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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 | BARNETT | | Given names | Walter George | | Birth | 29 May 1868 | | Marr | 1937 | | Death | 17 February 1958, aged 89 yrs, at Norwich | | Wifes name | Miss E. Susanah S. Thorold, of Eaton. Norwich (died 1946) | | Fathers name | George Barnett, formerly GIP Railway | | Children | 2 sons | | Term at CH | 1887-90 | | Academic achievements | At Coopers Hill 2nd year prizeman in physical laboratory work; 3rd year Scholarship in applied mechanics; Passed for the Indian Public Service, but disqualified medically | | Career | Served one year in Siam. Appointed G I P Railway as assistant engineer and rose to acting agent 1923 | | Retirement | Retired 1928 | | Other | Returned to India twice for special work on railways. Author of 'Railway Electrification', 'Bombay Engineering Congress', 'Notes on GIP Railway Statistics' | | Ref | The Times 20 Feb 1958 |
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