William Henry Sleeman

Sleeman in 1850 Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman (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. The first outbreak of lathyrism in India in 1844 was reported by him. Provided by Wikipedia
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