Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.I.E. group of four to Henry P. Todd-Naylor, C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service and Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles
The Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., breast badge in gold and enamels, complete with top suspension; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Mr., C.S.); Indian Volunteer Forces Decoration, E.V11.R. (Major, C.I.E., Upper Burma Voltr. Rfls.) complete with top suspension, together with companion miniatures of the last three, and a Great War pair to another member of the family (S. Todd-Naylor), the first with a few enamel chips, otherwise very fine (9)

C.S.I. 1909; C.I.E. 1890.
Henry Paul Todd-Naylor was educated at Shrewsbury and University College, Oxford. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1880, and served in Bengal as Assistant Magistrate and Collector; he transferred to Burma as Assistant Commissioner in March 1886, and became deputy Commissioner in May 1890. During his time in Burma he gained a reputation for high-handed and severe policing of the local dacoits, but his methods paid off and he established peace in all the areas in which he operated. Recognition came in 1890, when he was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. In 1892 he took a years leave in England, took his M.A. and rowed for his Oxford college. In April 1902 he was confirmed as Commissioner in Burma, and was found to be as good at reconstructing districts as he was at pacifying them. In 1909 he was further rewarded, this time as a Companion of the Order of the Star of India, but pressure of work made it impossible for him to go to India to receive it himself at the hands of Lord Minto. ‘Harry’ Todd-Naylor died the following year after a short illness.