Proby Thomas Cautley (1802–71)

Civil engineer, and palaeontologist. Second lieutenant in the East India Company’s artillery, 1819; transferred to assist in the reconstruction of the Doab canal, 1825. Superintendent of the canal, 1831–43. Planned and constructed the Ganges Canal, 1836–54. Member of the council of India, 1858–68. With Hugh Falconer, carried out extensive geological and palaeontological research in the Siwalik hills of northern India, for which they were jointly awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1837. Knighted, 1854. FRS 1846.