| Office | Director, Delhi Intelligence Bureau
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|---|---|
| Office | Special advisor to the Secretary of State for India
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| Term start | 1931 |
| Term end | 1936 |
| Predecessor | David Petrie
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| Born | 1880
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| Died | 15 April 1965
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Sir Horace Williamson Template:Post-nominals (1880 - 15 April 1965) was a British colonial officer in the Indian Imperial Police and director of the Delhi Intelligence Bureau.[1][2]
Biography
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
- India and Communism{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Government of India Press(1933)
See also
References
- ↑ To Guard my People: The History of the Indian Police{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Ernest Benn Ltd.(1971). ISBN 0-510-26942-7
- ↑ Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Hachette(2022). ISBN 978-93-93701-27-5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Bloomsbury Publishing USA(2014). ISBN 978-0-8108-7896-9
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Lot 218, 25 March 2014 | Noonans Mayfair. www.noonans.co.uk(2014). Retrieved 30 September 2025.
- ↑ Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Bloomsbury Publishing USA(2015). ISBN 979-8-8818-7563-3
- ↑ Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Springer(2019). ISBN 978-3-030-18042-3
Further reading
- Hunter Report on the Amritsar Massacre, 1919{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. H.M. Stationery Office(1920)