Charles Howard

Sir Andrew Charles Howard (12 September 1832 – 11 June 1909) was the third Assistant Commissioner (Executive) of the London Metropolitan Police, serving in the post from 1890 to 1902. He was the first career police officer to be appointed an Assistant Commissioner.

Life Howard was born in Shaldon, Devon. He joined the Merchant Navy and was 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 was one of the first four men appointed to the new rank of District Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police on 25 February 1869. Howard married Emily Emma Montgomery in 1871. and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902. His wife died on 26 February 1929.