C. F. Strickland
British colonial administrator (1881–1962)
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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]
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.