Robert Elliott-Cooper

Sir Robert Elliott-Cooper KCB VD
Born	(1845-01-29)29 January 1845 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died	16 February 1942(1942-02-16) (aged 97) Knaphill, Surrey, England
Occupation	Engineer
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil
Institutions	Institution of Civil Engineers (president)

Sir Robert Elliott-Cooper KCB VD (29 January 1845 – 16 February 1942) was a British civil engineer.^[1][2] He spent much of his career as a railway engineer with projects in his native Yorkshire, India and West Africa. Elliott-Cooper was members of the committees that developed British Standards for steel bridges and Portland Cement and also sat on many government committees. He had a long involvement with the British Army's Volunteer Force, serving as an officer in the 1st Yorkshire (West Riding) Artillery Volunteer Corps and later as a technical specialist and colonel he commanded the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps. During the First World War he served on the War Office Committee of Hutted Camps for which he was rewarded with appointment as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.