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Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906
Date transcribed | 2012-05-21 | Transcribed by | Robert Charnock | Comment | Vol 1 F.W. Abbatt to RHE Hutton-Squire
At a meeting of the Coopers Hill Society in 1959 the lack of any biographical record of students admitted to the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, was discussed. This register is an attempt to complete a record. It may be regarded as an appendix to ‘A Short History of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill’ by J.G.P. Cameron, C.I.E., issued by the Coopers Hill Society for private circulation in 1960.
The names of the students admitted have been taken from the calendars published annually by authority and preserved in the library of the India Office, Whitehall. The biographical details have been compiled mainly from information in the magazines mentioned on page 28 of Cameron’s History.
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| Surname | HOWARD | | Given names | William Henry Ker | | Awards | OBE (1918) | | Death | 1 January 1959, aged 93 yrs | | Term at CH | 1885-88 | | Academic achievements | Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer | | Career | Posted to State Railways. Executuve engineer 1898. Superintending engineer 1913. Engineer in chief Oudh & Rohil Khand Railway 1913. Chief engineer 1918 | | Military & War Service | Special duty India Office 1918 | | Retirement | Retired September 1921 | | Other | His son Brigadier T.F.K. Howard in a letter reporting his father's death wrote "" a member of another service cannot fail to be struck by the longevity, as well as the distinguished careers, of your members (CH Society) who have recently passed away. Servants of the Old Empire required both physical as well as moral stamina, but surely few fellowships of such can approach your record of both."" |
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