Albert Fytche



Lieutenant-General Albert Fytche CSI (1820–1892), for whom is named the bird Bambusicola fytchii, served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from February 1867 to April 1871. 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.