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 Register of Students Admitted 1871-1906 - REIC Coopers Hill

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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 Camerons History.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "TROUP " in "Register of Students Admitted 1871-1906 - REIC Coopers Hill" Surname  TROUP     
Given names  Robert Scott    
Awards  CMG (1934), CIE (1920), MA, DSc, FRS, FCH    
Birth  1875    
Marriage  1901    
Death  1 October 1939, aged 64 yrs    
Wifes name  Elizabeth Campbell Mortimer    
Children  2 sons, 1 daughter    
Primary Education  The Gymnasium Grammar School & Aberdeen University    
Term at CH  1894-97    
Career  Appointed to the Indian Forest Service as assistant conservator. Posted to Burma. Instructor Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun 1900. Deputy conservator 1905. Forest economist Dehra Dun 1906. Superintendent forest working plans and silviculturist 1909-10.Silviculturist 1911. Assistant inspector general of forests India 1915. Conservator 1921.    
Military & War Service  Controller timber supplies (under Sir Thomas Holland, Indian Munitions Board) 1917-18.     
Retirement  Retired 1924    
Other  Appointed to Chair of Forestry, Oxford University 1920. Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Director Imperial Forestry Institute 1924-25. Attended Empire Forestry Conferences Canada, Australia, South Africa. Author of 'Indian Forest Utilization', 'The Silviculture of Indian Trees' 1921, 3 vols, Exotic Forest Trees in the British Empire', 1932. At the time of his death he was engaged on a treatise on Colonial Forest Administration     
Ref  Obit Coopers Hill Mag. XIII 7 The Times 3 October 1939    
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The Royal Indian Engineering College (RIEC) was established at Coopers Hill, Surrey, England in 1870 to train Civil Engineers for the Indian Public Works Department.
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