Sir Howard Vincent (1849-1908)

Educated WestminsterSchool^?, well versed in foreign languages. 1868 Sandhurst, commissioned in Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Called to bar (InnerTemple^?) 1876; faculté de droit, University of Paris 1877 and first Director of CriminalInvestigationDepartment, ScotlandYard 1878. Resigned in 1884 and elected as ConservativeParty MP for Central Sheffield in November 1885. Leading advocate of imperialism and protectionism.

• Short, K.R.M. “Biographical Notes.” The Dynamite War: Irish-American Bombers in Victorian Britain. 261-66. __Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979.

-- ChrisLehrich^? - 22 Jan 2005