Charles Howard (police officer)


Sir Andrew Charles Howard was the third Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, serving in the post from 1890 to 1902. He was the first career police officer to be appointed an Assistant Commissioner.
Howard was born in Shaldon, Devon. He joined the Merchant Navy and was commissioned into the East India Company's army, serving with Rattray's Sikhs throughout the Indian Mutiny. He then served with the police in Bengal. He was chief of police of Monghyr and Patna from 1864 to 1867, when he returned to England. He was one of the first four men appointed to the new rank of District Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police on 25 February 1869. On 22 October 1886 this rank was renamed Chief Constable.
He was appointed to the post of Assistant Commissioner on 22 June 1890. He retired on 29 September 1902. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Birthday Honours, having been appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1894 and knighted in 1897.
Howard married Emily Emma Montgomery in 1871. She died on 26 February 1929.

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