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<math> \ell = \sqrt{10^2 - \left(\frac{13}{2}\right)^2} = 7.6m

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-Colonel '''Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent''' [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] ([[31 May]] [[1849]] &ndash; [[7 April]] [[1908]]), known as '''Howard Vincent''' or '''C. E. Howard Vincent''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] [[Member of Parliament]], [[barrister]] and [[police]] official.
+:<math> \ell = \sqrt{10^2 - \left(\frac{13}{2}\right)^2} = 7.6m
-Vincent was born in [[Slinfold]], [[Sussex]], the second son of [[Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet]], the village's [[rector]]. His brothers included [[Sir William Vincent, 12th Baronet]], [[Claude Vincent]], who became an administrator in [[India]], and the financier and diplomat [[Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon]].
-He was educated at [[Westminster School]] and in November 1866 entered the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Passing out in 1868, he [[Sale of commissions|purchased a commission]] in the [[23rd Foot]] (later the [[Royal Welch Fusiliers]]).<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=23402|startpage=4063|date=[[21 July]] [[1868]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> He was promoted [[Lieutenant]] in 1871.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=23812|startpage=5868|endpage=5870|date=[[29 December]] [[1871]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=23876|startpage=3197|endpage=3199|date=[[16 July]] [[1872]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> In 1871, he served as a correspondent with the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' in [[Berlin]] and then went on to [[Russia]] to learn the language and study the country's military organisation. In 1872 he began to write articles and lecture at the [[Royal United Services Institution]]. After his regiment was posted to [[Ireland]] later that year, he began to address political meetings on the [[Irish question]], expressing generally [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] views. In 1873, he resigned his commission.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=23995|startpage=3200|date=[[4 July]] [[1873]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref>
-On [[3 May]] [[1873]], Vincent enrolled as a student [[barrister]] at the [[Inner Temple]]. In that and the following year he travelled to [[Turkey]] and again to Russia, learning [[Turkish language|Turkish]] (to add to [[Russian language|Russian]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], which he already knew). He also became an expert on the politics of the [[Near East]]. In 1874, he was commissioned into the [[Royal Berkshire Militia]] as a [[Captain]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=24033|startpage=4906|date=[[11 November]] [[1873]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> He resigned his commission in November 1875,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=24264|startpage=5306|date=[[9 November]] [[1875]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> but a month later was appointed [[Lieutenant-Colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] commanding the 40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (Central London Rangers),<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=24274|startpage=6355|date=[[10 December]] [[1875]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> again resigning his commission in 1878.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=24581|startpage=3048|date=[[14 May]] [[1878]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> He continued to write on political and military matters.
-He was [[called to the bar]] on [[20 January]] [[1876]] and joined the South-Eastern [[Circuit]] in the [[Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division]], although he never really devoted himself to the law. On the outbreak of the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War]] in 1877, the ''Daily Telegraph'' sent him to report on the [[Russian Army]], but he was refused permission to accompany the army into the field, as the Russians were suspicious that he spoke Russian and suspected him of being a Turkish sympathiser.
-In 1877 he enrolled as a student at the [[Faculté de Droit]] in [[Paris]] and investigated the [[Prefecture of Police|Parisian police]]. When, later that year, the Metropolitan Police Detective Department was hit by a scandal in which several senior officers were dismissed, Vincent was asked to report on the Paris detective system. This so impressed [[R. A. Cross]], the [[Home Secretary]], that in 1878 he was appointed to the new post of Director of Criminal Intelligence to head the department. Although without the official status of [[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|Assistant Commissioner]], this post was equivalent to the two Assistant Commissioners in almost every way. Vincent completely reorganised the department. From 1883 he also edited the ''[[Police Gazette]]''.
-In 1884, however, realising that his police post offered little chance of further advancement, he resigned to enter politics. That year he was also appointed [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] commanding the [[Queen's Westminsters|Queen's Westminster Volunteers]],<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=25322|startpage=970|date=[[26 February]] [[1884]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> holding the post for twenty years until 1904. He was rewarded for his police service by being appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in 1885. He went on a world tour, in which he was so impressed with the effects of [[British Empire|imperialism]] that he decided to stand for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] (although he had previously tended towards Liberalism). At the [[United Kingdom general election, 1885|general election in November 1885]] he defeated [[Samuel Plimsoll]] to win the constituency of [[Sheffield Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Sheffield Central]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=25541|startpage=6137|date=[[18 December]] [[1885]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> He remained in Parliament until his death, being returned unopposed in 1889 and 1900, although he had to win the elections of 1886, 1892 and 1906. He also served on [[London County Council]] from 1889 to 1906. He was chairman of the [[National Union of Conservative Associations]] from 1895, chairman of the Conservative Party Publication Committee from 1896, and vice-chairman of the [[Primrose League]] from 1901. He founded the [[United Empire Trade League]] in 1891 and served as its honorary secretary until his death. In 1898 he was appointed to the [[Royal Commission]] organising the [[United Kingdom]]'s participation in the [[Paris Exhibition of 1900]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=26936|startpage=762|endpage=765|date=[[8 February]] [[1898]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> In 1901 he chaired an inquiry into the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] and the [[Dublin Metropolitan Police]]. He was appointed a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of the [[County of London]] in 1889<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=25928|startpage=2339|date=[[26 April]] [[1889]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> and was granted the honorary rank of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] in 1894.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=26563|startpage=5933|date=[[23 October]] [[1894]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref>
-Vincent was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1896<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=26706|startpage=645|date=[[4 February]] [[1896]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> and appointed [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1898 for his service as British delegate to a conference on [[anarchist]]s in [[Rome]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27091|startpage=3865|date=[[20 June]] [[1899]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> He was selected to command the infantry of the [[City Imperial Volunteers]] in the [[Second Boer War]], but was eventually refused permission to go due to a heart problem. He went in a private capacity anyway, however. He was awarded the [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration]],<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27378|startpage=7471|date=[[19 November]] [[1901]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref> and appointed [[Aide-de-Camp]] to the King, and Colonel in the [[Volunteer Force]] in 1901.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27324|startpage=4099|endpage=4100|date=[[18 June]] [[1901]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref>  He resigned his commission for the final time in 1904, retaining his rank.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27663|startpage=2117|date=[[1 April]] [[1904]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref>  He retained his Parliamentary seat until his death on [[7 April]] [[1908]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=25609|startpage=3501|date=[[20 July]] [[1886]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=26311|startpage=4310|date=[[29 July]] [[1892]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=26651|startpage=4484|date=[[9 August]] [[1895]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27244|startpage=6773|date=[[6 November]] [[1900]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=27885|startpage=1045|date=[[13 February]] [[1906]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=28131|startpage=3078|date=[[24 April]] [[1908]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=28144|startpage=4276|date=[[9 June]] [[1908]]|accessdate=2008-02-11}}</ref>
-==References==
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-*[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~exy1/fh_material/Making_of_Sheffield/4-POLITICS.TXT The Storm of Politics]
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-  | years  = [[United Kingdom general election, 1885|1885]]&ndash;1908
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-  | after  = [[James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour|James Fitzalan Hope]]
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