Hello List,
The Times (of London) Feb. 13., 1954: pg.8 Issue 52855: Col. E
Obituaries
Mr. David MILNE
Improving Crops in the Punjab.
Mr. David MILNE, C.I.E. , for many years Economic Botanist to the
Government of the Punjab, and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the
University of the Punjab, has died at the age of 77.
The son of James MILNE, of Drumlithie, Kincardineshire, he was born on May
9, 1876, and educated at Aberdeen University, where he graduated with the
degree of B.Sc.(Agric.).
In 1905 he entered the service of the Corporation of West Egypt as an
agriculural chemist, and two years later he joined the Indian Agricultural
Service as Economic Botanist to the Punjab Government. During his service
he was responsible for the introduction into the province of many new and
improved varieties of cottons, whets, and other crops, and in 1923 he
became Director of Agriculture in the Punjab.
From 1921 to 1923 he was Principal of the Lyallpur Agricultural College,
be subsequently appointed Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the
University of the Punjab, a member of the Punjab Legislative Council, and
member of the Indian Central Cotton Committee. From its inception in 19928
until 1933, when he retired, he was a member of the Imperial Council of
Agricultural Research, India.
He was made a C.I.E. in 1927. During the 1939-45 War he served in the
Ministry of Agriculture at Forfar.
He married in 1912 Joan Annie, daughter of Leiutenant-Colonel Spencer
CARGILL, Royal Bengal Artillery. She died in 1952.
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Pleased to learn of any children etc..
Cheers
Jonathan