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{{Short description|British colonial administrator (1881–1962)}}

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{{Infobox person
| name = C. F. Strickland
| honorific_suffix = {{Postnom|country=GBR|CIE|size=100%}}
| birth_name = Claude Francis Strickland
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|12|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hampstead]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|01|30|1881|12|19|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Surrey]], England
| education = {{Plainlist|
* [[Winchester College]]
* [[New College, Oxford]]
}}
| spouse = {{Marriage|Dorothy Lisa Branson|1915-09-01}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=1915-09-11 |title=Strickland–Branson |work=[[The Australasian]] |location=Melbourne |pages=45}}</ref>
| children = 2
}}

'''Claude Francis Strickland''' {{Postnom|country=GBR|CIE}} (19 December 1881 – 30 January 1962) was a British [[colonial administrator]] in the [[Indian Civil Service]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1962-01-31 |title=Mr C. F. Strickland |work=[[The Times]] |pages=15 |issue=55303}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Kamenov |first=Nikolay |date=July 2019 |title=Imperial cooperative experiments and global market capitalism, c.1900–c.1960 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1740022819000044/type/journal_article |journal=[[Journal of Global History]] |language=en |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=219–237 |doi=10.1017/S1740022819000044 |s2cid=199282505 |issn=1740-0228|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Strickland was a leading theorist and advocate for the use of [[Cooperative|co-operatives]] across the British Empire.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Windel |first=Aaron |title=Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-520-38187-2 |series=Berkeley series in British studies |location=Oakland |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Windel |first=Aaron |url=https://archive.org/details/modernizationass0000unse |title=Modernization as Spectacle in Africa |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-253-01229-6 |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Peter J. |location=Bloomington |pages=99 |chapter=Mass Education, Cooperation, and the "African Mind" |editor-last2=Miescher |editor-first2=Stephan F. |editor-last3=Manuh |editor-first3=Takyiwaa |via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>

Strickland was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name=":0" /> He served as registrar of co-operatives in [[Punjab]] from 1915 to 1920, and again from 1922 to 1927.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 1931 he was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1931-01-01 |title=The New Year Honours |work=[[The Times]] |pages=6 |issue=45709}}</ref> From 1937 to 1941 he lectured at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=":0" /> He authored a series of books on co-operatives.

== References ==
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[[Category:1881 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Hampstead]]
[[Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford]]
[[Category:People educated at Winchester College]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Oxford]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:Cooperative advocates]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:British co-operative organisers]]

C. F. Strickland - Revision history

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