Royal Indian Engineering College
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51°26′25″N 0°34′12″W / 51.4402°N 0.5701°W The Royal Indian Engineering College (or RIEC) was a British college of
The college was colloquially referred to as Cooper's Hill and I.C.E. College (I.C.E. being an acronym for Indian Civil Engineering).[1]
History
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The college educated about 50 students a year, who paid fees of £150 each. The curriculum included pure and applied mathematics, construction, architectural design, surveying, mechanical drawing, geometry, physics, geology, accounts, Hindustani, and the history and geography of India.[4]
By the late 1870s the college was training more civil engineers than were required in India; but, rather than scaling down its activities, Chesney broadened them. From 1878, the college began to train candidates for the Indian Telegraph Department.
In the face of competition from new training facilities for engineers elsewhere (notably at the new "redbrick" universities), the college closed on 13 October 1906.[8]
Architecture
The principal building at Cooper's Hill was a mansion house erected c. 1865 for the unprincipled company promoter, Baron Albert Grant, to a semi-Gothic design by F. & H. Francis. The conversion of the house for educational use, the design of the interiors, and the addition of a new south wing (including a chapel) were undertaken by the architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.[9]
Rugby football team
In its day, the college's
By the 1890s, the team was deemed of medium strength, and a long way behind the form of its heyday. This was put down to boys leaving school earlier than they had previously, thus the team became composed of men who were physically smaller in stature and physique than their predecessors.[1] It boasted the following internationals who played for their countries whilst attending the college:
Stephen Finney (first capped 1872)
Henry Marsh (first capped 1873)
John Davidson (first capped 1873)
Josiah Edward Paul (first capped 1875)
- W. C. Hutchinson(first capped 1876)
P. L. A. Price (first capped 1877)
F. D. Fowler (first capped 1878)
F. Dawson (first capped 1878)
N. F. MacLeod (first capped 1879)
After closure
After the college moved out in 1906, the buildings stood empty until bought in 1911 by Baroness Cheylesmore for use as a private home.[10]
Later, the site became Shoreditch College of Education, a teacher's college specializing in handicraft education, before becoming the Runnymede Campus of
Cultural references
- The college is mentioned by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Stalky & Co. (1899): one of the main characters, M'Turk, following schooling at the fictionalised United Services College, is supposed to be "going up for Cooper's Hill".
Presidents
- Lt Col. Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, 1872–1880
- Gen. Sir Alexander Taylor, 1880–1896
- Col. John Pennycuick, 1896–1900
- Col. Sir John Walter Ottley, 1900–1906[12]
Other staff
Staff at the college included:[13]
- Calcott Reilly, Professor of Construction, 1872–1897[14]
- William Cawthorne Unwin, Professor of Hydraulics and Mechanics, 1872–1884
- Arthur Herbert Church, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, 1888–1900
- Peter Martin Duncan, Lecturer in Geology and Mineralogy, 1872–1890
- Harry Govier Seeley, Lecturer in Geology and Mineralogy, 1890–1905
- Lt George Sydenham Clarke, Professor of Geometrical Drawing, 1871–1880
- Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich, Professor of Forestry, 1885–1905
- Alfred Lodge, Professor of Mathematics, 1884-1904[15]
- Joseph Wolstenholme, Professor of Mathematics, 1871–1889
- John Burrough, School chaplain 1903-06.[16]
- Herbert McLeod, Professor of Chemistry
- Charles Alfred Barber, botanist
- William H. White, architecture
- George Minchin, Professor of Applied Mathematics
- Dietrich Brandis
- Harry Marshall Ward, botanist
- Horace Bell (engineer)
Alumni
- Ali Nawaz Jung Bahadur, engineer
- George Charles Beresford, photographer
- Herbert George Billson, forester
- John Boyle, politician
- David Carnegie, explorer
- Lt Col Sir Peter Clutterbuck, soldier and forester
- George Coles, cricketer
- John Davidson, rugby union player
- Stephen Finney, rugby union international
- Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer, botanist
- Frederick Gebbie, civil engineer
- Henry Guinness, civil engineer and banker
- Charlton Harrison, civil engineer
- William Hutchinson, rugby union international
- Christopher Ling, cricketer
- Francis McClean, civil engineer and pioneer aviator
- Henry Marash, rugby union international
- Arthur Edward Osmaston, naturalist
- Bertram Beresford Osmaston, forester
- Josiah Edward Paul, rugby union international
- Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, soldier
- Hugh Theodore Pinhey, soldier
- Petley Price, rugby union international
- Frederick Campbell Rose, civil engineer
- Robert Scott Troup, forester
- Frederick Sprott, cricketer and engineer
- John Claude White, engineer and photographer
- Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne, railway executive
See also
References
Notes
- ^ a b Marshall, Francis, Football; the Rugby union game, (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited)
- ^ Farrington 1976, pp. 135–6.
- ^ Farrington 1976, p. 136.
- ^ Farrington 1976, p. 137.
- ^ Farrington 1976, pp. 137–8.
- ^ Farrington 1976, pp. 138.
- .
- ^ Farrington 1976, p. 138.
- ISBN 0-14-071021-3.
- ^ Brunel University - Coopers Hill, Runnymede Archived July 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Audley Group, press release, "Audley Retirement completes purchase of fourteenth site," 08 June 2016 : accessed 06 October 2018
- ^ Farrington 1976, p. 149.
- ^ A full list of staff appears in Farrington 1976, pp. 149–51.
- ^ The Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill (1871-1906)
- Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 13 April 2014
- ^ "Burrough, John (BRH892J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Bibliography
- Farrington, Anthony (1976). The Records of the East India College, Haileybury, & other institutions. London: H.M.S.O. pp. 135–51.
- Hornsey, Richard (2022). Imperial Engineers: The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.