The post of Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police was created in London, England in 1842 and renamed Chief Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police in 1949.[1] It was held by only nine people, five of whom served for over twenty years each. The force's first purpose-built station had been built at Bow Street in 1831, only two years after Sir Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act of 1829.
List
edit- 1842 - Richard Fletcher[2]
- 1843–1866 - Charles Reeves[2]
- 1867–1868 - Thomas Charles Sorby[2]
- 1868–1885 - Frederick Henry Caiger[2][3]
- 1885–1920 - John Dixon Butler [2]
- 1921–1947 - Gilbert Mackenzie Trench[a][6]
- 1947–1974 - John Innes Elliott[7]
- 1974–1988 - Michael Louis Belchamber[7]
- 1988–? - T. Lawrence[8]
Notes
edit- ^ Also the designer of the Metropolitan Police box which was subsequently the inspiration for the TARDIS.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff, 1979, page 128
- ^ a b c d e Fairfax, Quills, page 123
- ^ "Frederick Foord Caiger".
- ^ Historic England. "Metropolitan Police Box at National Tramway Museum (1109166)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Roberts, Andrew (1 October 2019). "What Was The London Police Box". The Oldie.
- ^ Cherry & Pevsner 2002b, p. 21.
- ^ a b Fairfax, Quills, page 149
- ^ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002b). London 3: North West. The Buildings of England. Newhaven, US and London: Yale University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-300-09652-1. OCLC 844442257.