Thomas Claverhill Jerdon
1811–72
Zoologist. Joined the East India Company as assistant surgeon in the Madras service in 1835; later civil surgeon at Telicherry and major. Resigned from government service in 1868 and returned to England in 1872. Author of works on the birds and mammals of India.
Source
Lightman ed. 2004, 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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