Sir John FitzGerald Moylan CB

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(16 June 1882 – 15 June 1967) was a senior British civil servant and author. Moylan was educated at

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and at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

. He served as

Receiver of the Metropolitan Police The Receiver, formally called The Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District (and sometimes referred to early in the post's existence as the Receiver-General), was until 2000 the chief financial officer of the Metropolitan Police in London, the ...

between 1919 and 1942, and

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at the Home Office between 1940 and 1945. He was the author of ''Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police'', published in 1929, and ''The Police of Britain'', published in 1946. Moylan was

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in the

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. He died on 15 June 1967.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moylan, John 1882 births 1967 deaths People educated at Bedford School Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Companions of the Order of the Bath Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Receivers of the Metropolitan Police Civil servants in the Home Office Knights Bachelor