http://archbhoo-india.blogspot.in/2012/04/mullaiperiyar-dam-tamil-nadu-cm-j.html A memorial for Colonel John Penny Quick ( British), Architect/Builder of Mullaiperiyar Dam in Lower Camp, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India. Foundation Stone laid by the Chief Minister J Jayalalithaaa of Tamil Nadu,Chennai(Madras)-capital, India. Colonel John Pennycuick CSI (15 January 1841, Pune - 9 March 1911, Camberley) was a British Army engineer and civil servant who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council when India was under Colonial rule of British East India Company. He undertook several irrigation works which included the masonry dam of Mullaperiyar on the Periyar River.