WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart (until 1920 R. S. Wahab). Bengal 20.3.1887 — 1943. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of a Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab (1855–1921) of Indian army and Catherine Mary Ward (d. 1896). Joined army in 1906, 1910 appointed to Survey of India. After military duties in 1914-21 its Assistant Director of Works in Waziristan. From 1929 Superintendent of Surveys in Secunderabad, from 1930 Assistant Surveyor-General in Calcutta. Major (1933). In 1932 accused of accepting bribes from the Nizam and suspended, but after long trial finally released in 1934. Married Mary Sarah Maud O’Grady, one son and one daughter.
Publications: Buddhist Cave Temples of India. 114 p. 51 pl. L. 1936.
Sources: indiankanoon.org/doc/1421462/ and other court documents in Internet; WikiTree (as R.S. Wahab); death year in my heritage.fi.
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