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SIR PROBY THOMAS CAUTLEY (1802-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR PROBY See also:THOMAS See also:CAUTLEY (1802-1871)  , See also:English engineer and palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Suffolk in 1802 . After some years' service in the See also:Bengal See also:artillery, which he joined in 1819, he was engaged on the reconstruction of the See also:Doab See also:canal, of which, after it was opened, he had See also:charge for twelve years (1831-1843) . In 184o he reported on the proposed See also:Ganges canal, for the See also:irrigation of the See also:country between the See also:rivers Ganges, Hindan and See also:Jumna, which was his most important See also:work . This project was sanctioned in 1841, but the work was not begun till 1843, and even then See also:Cautley found himself hampered in its See also:execution by the opposition of See also:Lord See also:Ellenborough . From 1845 to 1848 he was absent in See also:England owing to See also:ill-See also:health, and on his return to See also:India he was appointed director of canals in the See also:North-Western Provinces . After the Ganges canal was opened in 1854 he went back to England, where he was made K.CB., and from 1858 to 1868 he occupied a seat on the See also:council of India . He died at See also:Sydenham, near See also:London, on the 25th of See also:January 1871 . In 186o he published a full See also:account of the making of the Ganges canal, and he also contributed numerous See also:memoirs, some written in collaboration with Dr See also:Hugh See also:Falconer, to the Proceedings of the Bengal See also:Asiatic Society and the See also:Geological Society of London on the See also:geology and fossil remains of the Sivalik Hills .

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