C. E. A. W. Oldham

Charles Evelyn Arbuthnot William Oldham, CSI, FRGS or C. E. A. W. Oldham (15 September 1869 — 18 November 1949) was a British Indian civil servant, historian and scholar.

Oldham was born in Galway, son of geologist Charles Aemilius Oldham and was educated at Galway Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford.

He was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first class in 1902 for his services during the plague in Gaya.

He was an expert on Magadhi, Maithili, and Bhojpuri and worked on local archaeology.

He edited notes on the travels of Francis Buchanan in Bhagalpur and Shahabad.