Proby Cautley
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| Born | Proby Cautley 3 January 1802 |
| Died | 25 January 1871 (aged 69) |
Sir Proby Thomas Cautley,
Proby Cautley was educated at Charterhouse School (1813–18), followed by the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe (1818–19). After less than a year there, he was commissioned second lieutenant and dispatched to India, joining the Bengal Presidency artillery in Calcutta. In 1825, he assisted Captain Robert Smith, the engineer in charge of constructing the Eastern Yamuna canal, also called the Doab canal. He was in charge of this canal for 12 years between 1831 and 1843. By 1836, he was Superintendent-General of Canals.
Ganges canal
In 1840 Cautley reported on the proposed
Digging of the canal began in April 1842.
He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Roorkee college, named the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854 and now known as IIT Roorkee. One of the twelve student hostels of IIT Roorkee is named after him.[5]
Dehradun canal network
While the first canal in Dehradun was laid in the 17th century, Cautley significantly expanded the network in the 1850s. Five canals were laid in the city that irrigated the surrounding villages and produced a cooler microclimate. Since 2000, when the city became the state capital, most of the heritage canal network has been covered or demolished to expand the roads for ever-increasing traffic.[6]
Fossil work
Cautley was actively involved in
He also contributed numerous memoirs, some written in collaboration with Falconer, to the Proceedings of the
Writings
Cautley's writings indicated his large and varied interests. He wrote on a submerged city, twenty feet underground, in the
In 1860 he published a full account of the making of the Ganges canal.
Awards and honours
In 1837, he received
The plant genus Cautleya is named in his honour.[7]
A student hostel (Cautley Bhawan) in
Death
After the Ganges canal was opened in 1854 he went back to England, where he was made KCB, and from 1858 to 1868 he occupied a seat on the Council of India. He died at Sydenham, near London, on 25 January 1871.
Works
- Cautley, Proby T. (1860). Report on the Ganges Canal Works: from their commencement until the opening of the Canal in 1854. London: Smith, Elder. (2 vols.)
- Cautley, Proby Thomas (1864). Ganges canal: a disquisition on the heads of the Ganges of Jumna canals, North-western Provinces. London.
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Notes
- ^ History of Physical Anthropology - Frank Spencer - Google Books Retrieved 2016-11-03.
- ^ a b Stone (2002) p.18
- ^ Upper Ganges Canal The Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 12, p. 138.
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- ^ a b "Cautley Bhawan". IIT Roorkee. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
- ^ "The missing canals of Dun - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ Bream, Roland (2013), "An overview of Cautleya", The Plantsman, New Series, 12 (2): 122–125
References
- Brown, Joyce (1980), "A Memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F.R.S., 1802–1871, Engineer and Palaeontologist", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 34 (2): 185–225, S2CID 145414793
- Stone, Ian (2002), Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy (Cambridge South Asian Studies), Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 392, ISBN 0-521-52663-9
- Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. pp. 333–6. OL 23336661M.
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