Abstract:Philip Herbert Cowell was born on 7 August 1870, at Calcutta, the second of the five children of Herbert and Alice Cowell. His father, born at Ipswich in 1837, who was a barrister, first in India and then in England, of the Middle Temple, was related to E. B. Cowell, professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge, and to J. E. Cowell Weldon, successively headmaster of Harrow, bishop of Calcutta and dean of Durham: his mother, born in 1842, was the third daughter of Newson Garrett, merchant, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Mr Garre… Show more
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