Cotton, Arthur, Sir, 1803-1899
Variant names1819 commissioned in the Madras engineers; 1819-1821 served with the Ordnance Survey at Bangor and the engineer depot at Chatham; 1822 surveyor of the Pamban Channel; 1824 served in the First Anglo-Burmese War; 1828-? 1837 in charge of Cauvery and Coleroon Dams project; 1845-? 1852 in charge of Godavari Dams project; 1861 knighthood; 1866 KCSI; 1877 retired from the army with the rank of general.
Epithet: army officer and irrigation engineer
Title: Knight
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x00025e
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| Ganges Canal, India | |||
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| Banbury, Oxfordshire | |||
| Reading, Berkshire | |||
| Sarawak, South East Asia | |||
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| Mauritius, Indian Ocean | |||
| Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire | |||
| Roumania, Europe | |||
| Sunderland, Durham | |||
| London, England | |||
| Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | |||
| Chester, Cheshire | |||
| High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | |||
| Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire | |||
| Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire | |||
| Armenia, Turkey-in-Asia | |||
| Preston, Lancashire | |||
| Russia, Asia | |||
| Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Birmingham, Warwickshire | |||
| York, Yorkshire | |||
| Serbia, Europe | |||
| Italy, Europe | |||
| Lambeth, Surrey | |||
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Birth 1803-05-15
Death 1899-07-25
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