Alexander Cunningham
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British army engineer and amateur archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India.