Horace Williamson

Sir
Horace Williamson
Director, Delhi Intelligence Bureau
In office
1931–1936
Preceded byDavid Petrie
Special advisor to the Secretary of State for India
Personal details
Born1880 (1880)
Died15 April 1965(1965-04-15) (aged 84–85)
ProfessionPolice officer

Sir Horace Williamson CIE, MBE (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. Calcutta: Government of India Press. 1933.

See also

References

  1. ^ Griffiths, Percival (1971). To Guard my People: The History of the Indian Police (PDF). London: Ernest Benn Ltd. p. 224. ISBN 0-510-26942-7.
  2. ^ Nair, Sunil (2022). "3. Murder they wrote: The Fulham Clark affair". Tales of Crimes Past: A Casebook of Crime in Colonial India. Hachette. p. 24. ISBN 978-93-93701-27-5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g West, Nigel (2014). "The Dictionary". Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Second ed.). Plymouth: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 639. ISBN 978-0-8108-7896-9.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Lot 218, 25 March 2014 | Noonans Mayfair". www.noonans.co.uk. 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2025. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  5. ^ West, Nigel (2015). Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. xvii. ISBN 979-8-8818-7563-3.
  6. ^ Silvestri, Michael (2019). Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939. Springer. p. 90. ISBN 978-3-030-18042-3.

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