Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite (5 December 1835, Dublin – 28 May 1915Death Of Sir Charles Crosthwaite. The Times (London, England), Monday, May 31, 1915; pg. 8; Issue 40868) 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.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. and St John's College, Oxford."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
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.‘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 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 from 1892 to 1895.Katherine Prior, ‘Crosthwaite, Sir Charles Haukes Todd (1835–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Feb 2017 He was a member of the Council of India from 1895 to 1905.Buckland, Charles Edward, "Dictionary of Indian Biography", p.100, https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft
Titles 1835–1887: Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite 1887–1888: Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite, CSI 1888–1915: Sir Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite, KCSI
Publications The Pacification of Burma
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