Memoir of R.T. Michelin

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 540
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1980s]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder

Scope and Content

It was always hot, typescript memoir, [1980s], of his time in the Colonial Police Service in Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados and the Leeward Islands, 1924-1958.

Administrative / Biographical History

Reginald Townend Michelin (1903-1998), CMG (1957), CVO (1953), OBE (1952) took the post of Sub-Inspector, Police, Jamaica, 1924 and Inspector, Police, Leeward Islands, 1928. He was made Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria, 1930, and Commissioner of Police, Barbados, 1949 and Jamaica, 1953, retiring in 1958. After his retirement he was General Manager of the Agualta Vale Estates, Jamaica, 1958-1964 and held a post in the Jamaica Tourist Board, 1964-1973. In 1940 he married Nina Gladys Faulkner, with whom he had one son and one daughter.

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Note

Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Related Material

Notes on service with the Nigeria Police, 1930-1949 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1784 (13)).