Surveyor-general of India Robert Hyde Colebrooke died on this day. He had conducted some of the earliest surveys of India.
His father was the British ambassador to the Swiss Confederacy. In 1778, Colebrooke joined the Bengal Infantry.
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He surveyed the distance from Hooghly to Madras. He conducted surveys of Mysore and with Archibald Blair, of the Andaman Islands. Colebrooke Island is named after him.
He succeeded Alexander Kyd as surveyor-general. Colebrooke studied the changing course of the Ganges and made a suggestion to link the Ganges with the river Churni.
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