Charles Crosthwaite

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Sir Charles Crosthwaite
Chief Commissioner of Burma
In office
2 March 1883 – 25 September 1886
Preceded byCharles Edward Bernard
Succeeded byCharles Edward Bernard
Personal details
Born(1835-12-25)25 December 1835
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.

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.

Oudh.[5] He was a member of the Council of India from 1895 to 1905.[6]

Titles

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. ^ Death Of Sir Charles Crosthwaite. The Times (London, England), Monday, May 31, 1915; pg. 8; Issue 40868
  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. ^ "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. ^ ‘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. ^ Katherine Prior, ‘Crosthwaite, Sir Charles Haukes Todd (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Feb 2017
  6. ^ Buckland, Charles Edward, "Dictionary of Indian Biography", p.100, https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft
  7. ^ "Crosthwaite, Charles Haukes Todd, Sir, 1835-1915 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.

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Preceded by
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Charles Edward Bernard
Burma

1883–1886 		Succeeded by
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Charles Edward Bernard
Preceded by
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Charles Edward Bernard
Burma

1887–1890 		Succeeded by
Alexander Mackenzie


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