Education
Troup was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the. He then entered Cooper"s Hill College, which trained engineers and forest conservators for Indian service. There he trained under William Schlich.
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Career
He spent the first part of his career in Colonial India, returning to England in 1920 to head Oxford"s School of Forestry. Troup joined the Imperial Forestry Service in 1897 and was posted to Burma as a Deputy Conservator of Forests. In 1905, he was appointed Forest Economist at the new Imperial Forest Research Institute and College at Dehra Dun, India.
In 1915 he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Forests.
In 1917–1918 he also served as Controller of Timber Supplies with the Indian Munitions Board. He ended his Imperial Forestry Service career as Inspector-General of Forests of Burma.
In 1920, Troup returned to the United Kingdom to take up the Chair of Forestry at the University of Oxford, from retiring William Schlich, under whom he had studied at Cooper"s Hill. Troup was elected a Fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford.
From 1924 to 1935 he was founding Director of Oxford"s Imperial Forestry Institute.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 1926.
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Fellow of the Royal Society; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.