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Albert Fytche CSI (21 September 1820 – 16 June 1892) was a

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officer who served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from February 1867 to April 1871. Educated at

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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. The bird '' Bambusicola fytchii'' is named in his honour. He was the son of John Fytche of Thorpe Hall,

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, Suffolk, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendant of

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and

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. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, making him a first cousin of

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, to whom he dedicated his book, ''Burma, Past and Present''.

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1820 births 1892 deaths People educated at Rugby School Companions of the Order of the Star of India Administrators in British Burma British Indian Army generals 19th-century British writers {{UK-gov-bio-stub