Sir Alfred Woodley CroftKCIE (7 February 1841 – 29 October 1925)[1] was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in India. From 1877 until his retirement in 1897 he was Director of Public Instruction in Bengal, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in November 1884.
Born in Compton Gifford, he was the son of Charles and Charlotte Croft. He was educated at the Mannamead School. He graduated BA in philosophy from the Exeter College, Oxford in 1863 and an MA in 1871. He went to Calcutta to join the Bengal Education Service in 1866 as a professor of philosophy to Presidency College, then under the University of Calcutta.[2]
Previously Croft was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1887 he was raised to a knighthood as a Knight Commander of the order and was described as a Director of Public Instruction for Bengal.[3]
He served as the vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta from 1893 to 1896.[2] In 1897, the University awarded him with an honorary doctorate degree on the occasion of his retirement.[4]
He was also a member of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1887 to 1892.[2]
Croft returned to England and never married, he died in Tavistock on 29 October 1925.[5]
^Florence Nightingale (2005). Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-88920-466-9.
^ abcClive Whitehead (2003). Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983. I.B.Tauris. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-86064-864-9.
^"Jubilee Honours For India." The Times [London, England] 16 February 1887: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Sept. 2013.
^"Annual Convocation". University of Calcutta. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012.
^"Sir A. W. Croft." The Times [London, England] 31 October 1925: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Sept. 2013.
and 26 Related for: Alfred Woodley Croft information
Sir AlfredWoodleyCroft KCIE (7 February 1841 – 29 October 1925) was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in India. From...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Benjamin Simpson Albert James Leppoc Cappel Donald Mackenzie Wallace AlfredWoodleyCroft Bradford Leslie Jaswantsinghji Fatehsinghji, Thakur Sahib of Limri...
Waterhouse (1888–1890) Henry Beveridge (1890–1891) Sir AlfredWoodleyCroft (1891–1892) Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893–1894) Charles James Lyall (1894–1895)...
Patrick K. Collins Chris Constantinou Michael Cooper (footballer) Sir AlfredWoodleyCroft William Crossing Tom Daley Richard Deacon Stephen Davies Sir Rolf...
Although the principal Charles Henry Tawney and Director of Education AlfredWoodleyCroft were reluctant to appoint him, Bose took up his post in January 1885...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Law and Ancient Law," Current Legal Issues, Vol. 6, pp. 135–147. Lyall, Alfred Comyn [and others] (1888). "Sir Henry Maine". Law Quarterly Review, Vol...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
bureaucratic Victorian historians in India", of whom James Talboys Wheeler and Alfred Comyn Lyall were other examples. A Comparative Dictionary of the Languages...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Banerjee Doctor in Law 1876 Rajendralal Mitra Doctor in Law 1897 AlfredWoodleyCroft Doctor in Law 1898 Mahendralal Sircar Doctor in Law 1906 H.R.H. George...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...
Hunter William Comer Petheram Gooroodass Banerjee Jones Quain Pigot AlfredWoodleyCroft E. J. Trevelyan Francis William Maclean Thomas Raleigh Alexander...