He joined the Merchant Navy but was later instead commissioned into the East India Company's army, serving with Rattray's Sikhs throughout the Indian Mutiny. He then served with the police in Bengal. He was chief of police of Monghyr and Patna from 1864 to 1867, when he returned to England. He next served as District Superintendent and Chief Constable (1869-1890) and Assistant Commissioner 'Executive' (1890-1902) of the Metropolitan Police.
In the meantime he was married by licence in his wife's home parish in Bath, with the couple resident at 6 Weymouth Street just east of Portland Place in the census later that year but in Clifton on their first child Robert Harry Montague's baptism there in 1872. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1894 and knighted in 1897.
After his retirement, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1902 Birthday Honours, and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902. He died in 1909 at 27 Devonshire Place in Marylebone, where he and his wife had been living since at least the 1881 census.
His funeral on 11 June was attended by his son Captain Howard, Commissioner Robert Anderson, Chief Constables Bolton Monsell and George Henry Dean, Chief Superintendent Wells, Chief Inspector Cross, Superintendents Olive, Robinson, Wakeford and Glayzer, retired Assistant Commissioner Frederick Wodehouse and retired Superintendents Beard and Sherlock. Chief Inspector Darby of Marylebone (on whose beat he had died) was present at the cortege's departure, whilst his wife was absent but sent a wreath.
He joined the Merchant Navy but was later instead commissioned into the East India Company's army, serving with Rattray's Sikhs throughout the Indian Mutiny. He then served with the police in Bengal. He was chief of police of Monghyr and Patna from 1864 to 1867, when he returned to England. He next served as District Superintendent and Chief Constable (1869-1890) and Assistant Commissioner 'Executive' (1890-1902) of the Metropolitan Police.
In the meantime he was married by licence in his wife's home parish in Bath, with the couple resident at 6 Weymouth Street just east of Portland Place in the census later that year but in Clifton on their first child Robert Harry Montague's baptism there in 1872. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1894 and knighted in 1897.
After his retirement, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1902 Birthday Honours, and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902. He died in 1909 at 27 Devonshire Place in Marylebone, where he and his wife had been living since at least the 1881 census.
His funeral on 11 June was attended by his son Captain Howard, Commissioner Robert Anderson, Chief Constables Bolton Monsell and George Henry Dean, Chief Superintendent Wells, Chief Inspector Cross, Superintendents Olive, Robinson, Wakeford and Glayzer, retired Assistant Commissioner Frederick Wodehouse and retired Superintendents Beard and Sherlock. Chief Inspector Darby of Marylebone (on whose beat he had died) was present at the cortege's departure, whilst his wife was absent but sent a wreath.
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