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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Cooke    
First Name(s)  Theodore    
Year of Birth  1836    
Entry  Born 1836 : son of Rev. John Cooke, Rector of Ardinan, Co. Tipperary : educated at Dublin University, highly distinguished : went to India as Engineer of the Bombay-Baroda line, 1860 : erected the Bassein bridge, 1865 : Principal of Civil Engineering College at Poona, 1865 : acted as Director of Public Instruction in Bombay : Director of Botanical Survey of Western India, and Director of Agriculture : Fellow of the Bombay University : retired in 1893, and was Sub-Director of the Imperial Institute : author of Manual of Heat, Manual of Geology, Flora of Bombay Presidency : C.I.E. in 1891.     
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