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WITH the death of Sir William Willcocks, on July 28, there passed out of the engineering world and Egyptian everyday life one of the original band of engineers who helped to rescue that country from the financial bankruptcy into which it had been led by Ismail Pasha. Born in India in 1852, Willcocks passed brilliantly through the Thomason Engineering College, Roorkee, and gained his first irrigation experience in that country during eleven years' service with the Irrigation Department of the United Provinces.
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B., A. Sir William Willcocks, K.C.M.G. Nature 130, 302–303 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130302a0
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