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Cecil Ralph Townshend Congreve | |
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Born | 17 September 1876 Stafford, Staffordshire, England |
Died | 3 June 1952 Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire, Wales |
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Relatives | Walter Congreve (Brother) |
Cecil Ralph Townshend Congreve, CBE[1][2], (17 September 1876 – 3 June, 1952) or C.R.T.Congreve was an Englishman who was one of the earliest tea planters from South India. The son of Fanny Emma Townshend and William Congreve was born in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. He was educated at Charterhouse school, Godalming in 1891[3].
C.R.T.Congreve married Esme Maud Rowsell on February 28, 1911[4]. They had three sons and lived in Blair Atholl, Coonoor. They divorced later and he remarried Margaret 'Ann' Louis Wilson Somerville on May 20, 1933. They had a daughter named Julia in 1934.
He went out to India in 1896 and was trained briefly under E G Windle[5], a prominent planter from The Nilgiris[1][6]. Later he joined G. A. Carver Marsh who was one of the early explorers of Anaimalai Hills in Southern Western Ghats and instrumental in opening up this region for tea and coffee plantation. C R T. Congreve went to Anamallais in March 1897 to help Carver Marsh in establishing plantation[6].
C.R.T.Congreve was an honorary secretary of Anamalai Planters Association from 1907-1909[7]. He was a member of the Madras Legislative Council during 1922-25 and 1926-29[8][9]. He was Chairman during 1920-21 and 1930-32 of the The United Planters' Association of Southern India (UPASI). Later became a president of UPASI in 1937-38[10].
He was a member of the Ooty hunt club[11] and the Joint Master of the Ooty Hunt 1936 – 1938. He was appointed CBE in 1941[2]. He retired as a planter from Valparai in 1945. He is the author of the book The Anamallais published in 1941 which is about his experience in planting days in Anamalai hills, southern Western Ghats.
He died on June 3, 1952, in the castle Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, when he was 75 years old[1].
References
- ^ a b c Langley, W. K. M (1952). C. R.T. Congreve, C.B.E. - An Appreciation. The Planters' Chronicle, July 15, VolXLVII, No. 14.
- ^ a b "Page 3294 | Supplement 35184, 6 June 1941 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ Charterhouse (1904). Charterhouse register, 1872-1900. Robarts - University of Toronto. Godalming, Stedman.
- ^ "The Congreve Family". Rowsell Family History. 2015-07-27. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ "Windle, E. G. (M)". dvpp.uvic.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ a b C.R.T. Congreve (1941). The Anamallais.
- ^ Unknown (1908). The Planters Chronicle Vol-iii (1908).
- ^ Unknown (1938) The Fort St. George Gazette. 4 January 1938. No. 1. Madras.
- ^ The Madras Legislative Council (1927). The Madras Legislative Council (1927).
- ^ Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) (1935). All about tea. Internet Archive. New York, The Tea and coffee trade journal Company.
- ^ "Hunting on Horseback with Hounds". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-05-21.