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160: 179: 244:, designed to retain water to irrigate the Delta, which had been built at great expense between 1843 and 1862 but soon abandoned when cracks appeared in its structure. Scott Moncrieff arranged for a trial closing of the gates allowing a limited operation, while carefully monitoring the cracks. The results were so successful in terms of improved agricultural yield that he was able to ask for, and get, a million pounds for a complete repair and strengthening of the Barrage, which was carried out between 1885 and 90. Over a period of nine years he reorganised the whole irrigation system and "was so successful in improving the whole irrigation system that Egypt, from being a bankrupt country, became comparatively flourishing". For his work in Egypt he was appointed KCMG. 168: 37: 97: 77: 263:, the Viceroy, Scott-Moncrieff served as President of a Commission to investigate and report on the prospects for further developing the Indian irrigation system. For this work he was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the 178: 163:
The lid of coffin base and mummy of senior priest Iufenamun; the lid in fact belonged to another coffin (of Tjentweretheqau, his grandmother), presented by Colin Scott-Moncrieff to the Royal Scottish Museum
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who offered him "the keys of the Nile" – the position of Director of Irrigation for Egypt, then still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, but in practice controlled by the British.
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Detail. Coffin base and mummy of priest Iufenamun. From Egypt. Presented by Colin Scott-Moncrieff. National Museum of Scotland
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Findlay, J (2014): Chasing Lost Time The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator. London: Vintage
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Retiring with the honorary rank of Colonel, on his way home he was summoned to Cairo to meet
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in 1858, and was involved in clearing-up operations after the
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Scott-Moncrieff returned to Britain in 1892 and served as
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Report of the Indian Irrigation Commission, 1901–1903
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
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Index


British Empire
British Army
Colonel
Corps of Royal Engineers
KCSI
KCMG
Nile Barrage
Egypt


Greyfriars Kirkyard

Robert Scott Moncrieff
East India Company
Addiscombe
Bengal Engineers
India
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Ganges Canal
Burma
Order of the Star of India
Lord Dufferin
Nile Barrage
Under-Secretary for Scotland
Lord Curzon
1903 Durbar Honours
C.K. Scott-Moncrieff
Proust
The Life of Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff

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