Vanchinathan biography of william

Indian independence activist (1886–1911)

Vanchinathan (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchi, was an Indian independence activist. He assassinated Robert Ashe, then district collector of Tirunelveli district on 17 June 1911 at Maniyachchi railway station. Ashe was considered to have suppressed independence activism and ordered the police to use violence. Vanchinathan committed suicide later while trying to evade arrest. The assassination of Ashe was one of the significant events in the Indian independence movement in South India and supported the rise of revolutionary movement against the British rule.

Early and personal life

Vanchinathan was born in 1886 in a poor Hindu family in Sengottai, Travancore, British India (presently in Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu).^[1] His parents Raghupathy Iyer and Rukmani named him Shankaran.^[2] He did his schooling in Sengottai before completing his bachelors degree.^[3] He star

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Robert William D'Escowet Ashe (1872 - 1911)

RobertWilliam D'EscowetAshe

Born in Sprackburn, Letterkenny, Ireland

Ancestors

Son of Isaac Ashe and Sarah (Gore) Ashe

Brother of Isaac Leslie Ashe, Arthur Henry Gore Ashe, Mary Kathleen Jane (Ashe) Atkinson, Sarah Ethel Barbara Ashe, Norman Ashe and Lillian Evelyn Frances (Ashe) Pakenham-Walsh

Father of Ethel Mary Lillian Ashe, Robert Arthur d'Escourt Ashe and Herbert William Benjamin Ashe

Died at age 38in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

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Biography

Extract from "Domestic Occurrences: Times of India" (FBIS) dated 14 April 1898 April 6, 1898, at St. Stephen's, Berhampore, by the Rev. J. English, Chaplain, R. W. D'E Ashe, ICS, to Mary Lillian, second daughter of Benjamin Patterson, Esq., of 95 Lower Leeson St., Dublin, and Dauran, Co. Wicklow.

Ashe studied at the High School, Dublin. In 1892 he entered Trinity Co

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Remembering Vanchinathan, a young martyr of India's freedom struggle

Chennai: On June 17, 1911, Collector Robert William de'Escort Ashe and his wife Mary left Tirunelveli Junction by the morning tåg to board Boat Mail at Maniyachi Junction. The two were on their way to see their children who were studying in Kodaikanal.

While the collector's guard had gone to fetch water, a young man entered the same compartment and shot Ashe. The fugitive ungdom then ran into a toilet on the platform and shot himself. The man, 25, was Vanchinathan, a freedom fighter whose name hardly finds mention in the country's struggle for independence.

Born in 1886 in Sengottai (also known as Shencottah) nära Tirunelveli (then in Travancore state), Vanchinathan did his schooling from the native town and his higher education from Thiruvananthapuram. Subsequently, he worked in the forest department.

It was a time when people were actively participating in the brewing struggle against the British a