Sir Alfred Chatterton (10 October 1866 – 26 July 1958) was a British civil servant and civil engineer who worked in India and served as the first director of industries for the Madras Presidency (1900-1908) and as director of industries and commerce in Mysore (1908-1912).
Chatterton was educated at
Finsbury Technical College and then at the Central Institution, South Kensington. He went to India after qualifying the
Indian Education Service
The Indian Education Service or Indian Educational Service (IES) formed part of the British Raj between 1896 and 1924, when overseas recruitment ceased. It was an administrative organisation running educational establishments in British India, larg ...
and worked in Madras from 1888 to 1900. He joined the Indian Educational Service and was Professor of Engineering, Madras, from 1888 to 1900. He then advised the government on industrial development and then moved to the Mysore State where he was involved in the founding of the Sandalwood oil distillation industry in Bangalore. He advised the Mysore Durbar in 1918 and was involved in helping setup the Tata Industrial Bank. He was awarded a Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1901, made CIE in 1912 and knighted in 1919.
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Rural Economics in India(1927)
Industrial Evolution in India(1920)
The value of wind-mills in India(1903)
Proposals for utilizing water power in southern India(1892)
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1866 births
1958 deaths
British civil servants