C. F. Strickland

Claude Francis Strickland was a British colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service. Strickland was a leading theorist and advocate for the use of co-operatives across the British Empire.
Strickland was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served as registrar of co-operatives in Punjab from 1915 to 1920, and again from 1922 to 1927. In 1931 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. From 1937 to 1941 he lectured at the University of Oxford. He authored a series of books on co-operatives.