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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 | RUSSELL | | Given names | Alexander Sherwood | | Birth | 5 March 1853 | | Death | 24 November 1932 | | Wifes name | (1) Nellie Rivaza (died 1899), (2) Gwendolyn Reid | | Wifes fathers name | (2) W. Legge Reid, MD | | Fathers name | Alexander Wood Russell, Bengal Civil Service | | Primary Education | Haileybury, Cheltenham | | Term at CH | 1872-75 | | Academic achievements | Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer. | | Career | Posted to Madras. Assistant to chief engineer and under secretary to Gov't, irrigation branch 1882. Executive engineer 1886 | | Retirement | Retired 17 June 1899 | | Other | One of the founders of the Coopers Hill Journal 'The Oracle'. The others were A.D. Macleane, E. Du Cane Smith and M. Leslie. The cartoonists were G.A. Anderson and C.F. Gilbert. Russell was the last survivor of the group. Author of 'History of the Buckingham Canal Project' compiled for the Gov't of Madras 1898. | | Ref | Obit Coopers Hill Mag. XII 27 |
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