John Samuel Slater

John Samuel Slater (born 1850 in Calcutta; died 1911 in Ealing) was a British professor of Civil Engineering at the Presidency College, Calcutta, and later principal of the Engineering College in Sibpur.

He graduated in 1870 at the Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee, obtaining the gold medal for mathematics.

The same year he was appointed to the Public Works Department of the Government of India and served at Dera Ghazi Khan and other locations in the Punjab.

In 1897, he was for some months Inspector of Schools of the Rajshahi Division, and in 1901 officiated as head of the Educational Department of Bengal.

[2] He was responsible for teaching astronomy to the students of the Engineering College, and was always keenly interested in that science.