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John Falconer, British Library A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia
Commercial, India
Assistant at Jeffrey and Co. (tailors), Simla, 1855; 'photographic artist', Simla 1856-64; advertising as a builder in 1865, but as a photographer again in 1870. His son Charles became a fakir at the Jakko shrine, Simla (see Simla past and present, pp.190-1).
C.W. DeRussett, builder, Simla, 1868, 1869 (Thacker’s).
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