Crozier Fullerton Tofts
Crozier Fullerton Tofts (1884-1944) F.C.S., M.Inst. M. M., M.I. and S.I., F.R.S.A.,
1884 born, son of B. Crozier Tofts.
Educated at St. Paul's Sch., London.
Training: Royal Technical College, Glasgow.
Assistant to Prof. F. W. Harbord, C.B.E., F.I.C., A.R.S.M., F.C.S.
Assistant Chemist and Metallurgist, East Indian Railway.
By 1922 Chief Metallurgist, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
By 1939 was representative of Arthur Balfour and Co., Capital Steel Works, Sheffield
1944 Obituary.[1]
Major Crozier Fullerton Tofts was for 35 years in the service of the Indian State Rlys. (Mechanical Branch). Born in 1887, he was at school at Collet Court, London, and Ewart Academy, N.B. For four years he attended the Royal Technical College, Glasgow! studying Metallurgical Engineering, and obtaining his“ Assaying ” Certificate with credit in 1909. For a time he was an assistant to Prof. Harbord, who was a Consulting Metallurgist to the Indian Govt., and then accepted an appointment as Metallurgist to the Indian State Railways and was posted to the East Indian Rly. (Loco. Dept.) at Jamalpur.
Five years, later he was transferred to the Great India Peninsular Rly. as Chief Metallurgist, which post he held until he returned to England in 1928, where he was posted to Sheffield as the Govt, of India Railway Representative (Metallurgical) with Messrs. Arthur Balfour and Co., Ltd. Major Tofts was commissioned in Reserve of Officers, Indian Army, in 1910 and retired with the rank of Major. He was recalled for military service in August, 1939, and he served in the Queen's Royal Regiment and the Lincolnshire, from 1940 to 1943, as Brigade Major until he retired in April, 1943, returning to his civil appointment. He was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1932.
His death occurred suddenly in King’s College Hospital on Sept. 24th, 1944, in his 57th year.