Notes for Charles Augustus TEGART

Notes for Charles Augustus TEGART

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TEGART PAPERS
Sir Charles Augustus Tegart. Joined Indian Police, Bengal 1901; Superintendent 1908; Deputy Commissioner 1913; Commissioner of Police, Calcutta 1923-31.
Memoir: Charles Tegart: Memoir of an Indian Policeman. by Lady K.F. Tegart (wife).
316pp. http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/memoirs.html

There were, though, occasional excitements. One day Jenkins's filing clerk came in with the news of an attempt on the life of Sir Charles Tegart, in Dalhousie Square. The would-be assassin had tried to throw a bomb into Tegart's open car, but dropped it. "Sir Tegart rose up and pistolled him," the clerk reported. "His guts were all over the road." http://www.edunltd.com/empire/biography/jenkinsowain.htm

TEGARTS
On 21st. October, 1938, Sir Charles Tegart, K.C.I.E., M.V.O., arrived in Palestine to advise the Inspector General on matters of security. In due course he advised the construction of a large number of reinforced concrete police stations and posts which could be defended against attack and the construction of a Frontier fence along the northern border to control the movement of insurgents, goods and weapons.
His recommendations were accepted and something like fifty new Police forts or "Tegarts" as they came to be known were built throughout Palestine. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/palestinepolice/phistory.htm

TERRORISM IN INDIA
Pub. by New Age Publishers Private Ltd., Calcutta-73,
PUBLISHERS NOTE, pg iii:
"Sir Tegart joined the Indian Police Services in 1901 and served almost continously in Bengal for a period of thirty years until he was appointed a member of the Secretary of State's Indian Council in December, 1931. For the last eight years of his service in India he was Commissioner of Police, Calcutta."
"As an efficient British officer Charles Tegart certainly was possessed of a detailed survey of the entire Terrorist movement in India, details of which might not be available to any other individual."
SPEECH BY LORD LYTTON pg.50:
"Sir Charles Tegart is one of the greatest police officers in the world, but he is also the most modest and the most self-effacing of great men that it has ever been my privilege to come across. He has paid a well deserved tribute to the police force of Bengal and that of the city Calcutta over which he presided but let me till you what he could not tell you himself, that if the Secret Intelligence Departmant of Bengal is efficient, it is because Sir Carles Tegart has made it so: it is because through years of careful building up he has made it the extremely efficient force which it has proved itself to be. If those men have shown a high standard of courage, it is because he himself has set it, because for some 16 years he has carried his life in his hands, and has never shown a trace of the anxiety which you would expect to follow from that. Encouraged by the magnificent example of courage which he himself has set, all those who have served him have done so with unflinching loyalty."

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