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Scottish police officer (1835–1921)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Smith KCB (15 December 1835 – 2 March 1921) was a Scottish police officer who was Commissioner of the City of London Police.

Smith was born in Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Rev. George Smith of the Church of Scotland and Jane Hogarth. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. After serving as a constable in a Scottish county force, he went to London in 1879. He was unanimously elected to the post on 28 July 1890, the first to hold the post after joining the same force as a Constable. He had also been Acting Commissioner since the resignation of James Fraser.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1896 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1897. He tendered his resignation as Commissioner early in December 1902 due to friction with the Police Committee over the administration of the force and left office late that month.

He died in Edinburgh in 1921.

References

  1. 'The London City Police, Belfast News-Letter, 29 July 1890, page 5.
  2. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2531.
  3. "Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Smith, K.C.B." Yorkshire Post. 5 March 1921. p. 14. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  4. 'Pithy Paragraphs of the Week', Larne Times, 21 January 1911, page 11
  5. 'Condensed Intelligence', Reading Mercury, 7 December 1901, page 10
  6. 'Jottings by Wire', Portsmouth Evening News, 2 December 1901, page 6.
  7. Coventry Evening Telegraph, 4 March 1921, page 3.
Police appointments
Preceded byJames Fraser Commissioner of the City of London Police
1890–1902 		Succeeded byWilliam Nott-Bower


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