William Henry Sleeman
1788–1856
Army officer and administrator. Lieutenant, Bengal army, 1814; captain, 1825; major, 1837; lieutenant-colonel, 1843; colonel, 1853; major-general, 1854. Magistrate in central India, 1825–35. Head of a commission for the suppression of thuggee and dacoity, 1839–42. Resident of Lucknow, 1848.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
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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