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	'''Sir Charles George Todhunter''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|KCSI}} (16 February 1869 – 1 March 1949) was a ~~[[New Zealand]]-born~~ [[civil servant]] in [[British India]].		'''Sir Charles George Todhunter''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCSI}} (16 February 1869 – 1 March 1949) was a British [[civil servant]] in [[British India]].

	Todhunter was educated in [[England]] at [[Aldenham School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad\|id=TDHR888CG\|name=Todhunter, Charles George}}</ref> He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1888 and was assigned to the [[Madras Presidency]].		Todhunter was of New Zealand background and educated in [[England]] at [[Aldenham School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad\|id=TDHR888CG\|name=Todhunter, Charles George}}</ref> He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1888 and was assigned to the [[Madras Presidency]].

	He was Deputy Commissioner for [[salt]], ''abkari'' ([[excise duties]]) and [[Customs duties\|customs]], and then Secretary of the Board of Revenue. He was then responsible for the reorganisation of customs and excise arrangements in much of India and was then appointed Director-General of Excise and Salt of the [[British Raj\|Government of India]].		He was Deputy Commissioner for [[salt]], ''abkari'' ([[excise duties]]) and [[Customs duties\|customs]], and then Secretary of the Board of Revenue. He was then responsible for the reorganisation of customs and excise arrangements in much of India and was then appointed Director-General of Excise and Salt of the [[British Raj\|Government of India]].
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Sir Charles Todhunter
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]]
| image =
| order =
| office1 = Governor of Madras (acting)
| governor-general1 = [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading]]
| premier1 = [[Raja of Panagal]]
| term_start1 = {{start date|df=yes|1924|4|12}}
| term_end1 = {{end date|df=yes|1924|4|14}}
| predecessor1 = [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon]]
| successor1 = [[George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|2|16|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|3|01|1869|2|16|df=y}}
| death_place =
| spouse =
| profession = [[Civil servant]]
| religion =
}}

'''Sir Charles George Todhunter''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI}} (16 February 1869 – 1 March 1949) was a [[New Zealand]]-born [[civil servant]] in [[British India]].

Todhunter was educated in [[England]] at [[Aldenham School]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=TDHR888CG|name=Todhunter, Charles George}}</ref> He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1888 and was assigned to the [[Madras Presidency]].

He was Deputy Commissioner for [[salt]], ''abkari'' ([[excise duties]]) and [[Customs duties|customs]], and then Secretary of the Board of Revenue. He was then responsible for the reorganisation of customs and excise arrangements in much of India and was then appointed Director-General of Excise and Salt of the [[British Raj|Government of India]].

Returning to Madras, he was successively a member of the Board of Revenue, Chief Secretary to the Government, and a member of the [[Governor of Madras|Governor's]] Executive Council. From 1924 he was president of the Indian Taxation Inquiry Committee. On his retirement from the ICS he became private secretary to the [[Maharaja of Mysore]], holding the post for sixteen years until the [[Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV|maharaja's]] death in 1940, when he settled down on his farm in the [[Kenjari]] district of [[Kingdom of Mysore|Mysore State]].

He was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in the 1920 [[New Year Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=4 |supp=y}}</ref> and [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI) in the [[1921 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32346|supp=y|page=4533|date=4 June 1921}}</ref>

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 7 March 1949

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[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]
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