Catalogue description Enriquez, Colin Metcalfe, b 1884, Major, author, pen-name Theophilus

Published volumes and unpublished manuscripts by Colin Metcalfe Enriquez, who often published under the pen-name Theophilus.

Enriquez was born in 1884, joining the Indian Army in 1905, serving with the 21st Punjabis in Northern India and with the Kachin Rifles in Burma. First posted to Burma in 1913, he retired there in 1928. He often published under the pen-name Theophilus, a name taken from his mother's grandfather, Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, British Resident in Delhi at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

Enriquez's writings display an informed understanding and love of the Burmese people, their customs and culture. The Japanese invasion of Burma, in 1942, forced Enriquez to leave Magok for Delhi, where he worked in the Far Eastern Bureau of the Ministry of Information. Enriquez joined the Royal Central Asian Society in 1946, and eventually returned to Burma.

Biographical information derived from Leach with Farrington, Strolling About on the Roof of the World (2003), pp. 136-7.

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