John Zephaniah Holwell
1711 CE – 1798 CE
John Zephaniah Holwell (17 September 1711 – 5 November 1798) was a surgeon, an employee of the British East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal (1760). He was also one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities and was an early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism.
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Born · 1711 CE
1756 CEBlack Hole Of Calcutta ControversyThe Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab…
Died · 1798 CE
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Siraj ud-Daulah