Mark Thornhill

Mark Bensley Thornhill (25 April 1822 – 14 March 1900), was the British district magistrate and collector of the district of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India, at the onset of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

In early 1857, he was the first to report what he thought was an unusual movement of chapatis.

He wrote ''Indian fairy tales'' (1879) and his memoirs ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny'' (1884). Provided by Wikipedia