John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Commercial, Burma
Early proposer of the Moulmein Photographic Society in 1856 (although this may never actually have been formed). Possibly learned photography from George Dawson (qv), by whom he was employed in the mid-1850s. Advertising as a photographer in Rangoon in 1863-4, possibly sold business to Bentley and Jackson (qv).
1865 Pascal and Co., timber merchants and agents, Rangoon
1869 Manager, Pegu Sawmill, Rangoon
1872-3 Timber merchant, Rangoon
1874 Moved to Calcutta, and in various employments up to last reference in almanac in 1883. Address given as 3 Cooper’s Lane, Calcutta.
1884 Not listed.
Was later a timber merchant and moved to Calcutta in about 1873.
See: C. L. Keeton, King Thibaw and the Ecological Rape of Burma (1974) for details of some of his activities.
Calister Georgiana Pascal, his daughter, married, aetat 22, John Richard Walsh, master mariner, at St Matthew’s, Moulmein, 31 Feb 1883.[1]
Footnotes
- Λ IOR/N/1/290 f. 318.
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