT – four brothers of Frederick Brooke Westcott (1857-1918), headmaster of Sherborne School 1892-1908:
Arthur Westcott (1859-1946), Incumbent of San Thomé, Madras, 1887-1892; Principal of the S.P.G. Theological College, Madras, 1887-1891; Secretary for S.P.G., diocese of Madras, 1892-1900.
George Herbert Westcott (1862-1928), S.P.G. Missionary at Cawnpore, 1889-1910; Fellow of Allahabad University, 1894; Hon. Canon of Lucknow, 1906-1910; Bishop of Lucknow, 1910-1928.
Foss Westcott (1863-1949), S.P.G. Missionary at Cawnpore, 1889-1905; Bishop of Chota Nagpur, 1905-1919; Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, 1919-1945; Hon. Canon of St George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, 1920; Acting Chaplain, St Paul’s School, Darjeeling, 1945-1946; President of the Indian Missionary Council.
Robert Basil Westcott (1871-1900), University Mission to Delhi 1896-1900.
Henry WHITEHEAD (1853-1947)
Son of Rev. Alfred Whitehead, Ramsgate. Brother of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Selby Whitehead (1852-1934).
Attended Sherborne School (School House) 1870-1873; 6th form; Latin Verse; Digby Prize 1871; Classical Medal and Sherborne Exhibition 1873; XV 1870-1872 (captain); XI 1871-1873 (captain).
Scholar, Trinity College, Oxford, 1873; 1st class Classics, Mods., 1874; 1st class Classical 1877; Fellow 1877; ordained 1879.
Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta, 1883-1899; Fellow of Calcutta University 1883; Superior of Oxford Mission in Calcutta 1890-1899; Bishop of Madras 1899-1922; Hon. Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, 1920.
Author: Christ in the Indian Villages, Christian Education in India.
D.D.; C.B.E.
William Mackworth YOUNG (1840-1924)
Son of Captain Sir George, R.N., 2nd Bart., of Cookham, Berkshire, and Susan, daughter of William Mackworth Praed. Brother of Edward Mallet Young (1839-1900), headmaster of Sherborne School 1878-1892.
Attended Eton; Scholar.
King’s College, Cambridge; B.A. 1863; M.A. 1866. Fellow, 1863-70.
Entered the Indian Civil Service, 1862; served in the Punjab from 1863; Secretary to the Punjab Government, 1880-7; Financial Commissioner, 1889-95; Resident at Mysore; Chief Commissioner for Coorg, 1895-7. Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, 1897-1902. C.S.I., 1890; K.C.S.I., 1897. Retired to St Leonards, 1902, where he gave active support to Missionary Societies.
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