High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Proby Thomas Cautley KCB (1802 – 25 January 1871), English engineer and palaeontologist, born in Suffolk, is best known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal) in India. The 350 mile canal stretches some 350 miles between its headworks at Hardwar and its confluence with the Ganges river mainstem in Kanpur. Proby Cautley came to India during Company rule in India at age 17 and joined the Bengal Presidency artillery in 1819. In 1825, he assisted Captain Robert Smith, the engineer in charge of constructing the Eastern Yamuna canal, also called the Doab canal. He was made in charge of this canal for 12 years between 1831 and 1843. By 1836, he was Superintendent-General of Canals. In 1840 Cautley reported on the proposed Ganges canal, for the irrigation of the country between the rivers Ganges, Hindan and Yamuna- then called the Jumna, which was his most important work.

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