Sri Manmath Kumar Basu Thakur was the fourth son of Shri Hara Kumar Basu Thakur. He was born in May, 1869 at Teotia village of Bikrampur district. In 1895 he passed B.E. examination from Sheppard engineering College and started as an intern in Kolkata municipality (it was not corporation at that time). Later he worked under the government’s Unit of Public Works Department as an assistant engineer. Due to his type of work he was transferred in various places of Bihar, Odisha and finally he was promoted to the post of Executive Engineer in Cuttack. In 1928 he retired from his government job. After retirement he started staying in his house at Mahim Halder Street in Kolkata. He was a part of Bangladesh cricket in the Nineteenth century and that was discussed later.

Though he was staying in Kolkata, every year during the time of Durga Puja he used to visit his village house at Malkhanagarh. For those few months he used to enjoy life in the village. He installed a tube well for the good of the people in his village once the use of tube well gathered popularity among common people of the village. Because he loved his village so much on the ninth of Kali Puja in year 1933 he expired in his village home at Malkhanagarh and was laid to rest there.