Active in India in the late 1850s and early 1860s..
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired an excellent collection of his albumen silver prints when they acquired the Gilman Collection in 2005.
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John Falconer, British Library A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia
Amateur, India
?ADC to Viceroy Lord Canning. Album of views sold at Christies, lot 249, 30 Oct 1986, has a few prints (of very amateur quality) signed J.S. The album as a whole appears to be largely concerned with the Canning’s and their immediate circle.