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	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Henry Cecil Prescott was born in Cheshire on 1 March 1882, the son of Arthur Edward Prescott (who had died at the time of the 1891 census) and Kathleen Ann Augusta Prescott.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk\|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk\|work=ancestry.co.uk\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last=Ranieval \|first=The Marquis of Ruvigny and \|title=[[The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal]]: The Mortimer-Percy Volume\|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA89 89]\|date=1 May 2013\|publisher=Heritage Books\|isbn=978-0-7884-1872-3}}</ref> He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]].<ref name="WW1935" />		Henry Cecil Prescott was born in Cheshire on 1 March 1882, the son of Arthur Edward Prescott (who had died at the time of the 1891 census) and Kathleen Ann Augusta Prescott.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk\|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk\|work=ancestry.co.uk\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last=Ranieval \|first=The Marquis of Ruvigny and \|title=[[The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal]]: The Mortimer-Percy Volume\|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA89 89]\|date=1 May 2013\|publisher=Heritage Books\|isbn=978-0-7884-1872-3}}</ref> He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]].<ref name="WW1935" />

	==Career==		==Career==
	Prescott was commissioned in the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)\|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers]], and served as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)\|lieutenant]] in the [[Second Boer War]] (1901–02), for which he received the [[Queen's South Africa Medal\|Queen's Medal]] with five [[Medal bar\|clasps]].<ref name="WW1935" /> While in South Africa, he received a commission in a regular regiment when he was appointed [[second lieutenant]] in [[The South Wales Borderers]] on 30 April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=27429 \|pages=2862–2863 \|date=29 April 1902}}</ref> He stayed there for several months after the end of hostilities, returning home again on the SS ''Norman'' in late December 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home\|date=25 December 1902 \|page=6 \|issue=36960}}</ref> In 1903 he transferred to the [[Indian Army]] in the 69th Punjabis<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Harts-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Imperial-Yeomanry-List-1907/994676/823\|title=Harts Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, 1907\|work=Mocavo\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref> until his appointment as Assistant Superintendent in the [[Myanmar Police Force\|Burma Police]] in January 1908.<ref name="google.co.uk">{{cite web\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+cecil+prescott+iraq\|title=The India Office and Burma Office List\|work=google.co.uk\|year=1928\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref> In December 1910 he was made District Superintendent of three districts in [[Burma]].<ref name="google.co.uk"/>		Prescott was commissioned in the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)\|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers]], and served as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)\|lieutenant]] in the [[Second Boer War]] (1901–02), for which he received the [[Queen's South Africa Medal\|Queen's Medal]] with five [[Medal bar\|clasps]].<ref name="WW1935" /> While in South Africa, he received a commission in a regular regiment when he was appointed [[second lieutenant]] in [[The South Wales Borderers]] on 30 April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette\| issue=27429 \|pages=2862–2863 \|date=29 April 1902}}</ref> He stayed there for several months after the end of hostilities, returning home again on the SS ''Norman'' in late December 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home\|date=25 December 1902 \|page=6 \|issue=36960}}</ref> In 1903 he transferred to the [[Indian Army]] in the 69th Punjabis<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Harts-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Imperial-Yeomanry-List-1907/994676/823\|title=Harts Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, 1907\|work=Mocavo\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref> until his appointment as Assistant Superintendent in the [[Myanmar Police Force\|Burma Police]] in January 1908.<ref name="google.co.uk">{{cite web\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+cecil+prescott+iraq\|title=The India Office and Burma Office List\|work=google.co.uk\|year=1928\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref> In December 1910 he was made District Superintendent of three districts in [[Burma]].<ref name="google.co.uk"/>

	At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Prescott rejoined the [[Indian Army]]; he was promoted Major in August 1916.<ref name="dnw.co.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250\|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb\|work=dnw.co.uk\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref> In June 1917 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the [[Iraq Police]] firstly in [[Basra]] and then in [[Baghdad]].<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1918 he was made Commissioner.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1920, Prescott was made Inspector-General of the [[Iraq Police]] until his resignation in 1935.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241967\|title=PRESCOTT, Henry Cecil (1882–1960), Chief of Police, retired, Southern Railway; Indian Army, retired, 1928\|work=oup.com\|date=December 2007\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref> In a statement of service, he later wrote, ‘If it had not been for the seizing of power by the opposition (many of the leaders of whom I had arrested and placed in prison for the safety of the country) I should have remained in command for some years longer’.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/>		At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Prescott rejoined the [[Indian Army]]; he was promoted Major in August 1916.<ref name="dnw.co.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250\|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb\|work=dnw.co.uk\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref> In June 1917 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the [[Iraq Police]] firstly in [[Basra]] and then in [[Baghdad]].<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1918 he was made Commissioner.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1920, Prescott was made Inspector-General of the [[Iraq Police]] until his resignation in 1935.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241967\|title=PRESCOTT, Henry Cecil (1882–1960), Chief of Police, retired, Southern Railway; Indian Army, retired, 1928\|work=oup.com\|date=December 2007\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref> In a statement of service, he later wrote, ‘If it had not been for the seizing of power by the opposition (many of the leaders of whom I had arrested and placed in prison for the safety of the country) I should have remained in command for some years longer’.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/>

	Prescott was later made Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in [[India]] for 12 years until his retirement in 1947.<ref name="auto"/>		Prescott was later made Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in [[India]] for 12 years until his retirement in 1947.<ref name="auto"/>

	==Awards and honours==		==Awards and honours==
	During [[World War I]] he was [[Mentioned in dispatches\|mentioned in despatches]] and made a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1919.<ref name="WW1935" /> In 1926 he was made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG), and towards the end of his service in [[Iraq]] he received the [[Order of the Two Rivers]] 2nd Class.<ref name="WW1935" /> A collection of his medals were sold at auction on 2 March 2005.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250\|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb\|work=dnw.co.uk\|accessdate=29 January ~~2022~~}}</ref>		During [[World War I]] he was [[Mentioned in dispatches\|mentioned in despatches]] and made a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1919.<ref name="WW1935" /> In 1926 he was made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG), and towards the end of his service in [[Iraq]] he received the [[Order of the Two Rivers]] 2nd Class.<ref name="WW1935" /> A collection of his medals were sold at auction on 2 March 2005.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250\|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb\|work=dnw.co.uk\|accessdate=29 January 2015}}</ref>

	==Family life==		==Family life==
	A keen [[polo]] player, Prescott was in the championship team of [[Iraq]] for 1933, 1934 and 1935.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> He married Mary Augusta, daughter of Edward Chisholm.<ref name="auto"/> They had two sons, one of whom was killed on active service in 1939.<ref name="auto"/> Prescott eventually retired to [[Saint Peter, Jersey\|St. Peter's, Jersey]] where he died on 3 August 1960.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://remote.jerseyheritage.org/Details/archive/110164802\|title=Jersey Heritage – Details\|work=jerseyheritage.org\|accessdate=3 July ~~2022~~}}</ref><ref>''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014</ref>		A keen [[polo]] player, Prescott was in the championship team of [[Iraq]] for 1933, 1934 and 1935.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> He married Mary Augusta, daughter of Edward Chisholm.<ref name="auto"/> They had two sons, one of whom was killed on active service in 1939.<ref name="auto"/> Prescott eventually retired to [[Saint Peter, Jersey\|St. Peter's, Jersey]] where he died on 3 August 1960.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://remote.jerseyheritage.org/Details/archive/110164802\|title=Jersey Heritage – Details\|work=jerseyheritage.org\|accessdate=3 July 2015}}</ref><ref>''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Henry Cecil Prescott''' [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (1 March 1882 – 3 August 1960) was Inspector-General of Police in [[Iraq]] (1920–1935) and Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in [[India]] (1935–47).<ref name="auto">Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', ''Lt.-Col. H. C. Prescott'', 5 August 1960, p.12</ref><ref name=WW1935>{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-241967|title=Prescott, Lieut-Col Henry Cecil, (1882–3 Aug. 1960), Chief of Police, retired, Southern Railway; Indian Army, retired, 1928|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241967|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref>

==Early life==
Henry Cecil Prescott was born in Cheshire on 1 March 1882, the son of Arthur Edward Prescott (who had died at the time of the 1891 census) and Kathleen Ann Augusta Prescott.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk|work=ancestry.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ranieval |first=The Marquis of Ruvigny and |title=[[The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal]]: The Mortimer-Percy Volume|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA89 89]|date=1 May 2013|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-1872-3}}</ref> He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]].<ref name="WW1935" />

==Career==
Prescott was commissioned in the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers]], and served as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the [[Second Boer War]] (1901–02), for which he received the [[Queen's South Africa Medal|Queen's Medal]] with five [[Medal bar|clasps]].<ref name="WW1935" /> While in South Africa, he received a commission in a regular regiment when he was appointed [[second lieutenant]] in [[The South Wales Borderers]] on 30 April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27429 |pages=2862–2863 |date=29 April 1902}}</ref> He stayed there for several months after the end of hostilities, returning home again on the SS ''Norman'' in late December 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home|date=25 December 1902 |page=6 |issue=36960}}</ref> In 1903 he transferred to the [[Indian Army]] in the 69th Punjabis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Harts-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Imperial-Yeomanry-List-1907/994676/823|title=Harts Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, 1907|work=Mocavo|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref> until his appointment as Assistant Superintendent in the [[Myanmar Police Force|Burma Police]] in January 1908.<ref name="google.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+cecil+prescott+iraq|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|work=google.co.uk|year=1928|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref> In December 1910 he was made District Superintendent of three districts in [[Burma]].<ref name="google.co.uk"/>

At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Prescott rejoined the [[Indian Army]]; he was promoted Major in August 1916.<ref name="dnw.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb|work=dnw.co.uk|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref> In June 1917 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the [[Iraq Police]] firstly in [[Basra]] and then in [[Baghdad]].<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1918 he was made Commissioner.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> In 1920, Prescott was made Inspector-General of the [[Iraq Police]] until his resignation in 1935.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241967|title=PRESCOTT, Henry Cecil (1882–1960), Chief of Police, retired, Southern Railway; Indian Army, retired, 1928|work=oup.com|date=December 2007|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref> In a statement of service, he later wrote, ‘If it had not been for the seizing of power by the opposition (many of the leaders of whom I had arrested and placed in prison for the safety of the country) I should have remained in command for some years longer’.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/>

Prescott was later made Chief of Police of the Southern Railway in [[India]] for 12 years until his retirement in 1947.<ref name="auto"/>

==Awards and honours==
During [[World War I]] he was [[Mentioned in dispatches|mentioned in despatches]] and made a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1919.<ref name="WW1935" /> In 1926 he was made a Companion of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG), and towards the end of his service in [[Iraq]] he received the [[Order of the Two Rivers]] 2nd Class.<ref name="WW1935" /> A collection of his medals were sold at auction on 2 March 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=70&lot_id=46250|title=Lot 984, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to incl... (2 March 2005) – Dix Noonan Webb|work=dnw.co.uk|accessdate=29 January 2022}}</ref>

==Family life==
A keen [[polo]] player, Prescott was in the championship team of [[Iraq]] for 1933, 1934 and 1935.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/> He married Mary Augusta, daughter of Edward Chisholm.<ref name="auto"/> They had two sons, one of whom was killed on active service in 1939.<ref name="auto"/> Prescott eventually retired to [[Saint Peter, Jersey|St. Peter's, Jersey]] where he died on 3 August 1960.<ref name="dnw.co.uk"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://remote.jerseyheritage.org/Details/archive/110164802|title=Jersey Heritage – Details|work=jerseyheritage.org|accessdate=3 July 2022}}</ref><ref>''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014</ref>

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