George P. Sanderson
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1848 – 1892
Who was George P. Sanderson?
George Peress Sanderson was born in India in 1848, the son of Rev. Daniel Sanderson, who was a Methodist missionary in India from 1842 to 1867. George Sanderson was sent home for schooling to his father’s family in Cockermouth, Cumbria. He was at the Wesley Kingswood School, Bath, from 1859 to 1863, returning to India in 1864 at the age of 16.
During his employment in the irrigation department of Mysore with the British Government in India he found time for big game hunting which included tigers, elephants and the Indian Bison. He introduced a novel way of catching wild elephants for subsequent taming and training in forestry work. Instead of trapping elephants in pits, he tried a method of driving herds into a kheddah, a fenced, ditched enclosure. This technique was a spectacular success and in 1889 he organised a demonstration to entertain Prince Albert, Duke of Clarence & Avondale, when he visited India.
G. P. Sanderson wrote a book called Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India. He died of pulmonary phthisis in Chennai in 1892.
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