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Charles Crosthwaite

Charles Crosthwaite

British colonial administrator

Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite KCSI (5 December 1835, Dublin – 28 May 1915[1]) served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from March 1887 to December 1890.

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Early life

He was born in Dublin, educated at Merchant Taylors' School.[2] and St John's College, Oxford.[3]

Career

Crosthwaite entered into the Bengal Civil Service 1857 and served chiefly in the N.W.P. He was Chief Commissioner of British Burma from 1883 to 1884; then Chief Commissioner of Central Provinces from 1885 to 1886.[4] From 1887 to 1890 Sir Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite was Chief Commissioner of Burma. He was then a Member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council from 1890 to 1895; and Lieutenant Governor of N.W.P and Oudh.[5] He was a member of the Council of India from 1895 to 1905.[6]

Titles

  • 1835–1887: Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite
  • 1887–1888: Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite, CSI
  • 1888–1915: Sir Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite, KCSI[7]

Publications

  • The Pacification of Burma

Works

  • "India: Past, Present, and Future" . The Empire and the century. London: John Murray. 1905. pp. 621–650.

References

  1. [1]
    Death Of Sir Charles Crosthwaite. The Times (London, England), Monday, May 31, 1915; pg. 8; Issue 40868
  2. [2]
    Minchin, J. C. G., Our public schools, their influence on English history; Charter house, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors', Rugby, St. Paul's Westminster, Winchester (London, 1901), p. 195.
  3. [3]
    "Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University" Foster,J (Ed) Vol I p322 Oxford, Parker & Co,1888
  4. [4]
    ‘CROSTHWAITE, Sir Charles Haukes Todd’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Feb 2017
  5. [5]
    Katherine Prior, ‘Crosthwaite, Sir Charles Haukes Todd (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Feb 2017
  6. [6]
    Buckland, Charles Edward, "Dictionary of Indian Biography", p.100, https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft
  7. [7]
    "Crosthwaite, Charles Haukes Todd, Sir, 1835-1915 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
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Preceded by Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of Burma
1883–1886		 Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of Burma
1887–1890		 Succeeded by


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