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 19 December 1881 |
| Died | 30 January 1962 (aged 80) Surrey, England |
| Education | |
| Spouse |
Dorothy Lisa Branson
(m. 1915) |
| Children | 2 |
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
edit- ^ "Strickland–Branson". The Australasian. Melbourne. 11 September 1915. p. 45.
- ^ a b c d "Mr C. F. Strickland". The Times. No. 55303. 31 January 1962. p. 15.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The New Year Honours". The Times. No. 45709. 1 January 1931. p. 6.