Garstin, William, Sir, 1849-1925

LC control no.	nr 92007981
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Garstin, William, Sir, 1849-1925 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Garstin, W. E. (William Edmund), 1849-1925 Jārstin, Wilyam, al-Sir, 1849-1925 جارستين، وليم، سير، 1849-1925
Associated country	Great Britain England India Egypt
Birth date	1849-01-29
Death date	1925-01-08
Place of birth	India
Place of death	London (England)
Field of activity	Hydrology River engineering Irrigation engineering Public works Civil engineering Cairo (Egypt)--Antiquities
Affiliation	Compagnie financière de Suez
Profession or occupation	Civil engineers Hydrologists
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	His al-Dalīl fī mawārid aʻālī al-Nīl, 1905?: t.p. (janāb al-Sir Wilyam Jārstin) NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Garstin, Sir William Edmund, 1849-1925; usage: Sir William Garstin; W.E. Garstin) Oxford dictionary of national biography (online), viewed March 13, 2019 (Garstin, Sir William Edmund; born in India on 29 January 1849, second son of Charles Garstin, of the Bengal civil service, and his wife , Agnes Helen, daughter of W. Mackenzie, of the East India Company; educated at Cheltenham College (1864-66) and at King's College, London, where he studied engineering; in 1872 he entered the Indian public works department; in 1885 he was invited by Colin Campbell Scott-Moncrieff, under-secretary of state in the ministry of public works at Cairo after the British invasion of Egypt in 1882, to join others in transforming the hydrology of the Nile to improve agriculture, control flooding, and improve navigation; he was placed in charge of irrigation in the eastern part of the Nile delta; became inspector-general in Egypt in May 1892, at which point he definitely retired from Indian service; became under-secretary of state in the ministry of public works; involved in project to construct a dam at Aswan, completed in 1902, and other barrages; surveyed hydrology of the upper Nile area; published Report upon the Basin of the Upper Nile with Proposals for the Improvement of that River (1904), which proposals were later undertaken; his public works position gave him responsibility for the buildings and antiquities of Cairo; his efforts led to new buildings for the National Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Cairo, opening in 1902; in 1905 the public works service was reorganized and he became adviser to the department; retired in 1908, but often went back to Egypt to advise on hydrological questions, and to act as a director of the Suez Canal Company; given several honors; died at his London home on 8 January 1925)
Associated language	eng