Robert Scott Troup
Robert Scott Troup was a British forestry expert. He spent the first part of his career in Colonial India, returning to England in 1920 to head Oxford's School of Forestry.
Education
Troup was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen. He then entered the Royal Indian Engineering College, based at Cooper's Hill, near Egham, Surrey. This trained engineers and forest conservators for the Indian service.Career
Troup joined the Imperial Forestry Service in 1897 and was posted to Burma as a deputy conservator of forests. In 1905, he was appointed forest economist at the new Imperial Forest Research Institute and College at Dehra Dun, India. In 1915, he was appointed assistant inspector-general of forests. In 1917–1918, he also served as controller of timber supplies with the Indian Munitions Board. He ended his Imperial Forestry Service career as inspector-general of forests of Burma.In 1920, Troup returned to the United Kingdom to take up the chair of forestry at the University of Oxford, succeeding William Schlich, under whom he had studied at Cooper's Hill. Troup was elected a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. From 1924 to 1935, he was founding director of Oxford's Imperial Forestry Institute. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1926.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1920 New Year Honours and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1934.