Hugh Catchpole CBE HI was a British educationist and philanthropist, mostly active in British India, and later India and Pakistan.
11 Facts About Hugh Catchpole
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Hugh Catchpole was a teacher and administrator in military colleges and schools such as Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Pakistan Air Force School in Sargodha and Abbottabad Public School.
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Hugh Catchpole was the founder principal of Cadet College at Hasan Abdal.
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Hugh Catchpole was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England on 26 May 1907.
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One of five siblings, his father Henry Catchpole was the head of a building firm in Suffolk.
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Hugh Catchpole studied in Ipswich School during his early years and played cricket for Suffolk County XI.
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Hugh Catchpole studied Indian history during his stay in Oxford, which formed his interest to come to British India for a teaching assignment at Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India as a teacher in 1928.
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Hugh Catchpole joined the Royal Army in 1941 and was in the army until September 1946.
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Hugh Catchpole later served a second stint in army from December 1946 to October 1948.
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Hugh Catchpole's students include highly ranked officers in the Indian defence forces, the Pakistani defence forces and the Bangladeshi defence forces.
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The All India Hugh Catchpole Memorial English Debate is an interschool debate competition in India started by Rashtriya Indian Military College in 2006 and is named after Hugh Catchpole.