Royal Indian Engineering College
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The Royal Indian Engineering College was a British college of Civil Engineering founded by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney in 1870. It was intended to train engineers for the Indian Public Works department.
The college interiors were designed by English architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Today, the site at at Cooper's Hill, Surrey, is the Runnymede Campus of Brunel University.
As an aside, the College is mentioned in literature. Rudyard Kipling wrote that one of the main characters in 'Stalky & Co.' - M'Turk - is supposed to be 'going up for Cooper's Hill' following schooling at the United Services College.
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