Eric St Johnston
Sir (Thomas) Eric St Johnston,[1] CBE, KStJ, QPM (7 January 1911 – 17 March 1986) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary from 1967 until 1970.[2]
St Johnson was educated at Bromsgrove School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the civilian staff of Scotland Yard; and was admitted a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1934. In 1940 he became Chief Constable of Oxfordshire, in 1944 of the Durham Police and in 1950 of the Lancashire Force. A former Colonel in the Royal Artillery TA, during World War Two he was employed at the War Office. He was Director of Administration for Spencer Stuart & Associates from 1971 until 1975. In 1978 he published his autobiography "One Policeman’s Story" [3]
References
- ↑ State Library, Victoria, Australia
- ↑ HMIC Profile
- ↑ ‘ST JOHNSTON, Sir (Thomas) Eric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
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| Preceded by Edward Dodd |
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England, Wales and Northern Ireland 1963 –1966 |
Succeeded by John McKay |
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