Robert Scott Troup
Robert Scott Troup CMG CIE FRS (13 December 1874 – 1 October 1939) was a British forestry expert. He spent the first part of his career in Colonial India, returning to England in 1920 to head Oxford's School of Forestry.
Education
Troup was educated at
William Schlich
.
Career
Troup joined the
Dehra Dun
, India. In 1915 he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Forests. In 1917–1918 he also served as Controller of Timber Supplies with the Indian Munitions Board.
He ended his
Burma
.
In 1920, Troup returned to the
William Schlich, under whom he had studied at Cooper's Hill.[1] Troup was elected a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
.
From 1924 to 1935 he was founding Director of Oxford's Imperial Forestry Institute. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1926.[2]
He was appointed
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
(CMG) in 1934.
Works
Troup's three-volume work The Silviculture of Indian Trees was published in 1921. He also wrote Indian Forest Utilisation, Pinus Longifolia, Silvicultural Systems, A Manual of Forest Mensuration, Forestry and State Control and Exotic Forest Trees in the British Empire (1932).
Footnotes
- ^ Burley, Jeffery, et al. 2009. "A History of Forestry at Oxford", British Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 2., pp.236-261. Accessed: 6 May 2012.
- S2CID 129368358.
- ^ "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 5.
References
- Obituary, The Times, 3 October 1939
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