William Henry Sleeman
British colonial administrator
Died when: 67 years 186 days (810 months)Star Sign: Leo
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.
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