Sir Charles Crosthwaite | |
Honorific-Suffix: | KCSI |
Office: | Chief Commissioner of Burma |
Term Start: | 12 March 1887 |
Term End: | 10 December 1890 |
Predecessor: | Charles Edward Bernard |
Successor: | Alexander Mackenzie |
Office2: | Chief Commissioner of Burma |
Term Start2: | 2 March 1883 |
Term End2: | 25 September 1886 |
Predecessor2: | Charles Edward Bernard |
Successor2: | Charles Edward Bernard |
Birth Date: | 25 December 1835 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Shamley Green, Surrey, England |
Nationality: | British |
Spouse: | Dame Caroline Alison Lushington |
Relations: | Son of Rev. John Clarke Crostwaite |
Children: | Gertrude Elizabeth Crosthwaite; Elaine Nelson Crosthwaite; Captain John Graham Crosthwaite; Henry Robert Crosthaite; Frederick Douglas Crosthwaite; Evelyn Alison Cheape Crosthwaite |
Alma Mater: | Merchant Taylors' School St John's College, Oxford |
Occupation: | Administrator |
Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite (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.
He was born in Dublin, educated at Merchant Taylors' School.[2] and St John's College, Oxford.[3]
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 from 1892 to 1895.[5] He was a member of the Council of India from 1895 to 1905.[6]