Eric St Johnston Explained

Sir Thomas Eric St Johnston
Birth Date:1911 1, df=yes
Education:Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Occupation:Police officer

Sir Thomas Eric St Johnston,[1] CBE, KStJ, QPM, TD (7 January 1911 – 17 March 1986) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary from 1967 until 1970.[2]

St Johnson was educated at Bromsgrove School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a friend of the writer Nigel Balchin.[3] He joined the civilian staff of Scotland Yard; and was admitted a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1934. In 1940 he became Chief Constable of Oxfordshire, in 1944 of the Durham Police and in 1950 of the Lancashire Force. A former Colonel in the Royal Artillery TA, during World War II he was employed at the War Office. He was Director of Administration for Spencer Stuart & Associates from 1971 until 1975. In 1978 he published his autobiography One Policeman’s Story [4]

Honours



Ribbon Description Notes
Order of the British Empire (CBE)
  • Commander
  • Civil Division
Order of St John (K.StJ)
  • Knight of Justice
Knight Bachelor (Kt)
Queen's Police Medal (QPM)
France and Germany Star
Territorial Decoration (TD)
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Attention!. digital.slv.vic.gov.au. 25 October 2021. 25 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160654/http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/error.do;jsessionid=525BA7D8C096DECF26E20B7572E418BE. dead.
  2. Web site: Previous Chief Inspectors. HMICFRS.
  3. His Own Executioner, Derek Collett
  4. ‘ST JOHNSTON, Sir (Thomas) Eric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
  5. https://imsvintagephotos.com/sir-thomas-eric-st-johnston-1046088