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. 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
- 1842 - Richard Fletcher
- 1843–1866 - Charles Reeves
- 1867–1868 - Thomas Charles Sorby
- 1868–1885 - Frederick Henry Caiger
- 1885–1920 - John Dixon Butler
- 1921–1947 - Gilbert Mackenzie Trench
- 1947–1974 - John Innes Elliott
- 1974–1988 - Michael Louis Belchamber
- 1988–? - T. Lawrence
Notes
- Also the designer of the Metropolitan Police box which was subsequently the inspiration for the TARDIS.
References
- Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff, 1979, page 128
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.