Albert Fytche

Albert Fytche
Lieutenant-General; Albert Fytche; CSI
2nd Chief Commissioner of Burma
	In office; 16 February 1867 – 18 April 1871
Preceded by	Arthur Purves Phayre
Succeeded by	Ashley Eden
Personal details
Born	21 September 1820[1]
Died	16 June 1892 (aged 71); Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Administrator

Lieutenant-General Albert Fytche CSI (21 September 1820 – 16 June 1892) was a British Indian Army officer who served as 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.

Fytche Square, Rangoon, (now 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.

The bird Bambusicola fytchii is named in his honour.[2]

He was the son of John Fytche of Thorpe Hall, Hoxne, Suffolk, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendent of Ralph Fitch and William Fytche. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George Clayton Tennyson,[3] making him a first cousin of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to whom he dedicated his book, Burma, Past and Present.[4][5]

Works

Fytche, Albert (1878), Burma, Past and Present, C. K. Paul & Co. Volume I Volume II

References

Official Quarterly Half-Yearly Army List. 1881. p. 128. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2020). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4729-8269-8. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
Fitch of Louth. The Harleian Society. 1906. p. 1226. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
Vibart, Henry Meredith (1894). Addiscombe: Its Heroes and Men of Note. Archibald Constable and Company. p. 478. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
Ryley, John Horton; Fitch, Ralph. Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma: His Companions and Contemporaries, with His Remarkable Narrative Told in His Own Words. T. F. Unwin. p. 200. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

External links

World Statesmen

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Arthur Purves Phayre	Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of Burma 1867–1871	Succeeded by Ashley Eden

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[1] Official Quarterly Half-Yearly Army List. 1881. p. 128. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

[2] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2020). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4729-8269-8. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

[3] Fitch of Louth. The Harleian Society. 1906. p. 1226. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

[4] Vibart, Henry Meredith (1894). Addiscombe: Its Heroes and Men of Note. Archibald Constable and Company. p. 478. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

[5] Ryley, John Horton; Fitch, Ralph. Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma: His Companions and Contemporaries, with His Remarkable Narrative Told in His Own Words. T. F. Unwin. p. 200. Retrieved 3 February 2021.