3-034-802 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Egham, Surrey, 1871. Building '...adapted and occupied for a College of Civil Engineering for the service of the Government of India...By judicious alterations and additions to the existing mansion, and by the erection of an entirely new block, the buildings have been converted into a handsome college, with present accommodation for one hundred students...the course of study comprising the theory of construction, mathematics, mechanics, the elementary principles of architecture, drawing, surveying (for thorough practice in which the locality is adapted), physical science, Hindustani, and accounts...All students qualifying successfully at the end of the course will be appointed to the engineer service of the Indian Government on salaries commencing at £420 per annum...The works have been carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of Sir Digby Wyatt, architect to the Indian Government, the contractors being Messrs. Ashby and Horner. The president of the new college is Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.