Chief Constable of the Lothians and Peebles Constabulary
Awards
OBE, QPM
William Merrilees OBE QPM (24 September 1898 – 21 August 1984) was Chief Constable of the Lothians and Peebles Constabulary from 1950 to 1968.
Merrilees is one of Scotland's best known policemen, thanks to a flamboyant career involving disguise, celebrated court cases, and continual charity work. Known as "the pocket-sized detective with a battleship reputation," he was featured in the youth comic book Valiant, and painted twice by Henry Raeburn Dobson. In November 1959 he appeared on This is your Life, hosted by Eamonn Andrews, and in 1966, his memoirs "The Short Arm of the Law" were published by John Long of London.[citation needed]
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frame. Count Wenceslas had met Merrilees in the 1960s in Brussels and when talking about Scotland realised Merrilees was friendly with Raeburn. The thank-you...
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Dictionarius. Dictionnaire latin-français de Firmin Le Ver, édité par Brian Merrilees et William Edwards. Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 75(3), pp. 849-853...
his companion Dominie Sampson, a failed minister. Ch. 3: The gipsy Meg Merrilees arrives for the birth of Ellangowan's heir, and Guy contemplates the stars...
Classical Journal, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Apr. – May 1988), pp. 315-22. Short, Ian; Merrilees, Brian, eds. (1979). The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan. Manchester:...
Merrilees has picked his pocket. The police search Merrilees and find the emerald, which James secreted there. James is in turn accused by Merrilees but...
daytime cookery show on the ITV Network. The judges are Henrietta Green, William Sitwell and Richard Johnson. Nick Hancock is the host of the show, which...
drummer Gene Chrisman, recorded the Box Tops ("Soul Deep"), Bobby Womack, Merrilee Rush, Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders), Sandy Posey (notably...
including Alexander Handyside Ritchie, John Rhind, William Birnie Rhind, William Brodie, William Grant Stevenson, David Watson Stevenson, John Hutchison...
D.C. in the 1860s, she often stayed at the home of Secretary of State William Seward, with whom she was very close friends. In July 1861, Seward introduced...
The figure of Edie Ochiltree attracted particular praise, recalling Meg Merrilees from Guy Mannering but in a more natural mode. Oldbuck was also generally...
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