William Henry Sykes
1790–1872
Naturalist and military officer in the East India Company. Statistical reporter to the Bombay government, 1824–31. Royal commissioner on lunacy, 1835–45. Elected to the board of directors of the East India Company, 1840; chairman, 1856. FRS 1834.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, ODNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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