Education
Todhunter was educated in England at Aldenham School and King"s College, Cambridge.
Todhunter was educated in England at Aldenham School and King"s College, Cambridge.
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, 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 Government of India.
From 1924 he was president of the Indian Taxation Inquiry Committee.
On his retirement from the International Correspondence Schools he became private secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, holding the post for sixteen years until the maharaja"s death in 1940, when he settled down on his farm in the Kenjari district of Mysore State.
Returning to Madras, he was successively a member of the Board of Revenue, Chief Secretary to the Government, and a member of the Governor"s Executive Council.