John Hall-Dalwood Explained

Honorific Prefix:Lieutenant-Colonel
John Hall-Dalwood
Office:Chief Constable of Sheffield City Police
Term Start:January 1913
Term End:March 1926
Office2:Chief Constable of Leicester City Police
Term Start2:1907
Term End2:January 1913
Office3:Deputy Chief Constable of Kent County Constabulary
Term Start3:1902
Term End3:1907
Birth Date:19 September 1868
Birth Place:Sherborne, Dorset, England
Death Place:Worthing, Sussex, England

Lieutenant-Colonel John Hall-Dalwood CBE (19 September 1868 - 5 March 1954) was a British soldier and police officer who served as Chief Constable of Sheffield City Police.

Hall-Dalwood was born in Sherborne, Dorset, in 1868, the son of a chemist and druggist. He was commissioned into the Connaught Rangers, in which he served for fifteen years; after leaving the Regular Army he joined the Territorial Army and went on to command the 6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. He was also a qualified barrister. After leaving the Army he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary, and was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Kent County Constabulary in 1902 and Chief Constable of Leicester City Police in 1907. In January 1913 he was appointed Chief Constable of Sheffield. His career was brought to an end by the Sheffield Gang Wars; in March 1926 he was pressurised into resigning by the local Watch Committee, which did not consider he had done enough to control the violence.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.

He died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1954.

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