Colonel L. A. Waddell

F. W. Thomas
1939 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland  
Through the death (September 20, 1938) of Lieutenant-Colonel L. A. Waddell, at his residence, Ardsloy, Craigmore, Rothesay, in his 85th year, the Society, which he joined in 1892, has lost one of its oldest members, a not infrequent contributor to its Journal, and a representative of a service which, while primarily interested in matters outside the Society's ordinary scope, has furnished notable participants in its researches. The course which he followed from medicine and sanitation through
more » ... cal, and then more widely extended, Buddhist Archaeology to Himalayan Buddhism and ethnography and Tibetan religion, ritual, art, and history was still within the Society's horizon when he tackled the newly discovered Indus civilization. When he launched sweeping theories concerning " Aryan " beginnings of Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, he was receding somewhat; and the last stages, represented by his publications concerning a Phoenician or Trojan origin of the British race and concerning the Edda as a British survival of Sumero-Aryan religious and historical tradition, were decidedly beyond its frontier.
doi:10.1017/s0035869x00089577 fatcat:gazuvtrtl5eqxjfl6phnkkdima