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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 | IZAT | | Given names | John | | Awards | CIE (1918), A.M.I.C.E. | | Birth | 17 July 1879 | | Death | 13 October 1966 | | Fathers name | Alexander Izat, CIE, and Margaret Dewar Izat, of Balliliesk, Dollar, Perthshire | | Primary Education | Dollar Academy | | Term at CH | 1897-00 | | Sports career | Colours for rugby and rowing.; Awarded the O'Callaghan gold medal | | Academic achievements | Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer, 3rd grade | | Career | Posted to Public Works Dept. United Provinces. Transferred to State Railways. Executive engineer 1908. Superintendent of works Sara-Seragunj Railway Construction 1913. Superintending engineer 1924. Officiating agent Oudh & Rohilkhand Railway 1925 | | Military & War Service | Military service in Mesopotamia 1917-18 (dispatches, CIE). Lieut. I.A.R.O. | | Retirement | Retired 1927 | | Other | His father was a distinguished railway engineer in India. At Coopers Hill John Izat, R.P. Hadow and A.M. Ronce were a staunch triumvirate excelling in work and play; all 3 men won their colours in rugby and rowing; Knighthoods were bestowed upon RPH & AMR; They were the 'Holy Trinity'; Rowed bow in the 2nd Eight which won the Junior Eights in the Staines Regatta 1899; After retirement farmed in Scotland; Ardmorag, Victoria Crescent, Crieff, Perthshire |
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