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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 | PENNY | | Given names | Edmund | | Awards | C.I.E. (1900), M.I.C.E. | | Birth | 1852 | | Death | 13 August 1919, aged 67 yrs | | Wifes name | Margaret (died 2 April 1949) | | Fathers name | Alfred Penny M.I.C.E. | | Term at CH | 1871-74 | | Sports career | Colours for cricket, rugby and rowing | | Academic achievements | Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer | | Career | Posted to State Railways. Transferred to Public Works Dept Central Provinces 1875, Executive engineer 1883. Planned and carried out Nagpur waterworks. Assistant secretary to Chief Commissioner 1891. Superintending engineer and secretary to Chief Commissioner 1899 | | Retirement | Retired 1902 | | Other | Penny had a record of arduous work during six years of famine, which undermined his health. He had four sons serving in the 1914-18 war | | Ref | Obit Coopers Hill Mag. XI 7 |
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