Norman Chevers

Norman Chevers (1818–1886) was an English physician and surgeon of the Bengal Medical Service.

[1] He was born at Greenhithe in Kent, the son of the naval surgeon Forbes Macbean Chevers and his wife Anne Talman.

[2][3] After graduation Chevers worked for nine years at Guy's Hospital, researching in physiology, while in private practice in Upper Stamford Street, south London.

He retired from medical work in India in 1876, with the rank Deputy Surgeon General.

[8] He reported as true the origin of sati being the need to prevent wives poisoning husbands, in order to take a new lover.