Samuel Satthianadhan (1860 – 4 April 1906) was an Indian writer, educationist and social reformer.

Early life

Satthianadhan was born in 1860 to missionary Rev W. T. Satthianadhan and his wife Annal Arockiam (anglicized to Anna John). Rev. Satthianadhan was a first-generation Hindu convert and was known as Thiruvengadam before his conversion. Satthianadhan Family Album, pp 25 His ancestors were High Caste Hindu Vaishnavaite Balija Ruling Naickers family from

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. Satthianadhan had his schooling at Anglican High School,

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and joined Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1878. Satthianadhan returned to Madras in 1883 and joined the Indian government service.

Career

Satthianadhan served as a headmaster of Rajahmundry School from 1883 to 1885 when he was appointed as a lecturer in the Government Arts College, Kumbakonam. In about 1890, Satthianadhan was appointed Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy at the

Presidency College, Madras Presidency College is an art, commerce, and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. On 16 October 1840, this school was established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school, and then a gra ...

Family

Satthianadhan married Krupabai (1861–1893), daughter of Haripunt Khisty, a Maharashtrian Brahmin convert in 1883. Krupabai is the first Indian woman novelist to write in English. On Krupabai's death in 1893, Satthianadhan married Kamala who was 13 years younger to him.

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graduated from the Presidency College, Madras in 1898, becoming the first woman in South India to complete her graduation. Satthianadhan Family Album, pp 148

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Satthianadhan, S. 1860 births 1906 deaths Academic staff of Presidency College, Chennai Writers from British India People from the Madras Presidency