Sir William Sleeman | |
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 Sleeman in 1850 | |
| Born | William Henry Sleeman 8 August 1788 |
| Died | 10 February 1856 (aged 67) At sea near British Ceylon |
| Occupation(s) | Army officer, civil servant |
| Known for | Thuggee suppression |
Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman KCB (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India. He is best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee. He also discovered the holotype specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Titanosaurus indicus in Jabalpur in 1828.[1] The first outbreak of lathyrism in India in 1844 was reported by him.[2]
- ^ R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43
- ^ Lal SB (October 1949). "Lathyrism in Bihar". Ind Med Gaz. 84 (10): 468–472. PMC 5189574. PMID 29014658.