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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Pritchard    
First Name(s)  Charles Bradley    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1837    
Death Year  1903    
Entry  Son of the Rev. Dr. C. Pritchard, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford : born in 1837 : educated at Rugby, Sherbourne, and Haileybury : joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1857. After holding various minor appointments, he was President of the Salt Commission in Madras in 1876, and in 1877-8 proposed a scheme for the working of the Abkari system in Bombay. He became Commissioner of Customs, 1881: Commissioner of Salt Revenue, 1882 : Commissioner in Sind, 1887 : Member of Council, Bombay, 1889 : Member of the Supreme Council (in charge of Public Works), from Nov. 1892, to March, 1896 : he was strongly opposed to the Cotton Duties : C.S.I, in 1886, and K.C.I.E. in 1891. He supported the Turf for many years in Western India. He died in London, Nov. 23, 1903     
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