Proby Thomas Cautley
British palaeontologist (1802-1871) · Scientists · Died at 69
Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, KCB, was an English engineer and palaeontologist who is best known for having conceived and supervised the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India.
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Stratford St. Mary church
The lock on the River Stour in Stratford St. Mary
Charterhouse School, 1808, three years before Cautley's arrival there.
East India House c. 1817
Addiscombe cadets sketched by a fellow cadet seven years after Cautley had left the college.
A group of professors at Addiscombe
British and Dutch vessels rounding the Cape of Good Hope in the late 18th centuryAwards
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The canal stretches some 350 miles between its headworks at Haridwar and, after bifurcation near Aligarh, its confluences with the Ganges river mainstem in Kanpur and the Yamuna river in Etawah. At the time of completion, it had the greatest discharge of any irrigation canal in the world.
