Which British author went to Eton and later served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma?
"(1870-1875) assigned the first police officer to be stationed at Maliwan, a village 24 miles north of current Victoria Point. Perhaps the most famous policeman in Burma from this period is the author George Orwell, who in 1922 joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. On 16 March 1988 following the killing of two students during the pro-democracy demonstrations, students marching on Prome Road were confronted near Inya Lake by the ""Lon Htein"" security force riot police and many beaten to death or drowned. The national police are made up of several smaller entities, including The current Director General of"
"he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer, with effect from 12 March 1928 after five-and-a-half years of service. He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934) and the essays ""A Hanging"" (1931) and ""Shooting an Elephant"" (1936). In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner. He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. In 1927 he moved to London. Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and"
"but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen"". Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma, (now Myanmar). Burma had become part of the British Empire during the 19th century as an adjunct of British India. The British colonized Burma in stages—it was not until 1885 when they captured the royal capital of Mandalay that Burma as a whole could be declared part of the British Empire. Migrant workers from India and China supplemented the native Burmese population. Although Burma was the wealthiest country in"
"have no regrets that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police."", in ""Shooting an Elephant"" (1936), he pointed out that ""In Moulmein in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people–the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."" ""Notes"" Indian Imperial Police The Indian Imperial Police, referred to variously as the Indian (Imperial) Police or simply the Indian Police or, by 1905, Imperial Police, was part of the Indian Police Services, the uniform system of police administration in British India, as established by"
"until the end of the war. On January 17, 1946, he was awarded an OBE for his service in Burma. After a spell as a staff officer in GHQ India in Delhi, he then served as an instructor at the British Army Staff College, Camberley. He left the army after this posting, and moved to the United States, where he attempted to set up a business promoting walking tours in the Himalayas, one of his hobbies. The business was not a success and, to make ends meet, he decided to write of his experiences in the army. When his novels"
"by Orwell in ""The Listener"", published 9 March 1938: A new edition of the book was published in 1945. It contains an introduction written by the author dated 14 May 1945, and commenting on events in Burma since the book was originally published. Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations"
"Imperial Police, in Burma, from October 1920 to December 1927, eventually resigning while on leave in England, having attained the rank of Assistant District Superintendent at District Headquarters, first in Insein, and later at Moulmein. He wrote of how having been in contact with, in his own words, ""the dirty work of Empire at close quarters"" had affected his personal, political and social outlook. Some of the works referring to his experiences include ""A Hanging"" (1931), set in the notorious Insein Prison, and his novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934). Likewise, although he wrote that, ""I loved Burma and the Burman and"
"of Persian poetry. He died in Dorset Square, London, on 16 November 1835. Thomas Duer Broughton Thomas Duer Broughton (1778–1835) was an English soldier and writer on India. Thomas Duer Broughton was son of the Reverend Thomas Broughton, rector of St. Peter's, Bristol. He was educated at Eton, and went to India in 1795 as a cadet in the East India Company's Bengal Army. He became a lieutenant in 1797 and fought at the siege of Seringapatam in 1799. He was later appointed adjutant and assistant teacher of Hindi to the Cadet company(described in his obituary in the ""United Services"
"13 October 1933. Albert De Wilton Major Albert Walter De Wilton (1862–1933) was the fifth British colonial Inspector-General of Police in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Wilton was born in Samalkota, India, in 1862, the second son of Dr Jacob Wilkins (1830–1879) and Judith Laura née Montefiore (1835–1899). He received his early education at Brighton and Southsea Military College, where he graduated in 1880. He joined the militia the following year, attending Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, obtaining his commission in 1883 as a Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers. He saw active service in the Burma Campaigns of 1885, 1887 and 1889 and"
"Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations between Burmese, Indians and British became particularly difficult. In ""Trials in Burma"" he gives special attention to the political trial of J. M. Sen Gupta, mayor of Calcutta, for sedition in impromptu speeches made during a brief visit to Rangoon in 1930; also"
"1934. Alice Perrin by Melissa Edmundson Alice Perrin Alice Perrin or Alice Robinson (15 July, 1867 – 13 February, 1934) was a British novelist who wrote about the British in colonial India. She became successful after the publication of her short ghost story collection ""East of Suez"". Perrin was born in the hill station of Mussoorie in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson. Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet had been a director of the East India Company."
"Alice Perrin Alice Perrin or Alice Robinson (15 July, 1867 – 13 February, 1934) was a British novelist who wrote about the British in colonial India. She became successful after the publication of her short ghost story collection ""East of Suez"". Perrin was born in the hill station of Mussoorie in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson. Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet had been a director of the East India Company. She was sent to England where"
"Ernest Warwick Ernest Warwick was a British author, prisoner of war and survivor of the Burma to Siam death railway. Ernest Edward Lawrence Warwick was born in Brighton in 1918 towards the end of the first World War. He had a tough upbringing through the slump and poverty of the thirties. The eldest of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters, he was forced to leave school at 13 years of age after his father had been killed the day before in a road accident. At the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939, he was called up and,"
"Albert De Wilton Major Albert Walter De Wilton (1862–1933) was the fifth British colonial Inspector-General of Police in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Wilton was born in Samalkota, India, in 1862, the second son of Dr Jacob Wilkins (1830–1879) and Judith Laura née Montefiore (1835–1899). He received his early education at Brighton and Southsea Military College, where he graduated in 1880. He joined the militia the following year, attending Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, obtaining his commission in 1883 as a Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers. He saw active service in the Burma Campaigns of 1885, 1887 and 1889 and was awarded a"
"appeared in channel 4's scars of war documentary recounting his experiences in captivity. Also he was flown to New York to give evidence in federal court on his experiences on the river kwai in a case against Sony. Ernest Warwick Ernest Warwick was a British author, prisoner of war and survivor of the Burma to Siam death railway. Ernest Edward Lawrence Warwick was born in Brighton in 1918 towards the end of the first World War. He had a tough upbringing through the slump and poverty of the thirties. The eldest of eight children, with four brothers and three sisters,"
"Thomas Jacomb Hutton Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, KCB, KCIE, MC & bar (27 March 1890 – 17 January 1981) was a British Army officer who held a variety of vital staff appointments between World War I and World War II, ultimately commanding the ""Burma Army"" during the early stages of the Japanese conquest of Burma in early 1942. Hutton was married to Scottish psychiatrist Isabel Emslie Hutton (1887-1960). Thomas Jacomb Hutton was born on 27 March 1890 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, the eldest son of William Henry Hutton, and was educated at Rossall School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. On 23"
"Office in 1899. He was also Colonel of the 23rd Sikh Pioneers. Edward Stedman General Sir Edward Stedman (1842–1925) was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as Military Secretary to the India Office. Stedman was commissioned into the Bengal Staff Corps in 1860. By 1887 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 3 Gorkha Rifles and was strongly commended for his leadership in Upper Burma by Major-General Sir George Stuart White, Commanding the Upper Burma Field Force. Later that year Stedman was made Inspector-General of Police in Upper Burma. He joined the Chitral Expedition in 1895 as Second-in-command"
"his area of operations. <br> <br> <br> Edgar Peacock Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock, (11 February 1893 – March 1955) was a decorated British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War. He had previously served in Burma for many years as Deputy Conservator of Forests, and Game Warden. Edgar Peacock was born in Nagpur, India on 11 February 1893. He entered the Indian Forest Service in 1914, training at the Forest Research Institute College at Dehra Dun and, upon graduation, took up his first posting in the Hinthada area. In 1924,"
"Herbert Thirkell White Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855–1931) was the Lieutenant Governor of the British Indian province of Burma (1905–1910) and the author of several books on Burma, the best known of which is the classic, ""A Civil Servant in Burma"" (E. Arnold, 1913), which is based on the 32 years (1878–1910) he spent as a civil servant in that province. White also authored the fourth volume ""Burma"" of the four volume series ""Provincial Geographies of India"" which was published between 1913-23 from the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland. The son of Richard White, he"
"Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and then as a boarder at Bedford School. In 1887, after his retirement, his father returned from Burma and embarked upon a series of European travels with Hector and his siblings. Hector followed his father in 1893 into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma, but successive bouts of fever meant his return home after only fifteen months. In 1896, he decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Munro started his writing career as a journalist for newspapers such as the ""Westminster Gazette"", the ""Daily"
"present in colonial India towards the first half of the twentieth century. In Burma, he befriended his superior, and when with him, is treated to a life that he had known not since he had left England. He is able to attend the clubs whilst in this man's company, and is sometimes invited to make up a bridge four. Although, it eventually becomes apparent that he is only being treated kindly by the white ruling class when in this man's company, and when his superior leaves town for several days, he is again treated horribly. This book was originally published"
"England, and a granddaughter of Edward England. Dudley Thornton Colonel Dudley Edwin Thornton, CBE, ERD (1 May 1919 – 22 April 2009) was a British soldier, who commanded the 18th Battalion of the King's African Rifles during the Burma Campaign, and was chairman of the Welch Regiment Museum, in Cardiff, from 1974 until his death. Dudley Edwin Thornton was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 1 May 1919. His father was Edwin Dudley (1865–1951), an electrical engineer, and his mother was Dorothy Rebecca Bryer (1894–1973). Thornton was educated, and brought up, in Bristol. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II,"
"Leon Comber Leon (Leonard Francis) Comber (born 20 September 1921) was a British military and police officer, and later book publisher, operating in British India, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. He was also an editor and author of books relating to South-East Asia. Comber, an only child, was born in London. His mother was married to a master bookbinder and typesetter. He was reading law at King's College, London, in 1939 when the Second World War began. During World War Two, Comber served as a British officer in the Indian Army and took part in military operations in Assam"
"Burma, where he held office as Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of British Burma. According to ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"" (""ODNB""), in an article originally written in 1899 by Stephen Wheeler and later revised by David Washbrook in 2004, he had a three-year furlough in England between 1873 and 1876 and then returned to Calcutta, where he produced further reports based on records held by government departments and also an official history of the Imperial Assemblage (the Delhi Durbar) that took place in 1877. He was given permission to publish these later works, which had not been the case"
"Richard Francis Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of ""One Thousand and One Nights"""
"which three Anglo-Burmese wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. It was administered as a province of India until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing colony, attaining its independence on January 4, 1948. With a strong interest in the lives of the working class, Orwell—born in India to a middle-class family, but brought up in Britain—held the post of assistant superintendent in the British Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. ""Moulmein used to be full of elephants..."" [employed to] haul logs in the timber firms. ""Ordinary tamed elephants have been part of Burmese"
"in England unlikely. After a year as a tutor in Reading, he took up a position at the University of Rangoon in Myanmar (then Burma) in 1937. There he became interested in the colonial struggle for independence, and produced a steady stream of high-quality work on the geography of Myanmar. When World War II broke out, Spate joined he army as a volunteer and was seriously injured in the first Japanese raid on the Rangoon airport. He was evacuated to India, where he recuperated, wrote poetry, and served in the unusual capacity of a military censor. In 1944, he moved"
"Burmese Days Burmese Days is a novel by English writer George Orwell. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India – ""a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj."" At its centre is John Flory, ""the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature."" Orwell's first novel, it describes ""corruption and imperial bigotry"" in a society where, ""after all, natives were natives—interesting, no"
"British Lepidoptera. He served during the war in India and Burma with the 6th Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served with the 25th Indian Division and was made MBE was for his official history of the Arakan campaign in Burma. While in India there was time to watch and collect butterflies. Emmet retired in 1957 and spent a some years living in Bristol with his sister Margery and working as a part-time selector for the RAF and as an examiner for the London University Examinations Board. In 1964 he moved to Saffron Walden,"
"retired to Hampshire, where he remained until his death in Southampton in 1935. Henry V. M. Langtry Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Vivian Montague Langtry (12 November 1869, Cheltenham, Gloucester - 22 August 1935, Southampton) was an officer of the Burma Military Police. Langtry was originally commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment as a Second Lieutenant 21 January 1888, be promoted Lieutenant 26 October 1889. He was then commissioned into the regular battalions (1st or 2nd) of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment as a Second Lieutenant 4 February 1891. He first arrived in India 7 December 1891"
"Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman is a book of correspondence, in the form of letters, from Arvind Nehra, an Indian judge in colonial India. First published in 1934, this compilation of letters that were ""unhindered by thoughts of public utterance"". Nehra met the English woman, the wife of an English Colonel, at a party at Government House in Calcutta, after having recently returned from university in Cambridge. The author is then sent to Burma and he documents his time there, suffering all the racism that was ever"
"was an independent kingdom, while Lower Burma was part of the British Empire. During his period in this post, king Mindon of Burma died in October 1878 and was succeeded by king Thibaw. Shaw died in Mandalay on 15 June 1879. Attribution Robert Barkley Shaw Robert Barkley Shaw (12 July 1839 – 15 June 1879) was a British explorer and diplomat. He was an early English traveller to Kashgar in Central Asia, and he established a relation with the local leader; he was later a member of a diplomatic expedition to the area. He became a diplomat in northern India"
"H. R. F. Keating Henry Reymond Fitzwalter ""Harry"" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. Keating, known as ""Harry"" to friends and family, was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and typed out his first story at the age of eight. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School in London and later Trinity College, Dublin. In 1956 he moved to London to work as a journalist on ""The Daily Telegraph"". He was the crime books reviewer for ""The Times"" for"