king. Sanderson wrote a book, Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India, based to a large extent on his life at Morlay in the Biligirirangan Hills. He died of pulmonary phthisis in Chennai at the home of his brother-in-law Dr (later Sir) Arthur M. Branfoot in 1892 shortly after marriage and on the way back for a long leave in England. An obituary noted that he was a vegetarian while another noted his refusal to accept an invitation to dine with Prince Albert Victor who was visiting Mysore. An 1899 newspaper correspondent and Sir Theodore James Tasker, in an article published by the Kipling Society in 1971 suggested that "Petersen Sahib, the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India" in the Jungle Book story, Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling, was a reference to George Peress Sanderson. References External links Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India: their haunts and habits from personal observations; with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants (1879) 1848 births 1892 deaths British hunters People from Cockermouth People of the Kingdom of Mysore People educated at Kingswood School, Bath 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in India