C. F. Strickland

Claude Francis Strickland CIE (19 December 1881 – 30 January 1962) was a British colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service.[2][3] Strickland was a leading theorist and advocate for the use of co-operatives across the British Empire.[4][5]

C. F. Strickland
Born
Claude Francis Strickland

(1881-12-19)19 December 1881
Died30 January 1962(1962-01-30) (aged 80)
Surrey, England
Education
Spouse
Dorothy Lisa Branson
(m. 1915)
[1]
Children2

Strickland was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[2] He served as registrar of co-operatives in Punjab from 1915 to 1920, and again from 1922 to 1927.[2][3] In 1931 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.[6] From 1937 to 1941 he lectured at the University of Oxford.[2] He authored a series of books on co-operatives.

References

  1. "Strickland–Branson". The Australasian. Melbourne. 11 September 1915. p. 45.
  2. "Mr C. F. Strickland". The Times. No. 55303. 31 January 1962. p. 15.
  3. Kamenov, Nikolay (July 2019). "Imperial cooperative experiments and global market capitalism, c.1900–c.1960". Journal of Global History. 14 (2): 219–237. doi:10.1017/S1740022819000044. ISSN 1740-0228. S2CID 199282505.
  4. Windel, Aaron (2022). Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire. Berkeley series in British studies. Oakland: University of California Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-520-38187-2.
  5. Windel, Aaron (2014). "Mass Education, Cooperation, and the "African Mind"". In Bloom, Peter J.; Miescher, Stephan F.; Manuh, Takyiwaa (eds.). Modernization as Spectacle in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-253-01229-6 via Archive.org.
  6. "The New Year Honours". The Times. No. 45709. 1 January 1931. p. 6.
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