C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

Born in Dublin in 1835, Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford. He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1857 and spent much of his career in northern India and Burma.

Crosthwaite held several senior posts in British India, including Chief Commissioner of British Burma and later Chief Commissioner of Burma after the British annexation of Upper Burma. He also served on the Governor-General's Supreme Council, was Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and later sat on the Council of India.

For readers today, he is chiefly remembered as the author of The Pacification of Burma, published late in his life. The book draws on his firsthand involvement in imperial administration and offers a direct window into how a leading official of the period understood events in Burma. He died in Surrey in 1915.