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	The bird ''[[Bambusicola fytchii]]'' is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Beolens \|first1=Bo \|last2=Watkins \|first2=Michael \|last3=Grayson \|first3=Michael \|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds \|date=2020 \|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing \|isbn=978-1-4729-8269-8 \|page=204 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_3QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 \|language=en}}</ref>		The bird ''[[Bambusicola fytchii]]'' is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Beolens \|first1=Bo \|last2=Watkins \|first2=Michael \|last3=Grayson \|first3=Michael \|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds \|date=2020 \|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing \|isbn=978-1-4729-8269-8 \|page=204 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_3QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 \|language=en}}</ref>

	He was the son of John Fytche of Thorpe Hall, ~~[[Hoxne]]~~, ~~Suffolk~~, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendant of [[Ralph Fitch]] and [[William Fytche]]. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George Clayton Tennyson,<ref>{{cite book \|title=Fitch of Louth \|date=1906 \|publisher=The Harleian Society \|page=1226 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIE_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1226 \|language=en}}</ref> making him a first cousin of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], to whom he dedicated his book, ''Burma, Past and Present''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Vibart \|first1=Henry Meredith \|title=Addiscombe: Its Heroes and Men of Note \|date=1894 \|publisher=Archibald Constable and Company \|page=478 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8TbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA478 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Ryley \|first1=John Horton \|last2=Fitch \|first2=Ralph \|title=Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma: His Companions and Contemporaries, with His Remarkable Narrative Told in His Own Words \|year=1899 \|publisher=T. F. Unwin \|page=200 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YZCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA200 \|language=en}}</ref>		He was the son of John Fytche of Thorpe Hall, Louth, Lincolnshire, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendant of [[Ralph Fitch]] and [[William Fytche]]. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George Clayton Tennyson,<ref>{{cite book \|title=Fitch of Louth \|date=1906 \|publisher=The Harleian Society \|page=1226 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIE_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1226 \|language=en}}</ref> making him a first cousin of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], to whom he dedicated his book, ''Burma, Past and Present''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Vibart \|first1=Henry Meredith \|title=Addiscombe: Its Heroes and Men of Note \|date=1894 \|publisher=Archibald Constable and Company \|page=478 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8TbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA478 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Ryley \|first1=John Horton \|last2=Fitch \|first2=Ralph \|title=Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma: His Companions and Contemporaries, with His Remarkable Narrative Told in His Own Words \|year=1899 \|publisher=T. F. Unwin \|page=200 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YZCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA200 \|language=en}}</ref>

	==Works==		==Works==
	* {{citation \|last=Fytche \|first=Albert \|title=Burma, Past and Present \|year=1878 \|publisher=C. K. Paul & Co. }} [~~https~~:~~//archive.org/details/~~b29352393_0001 Volume I] [~~https~~:~~//archive.org/details/~~burmapastpresen02fytc/page/n10 Volume II]		* {{Citation \|title=Official Narrative of and Papers connected with the Expedition to explore the Trade Routes to China via Bhamo under the guidance of Major E. B. Sladen, Political Agent, Mandalay \|date=1869 \|url=https://pahar.in/pahar/Books%20and%20Articles/Tibet%20and%20China/1869%20Expedition%20to%20explore%20Trade%20Routes%20to%20China%20via%20Bhamo%20by%20Sladen%20s.pdf \|place=Rangon \|publisher=British Burma Press}}
			* {{citation \|last=Fytche \|first=Albert \|title=Burma, Past and Present \|year=1878 \|publisher=C. K. Paul & Co.}} [[iarchive:b29352393_0001\|Volume I]] [[iarchive:burmapastpresen02fytc/page/n10\|Volume II]]

	==References==		==References==
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	==External links==		==External links==
	* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Myanmar World Statesmen]		* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Myanmar World Statesmen] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401111651/http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Myanmar \|date=1 April 2019 }}

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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[Lieutenant-General]]
|name = Albert Fytche
|honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]]
|image = Albert Fytche.PNG
|office = 2nd [[List of colonial heads of Burma|Chief Commissioner of Burma]]
|term_start = 16 February 1867
|term_end = 18 April 1871
|monarch =
|predecessor = [[Arthur Purves Phayre]]
|successor = [[Ashley Eden]]
|birth_date = 21 September 1820<ref>{{cite book |last1= List|first1= Army|title=Official Quarterly Half-Yearly Army List |date=1881 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ff8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128 |language=en}}</ref>
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|death_date = 16 June 1892 (aged 71)
|death_place = [[Bournemouth]], Dorset, England
|nationality = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]]
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|occupation = [[Administrator of the Government|Administrator]]
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[[File:Fytche Square, Rangoon.jpg|thumb|Fytche Square, Rangoon, (now [[Maha Bandula Park|Mahabandula Garden]]), looking towards the Sule Pagoda. The square dates from 1867 to 1868, when a vacant, swampy site originally known as Tank Square was cleared and laid out as a public recreation ground.]]
[[Lieutenant-General]] '''Albert Fytche''' [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] (21 September 1820 – 16 June 1892) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer who served as [[British rule in Burma|Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma]] from February 1867 to April 1871. Educated at [[Rugby School]] and commissioned in the 1830s, he was promoted to captain in the 1840s. A string of promotions followed: major in 1853, lieutenant-colonel in 1862, colonel in 1864, major-general in 1868 and lieutenant-general in 1877.

The bird ''[[Bambusicola fytchii]]'' is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4729-8269-8 |page=204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_3QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 |language=en}}</ref>

He was the son of John Fytche of Thorpe Hall, [[Hoxne]], Suffolk, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendant of [[Ralph Fitch]] and [[William Fytche]]. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George Clayton Tennyson,<ref>{{cite book |title=Fitch of Louth |date=1906 |publisher=The Harleian Society |page=1226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIE_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1226 |language=en}}</ref> making him a first cousin of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], to whom he dedicated his book, ''Burma, Past and Present''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vibart |first1=Henry Meredith |title=Addiscombe: Its Heroes and Men of Note |date=1894 |publisher=Archibald Constable and Company |page=478 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8TbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA478 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ryley |first1=John Horton |last2=Fitch |first2=Ralph |title=Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma: His Companions and Contemporaries, with His Remarkable Narrative Told in His Own Words |year=1899 |publisher=T. F. Unwin |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YZCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA200 |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
* {{citation |last=Fytche |first=Albert |title=Burma, Past and Present |year=1878 |publisher=C. K. Paul & Co. }} [https://archive.org/details/b29352393_0001 Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/burmapastpresen02fytc/page/n10 Volume II]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Myanmar World Statesmen]

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