:: Chennai Factoids ::
:: Name reasons behind famous roads in Chennai ::
:: BURKIT ROAD - T.NAGAR ::
Am sure all the Chennai'tes know about this road. And no wonder, as a chennai'te, we would have known all the roads in T.Nagar because of the traffic diversions. Here i go with the name reason behind this Burkit Road. It is named after Mr.Harold Hamilton Burkitt.
:: Harold Hamilton Burkitt ::
Harold Hamilton Burkitt was a British civil servant of the Indian civil service .
Burkitt Road in the neighbourhooad of T. Nagar in Chennai is named after him.
Burkitt was born in the United Kingdom and educated at Galway Grammar School and Dublin University .
He passed the Indian civil service examinations held in 1899 and arrived in India on 3 December 1900.
In India, Burkitt served as Assistant Collector and magistrate in the Madras Presidency for sometime before being appointed British Resident to the Cochin kingdom .
Burkitt served as British Resident to Cochin from 2 December 1920 to 25 June 1923 and was succeeded by C. W. E. Cotton .
He was Commissioner of Madras City in 1919-20 and President and Mayor of the corporation in 1917-18
Source : Wikipedia
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