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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 | GIBSON | | Given names | Alexander James | | Awards | FCH | | Birth | 14 May 1877 | | Term at CH | 1895-98 | | Academic achievements | Top of his year; Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant conservator, 2nd grade, Forest Dept. | | Career | Posted to the Punjab. Instructor Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun 1905. Deputy conservator 1906. Imperial Forest economist Dehra Dun 1908. Deputy conservator and political assistant to superintendent, Simla Hill States 1909-10. Conservator 1921. Conservator Bihar & Orissa 1925. In 1912 he visited the principal resin factories in France & USA to investigate and report on resin production | | Retirement | Retired 1929 | | Other | He spoke Russian fluently. He narrowly escaped an attempt to murder him in the Simla Hills. His son, born at ""Talland" | | Ref | Simla 12 August 1918 |
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