Reginald Michelin

Reginald Townend Michelin (born December 31, 1903 in Morant Bay , Saint Thomas Parish , Jamaica , † September 22, 1998 in Saint James Parish , Jamaica), was a Jamaican colonel and police officer in the British Colonial Police Service . In his last two uses, he was chief of police (Police Commissioner) of Barbados and then of Jamaica.

Life

He was a son of the settler Victor Alfred Michelin and his wife Mary Alice, b. Townend. From 1919 to 1922 he attended Exeter School in England.

Michelin became Sub- Inspector of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Police, Jamaica in 1924 . In 1928 he was transferred to the British Leeward Islands and received a post as inspector with the British Leeward Islands Police . In 1930 he was in the Nigeria Police Force of Nigeria Assistant Commissioner of Police.

His first post as police chief with the rank of Commissioner of Police he got in 1949 with the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF). In the same role was then police chief of the JCF in his home country from 1953 until his retirement in 1958.

After retirement, he was general manager of Agualta Vale, an estate in Saint Mary Parish , until 1964 , and then worked on the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) of the Ministry of Tourism and Leisure from 1964 to 1973 .

The marriage entered into in 1940 with Nina Gladys Faulkner, nee Faulkner (1916–2004) resulted in a son and a daughter. His body is buried in the cemetery of the Saint Mark Anglican Church in Rio Bueno , a settlement in Trelawny Parish .

Awards

1952: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1953: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
1957: Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Col Reginald Townend Michelin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
↑ Michelin, Reginald Townend In: Who's who Jamaica, British West Indies. Kingston 1954. Retrieved from the British Biographical Archive, Part 3, p. 357.
^ Memoir of RT Michelin , Commonwealth and African Studies, Bodleian Library.

personal data
SURNAME	Michelin, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Michelin, Reginald Townend (full name); Michelin, Reginald T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jamaican staff officer, police officer, and chief of police
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Morant Bay , Saint Thomas Parish , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1998
Place of death	Saint James Parish , Jamaica

[findagrave.com-1] Col Reginald Townend Michelin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 15, 2017.

[2] Michelin, Reginald Townend In: Who's who Jamaica, British West Indies. Kingston 1954. Retrieved from the British Biographical Archive, Part 3, p. 357.

[3] Memoir of RT Michelin , Commonwealth and African Studies, Bodleian Library.