Horace Williamson
Horace Williamson | |
|---|---|
| Director, Delhi Intelligence Bureau | |
| In office 1931–1936 | |
| Preceded by | David Petrie |
| Special advisor to the Secretary of State for India | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1880 |
| Died | 15 April 1965 (aged 84–85) |
| Profession | Police officer |
Sir Horace Williamson CIE, MBE (1880 - 15 April 1965) was a British colonial officer in the Indian Imperial Police and director of the Delhi Intelligence Bureau.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Horace Wiiliamson was born in 1880 to a barrister.[3] He was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Indian Police Service in the United Provinces in 1900.[3][4]
Williamson rose through the ranks, becoming in charge of the police in Agra in 1909.[4] He then became Superintendent in 1913 and Assistant to the Inspector General in 1916.[3][4] He was awarded the M.B.E. in 1919 and the C.I.E. in 1921.[4] Promoted to Deputy Inspector General in 1923, he later served as Officiating Inspector General in 1928.[3][4] In 1931, at the height of the civil disobedience movement, he succeeded David Petrie as Director of the Delhi Intelligence Bureau, a position for which he was awarded the King's Police Medal later that year.[3][4][5][6] Between 1936 and 1942 he was special advisor to the Secretary of State for India.[3]
He died in 1965.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- India and Communism. Calcutta: Government of India Press. 1933.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Griffiths, Percival (1971). To Guard my People: The History of the Indian Police (PDF). London: Ernest Benn Ltd. p. 224. ISBN 0-510-26942-7.
- ^ Nair, Sunil (2022). "3. Murder they wrote: The Fulham Clark affair". Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India. Hachette. p. 24. ISBN 978-93-93701-27-5.
- ^ a b c d e f g West, Nigel (2014). "The Dictionary". Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Second ed.). Plymouth: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 639. ISBN 978-0-8108-7896-9.
- ^ a b c d e f "Lot 218, 25 March 2014 | Noonans Mayfair". www.noonans.co.uk. 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
- ^ West, Nigel (2015). Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. xvii. ISBN 979-8-8818-7563-3.
- ^ Silvestri, Michael (2019). Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939. Springer. p. 90. ISBN 978-3-030-18042-3.
Further reading
[edit]- Hunter Report on the Amritsar Massacre, 1919. Calcutta: H.M. Stationery Office. 1920.
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