William Henry Ravenscroft,
CMG (11 January 1843 – 29 May 1890) was the 18th
Auditor General and
of
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
He was born the son of Henry William Ravenscroft of London. He served in the Commissariat Department of the Army from 1861 to 1874 and as Auditor-General for
Griqualand West in 1876.
He was appointed
Auditor General of Ceylon
The Auditor General of Sri Lanka ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති ''Śrī Laṃkā viganakādhipathi''; Tamil: இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை) is appointed by th ...
on 23 May 1877, succeeding
C. A. D. Barclay, and held the office until his death in 1890, when he was succeeded by
G. T. M. O'Brien.
He died in Ceylon in 1890. He had married Edith Elizabeth Fox and had 2 sons and a daughter.
References
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1843 births
1890 deaths
Civil servants from London
British colonial governors and administrators in Africa
People from British Ceylon
Auditors General of Sri Lanka
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George