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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Sir Albert James Leppoc Cappel''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]] MICE (1836&ndash;1924) was a senior administrator in India who oversaw the installation and running of the Indian [[telegraph]] system.<br />
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==Life==<br />
[[File:The Leppoc Cappel stone, Brompton Cemetery.png|thumb|The Leppoc Cappel stone, Brompton Cemetery]]<br />
He was born on 17 August 1836 in [[India]] the son of James Leppoc Cappel.<ref>Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915</ref><br />
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He served in the [[Crimean War]] 1855/6 attached to the Turkish contingent. After this he returned to India and joined the newly formed Indian Telegraph Service in 1857. In 1866 he was involved in the first permanent TransAtlantic telegraph cable.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20762437|jstor = 20762437|last1 = Müller|first1 = Simone|title = The Transatlantic Telegraphs and the "Class of 1866" — the Formative Years of Transnational Networks in Telegraphic Space, 1858-1884/89|journal = Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung|year = 2010|volume = 1|issue = 131|pages = 237–259}}</ref> Rising rapidly in this field he became Director of Telegraph Traffic in 1869 and Deputy Director General of the whole telegraph service in 1879. In 1883 he was appointed Director of Telegraphs for all [[India]]. During his period there was a huge increase in service across the continent.<ref>Grace's Guide: A J Leppoc Cappel</ref><br />
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On 15 February 1887 he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] by [[Queen Victoria]].<ref>London Gazette 5 February 1887</ref><br />
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He retired from the Indian Telegraph Service in 1888/9 but retained an active involvement (and shares) in various telegraph companies in particular the Eastern Telegraph Company and was also a Director of the Globe Telegraph and Trust Company and Trustee of the Submarine Cable Trust.<ref>Grace's Guide: A J Leppoc Cappel</ref><ref>Who's Who in Engineering 1922</ref><br />
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He lived his final years at 27 [[Kensington]] Court Gardens in [[London]]. He was a member of the [[St Stephen's Club]].<ref>Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915</ref><br />
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He served on the council of the [[Institute of Civil Engineers]] 1900 to 1902.<ref>Journal of the Institute of Civl Engineers: obituary May 1924</ref><br />
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He died on 20 April 1924. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered<ref>Inscription on Leppoc Cappel grave, Brompton Cemetery</ref> but is memorialised on a tomb at [[Brompton Cemetery]].<br />
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==Family==<br />
He was married to Fanny Gibbon (1849-1907).<br />
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They were parents to Stephen Filgate Leppoc Cappel of the [[Indian Forest Service]].<br />
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