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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 | LEES | | Given names | Oswald Campbell | | Awards | CSI (1912) | | Birth | March 1857 | | Death | 11 March 1945, aged 88 yrs | | Wifes name | Ethel | | Wifes fathers name | J.B. Worgan, Indian Civil Service | | Fathers name | Sir John Campbell Lees, Chief Justice of the Bahamas | | Children | 1 son, 1 daughter | | Term at CH | 1875-78 | | Sports career | Rowed 5 in the 1877 crew | | Academic achievements | Practical course with H. Crawshay & Sons, Gateshead. Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer | | Career | Under secretary Gov't. of India 1897-01. Transferred to Burma 1906. Chief engineer and secretary to Gov't of Burma 1909. Recalled after retirement by Gov't of India to report on Bengal waterways and proposed Grand Trunk Canal Project 1913 | | Military & War Service | WW1 Served with Royal Engineers and RAF 1918-22 | | Retirement | Retired 1912 |
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