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| name = Sir Charles Todhunter<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]]<br />
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| order =<br />
| office1 = Governor of Madras (acting)<br />
| governor-general1 = [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading]]<br />
| premier1 = [[Raja of Panagal]]<br />
| term_start1 = {{start date|df=yes|1924|4|12}}<br />
| term_end1 = {{end date|df=yes|1924|4|14}}<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon]]<br />
| successor1 = [[George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|2|16|df=y}}<br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|3|01|1869|2|16|df=y}}<br />
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| profession = [[Civil servant]]<br />
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'''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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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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><br />
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==References==<br />
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 7 March 1949<br />
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