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'''Sir Alfred Woodley Croft''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE}} (7 February 1841 – 29 October 1925)<ref name="Nightingale2005">{{cite book|author=Florence Nightingale|title=Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofbCmnAZpsYC&pg=PA71|year=2005|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-0-88920-466-9|page=71}}</ref> was a | '''Sir Alfred Woodley Croft''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE}} (7 February 1841 – 29 October 1925)<ref name="Nightingale2005">{{cite book|author=Florence Nightingale|title=Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofbCmnAZpsYC&pg=PA71|year=2005|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-0-88920-466-9|page=71}}</ref> was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in [[India]]. From 1877 until his retirement in 1897 he was Director of Public Instruction in [[Bengal]], and was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in November 1884. | ||
Born in [[Compton Gifford]], he was the son of Charles and Charlotte Croft. He was educated at the [[Mannamead School]]. He graduated BA in philosophy from the [[Exeter College, Oxford]] in 1863 and an MA in 1871. He went to [[Calcutta]] to join the [[Bengal Education Service]] in 1866 as a professor of philosophy to [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]], then under the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name="Whitehead2003">{{cite book|author=Clive Whitehead|title=Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dij297KbFDAC&pg=PA23|year=2003|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-864-9|page=23}}</ref> | Born in [[Compton Gifford]], he was the son of Charles and Charlotte Croft. He was educated at the [[Mannamead School]]. He graduated BA in philosophy from the [[Exeter College, Oxford]] in 1863 and an MA in 1871. He went to [[Calcutta]] to join the [[Bengal Education Service]] in 1866 as a professor of philosophy to [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]], then under the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name="Whitehead2003">{{cite book|author=Clive Whitehead|title=Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dij297KbFDAC&pg=PA23|year=2003|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-864-9|page=23}}</ref> | ||