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 Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906

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Date transcribed2012-05-21
Transcribed byRobert Charnock
CommentVol 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.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "BURKITT" in "Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906 " Surname  BURKITT    
Given names  Francis Holy    
Awards  CIE (1931), OBE (1918)    
Birth  5 July 1880    
Marr  1905    
Death  3 October 1952    
Wifes name  Anna    
Wifes fathers name  Rev. John Trotter, Rector of Ardrahan & Kilgalgan, Co. Galway    
Primary Education  Trinity College, Dublin    
Term at CH  1900-03    
Sports career  All 17 matches in which he played half-back during the Rugby season 1902-03 were won by Coopers Hill    
Academic achievements  At Coopers Hill; Vice-President's Scholarship. Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer, 3rd grade    
Career  Posted to Punjab Public Works Dept. Irrigation Branch. Constructed Ferozpur weir cum railway bridge, River Sutlej. Reconstructed damaged weir on Sutlej at Islam. Inventor of the 'Walton' head regulator gates and 'headless' discharge meters in canals. Rose to chief engineer and secretary to Gov't. Punjab, NW Frontier Provinces    
Military & War Service  Mentioned in dispatches on mona-military operations NW Frontier. 2nd Lieut. Punjab Volunteer Rifles. Military operations in Swat. WW2 Technical post in Ministry of Home Security    
Retirement  Retired 1935    
Other  Constructed the Delta Barrage, Egypt. Author of paper 'Reinforced Concrete Syphons' Punjab Engineering Conference    
Ref  Coopers Hill Mag.IV 5, XV 8 & Obit The Times 5 Nov 1952    
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