Background
CROFT, Alfred Woodley was born in 1841. Son of C. W. Croft, Plymouth.
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Alfred Woodley CROFT
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Studied at Mannamead School, Plymouth. Exeter College, Oxford. Bachelor of Arts 1863, Master of Arts 1870.
Career
Sometime Lecturer, Exeter College Oxford. Entered Bengal Educational Department, 1866. Director Public Instruction, Bengal, 1877-1897.
Retired 1897.
Member of Legislative Council Bengal, 92. President, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 93. Trustee, Indian Museum, 1894-1896.
Vice-Chancellor Calcutta University, 1894-1896.
Honourable Doctor of Laws 1897. Isa Governor and Treasurer of the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, a Governor of the Plymouth High School for Boys, and a Trustee of Kelly College, Tavistock. Cartulary-register 1887.
Justice of the Peace Devon.
Membership
Club: Royal Western Yacht, Plymouth.
