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.
Dates
- Creation: [1980s]
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 540].
Shelfmark:
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 540
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3277
Biographical / Historical
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.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were donated to the library via A.H.M. Kirk-Greene on 7th May 1996.
- Title
- Memoir of R.T. Michelin
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Paul Davidson
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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