William Henry Sykes
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Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India and was specifically known for his work with the Indian Army as a politician, Indologist and or
William Henry Sykes by Whitlock, 1860s
Sykes in 1857
Mountstuart Elphinstone
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Mountstuart Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay where he is credited with the opening of several
William Henry Sykes
…He became a captain on 25 January 1819 and travelled for four years across Europe from 1820. He returned to India in October 1824 and was appointed by Mountstuart Elphinstone as a statistical reporter to the Bombay government. He then collected statistical and natural history researches, and completed a census of the population…
Mountstuart Elphinstone 1911
Mountstuart Elphinstone's memorial in St Paul's Cathedral
Elphinstone College, Mumbai, established in 1856