INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Cromer.
in London on Egyptian Finance, 1884; Agent and Consul-Gen., Egypt, 1883-1907; granted £50,000 by Parliament holds 1st class Medjudie reigned freedom of the city of London, 1907; is Pres of Research Defence society and Chairman, of African Entomological Research Committee C.S.I. 1876; C.I.E. 1880; K.C.S.I. 1883; K.C.B. (civil) 1887; G.C.M.G. 1888; G.C.B. (civil) 1895; P.C. 1900; Baron 1892; Viscount, 1899; Viscount Evington and Earl of cromer, 1901; O.M. 1906. Publications: Staff College Essays; Paraphrase and translations from the Greek; The war Game; and other military works; Modern Egypt, 2 vols., 1908; Ancient and Modern Imperialism, 1910. Heir: s. Viscount Errington, Address: 36, Wimpole Street. Clubs; Turf, Travellers’, Brooke’s , Marlborough.
Crooke, William; I.C.S., (Retd); b. 1848; educ; at the Grammar School Tipperary and at Trinity College, Dublin; arrived in India, 1871; served in the N.W.P. and Oudh; Magistrate and Collector; (retired) 1896. Publictions: Rural and Agricultural Glossary, N.W.P. and Oudh, 1888; an Ethnographical Handbook for the N.W.P. and Oudh, 1890; The N.W.P of India, their History, etc., 1897; The popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, 1896; and a Gazetteer of Jalesar: The Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P. and Oudh, 1896; also of a Revised edition of yule Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson; and numerous papers in the Journals of the Anthropological Institute and Folklore Society. Address: c/o India Office, London.
Cross, Richard Assheton, First Viscount: (1816); b. 1823; s. of William Cross; educ; at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge: called to the bar, Inner Temple, 1849; a Bencher M.P. 1876; M.P. for Preston, 1857-62, and S. Lancashire, 1868-86; Home Secretary, 1874-80 and 1885-6; Secretary of State for India, 1886 to 1892; Lord Privy Seal, 1895-1900: made a Viscount, 1886; P.C., G.C.S.I. 1892; D.C.L., LL.D. Cambridge, 1878; G.C.B. 1880; F.R.S., author of legal works. Address: c/o India Office, London.
Crosthwaite, Sir Charles Haukes Todd; K.C.S.I. (1888), C.S.I. (1887), I.C.S., (Retd); formerly Lieut-Governor of N.W.P., s. of the late Revd. John Clarke Crosthwaite, vicar of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and later Rector of St. Mary-at-Hill, London; educ: at Merchant Taylor’s and St. Johns College, Oxford; entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1857: Secretary to Board of Revenue. N.W.P. 1875-7; Commr. of Jubbalpore C.P. 1877-81; Member of Council of Governer-General, 1881-1883; Chief Commissioner, British Burma, 1883-4; Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, 1885-6; Member, Public Services Commission, 1886-7; Chief Commissioner, Burma, 1887-84; Member of the Governor-General’s Council, 1890-1, and in 1892; Lieutenant-Governor of N.W.P. and Oudh, 1892-5: Member of the Council of India, 1895-1905. Publication: Notes on the N.W. Provinces of India 1870. Address: Long Acre, Shemley Green, Surrey. Club: Savile.
Crosthwaite, Sir Robert Joseph, C.A., C.S.I. (1890),K.C.S.I. (1897); b. 1841; 3rd s. of late Rev. John Clarke Crosthwaite, Rector of St.-
