John Zephaniah Holwell 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.
- Occupation
- surgeon, immunologist, physician
- Citizenship
- England
- Born
- September 17, 1711
- Died
- November 5, 1798
