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Wilfred Trubshaw
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(15 June 1870 – 21 December 1944) was a British solicitor and
police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
officer who served as Chief Constable of Lancashire County Constabulary from 1927 to 1935. Trubshaw was born in
Mold, Flintshire Mold ( cy, Yr Wyddgrug) is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the county town and administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, as it was of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996. According to the 2011 UK Census, it had a ...
, Wales, the eldest son of surgeon Alfred Trubshaw, and came from a wealthy Staffordshire family. He was Assistant Solicitor to Lancashire County Council until 1915, when he joined Lancashire County Constabulary as Deputy Chief Constable. He was promoted to Assistant Chief Constable in 1917 and was appointed Chief Constable on 5 May 1927. He retired on 31 August 1935 due to problems with his
eyesight Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflect ...
. Trubshaw was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours and
Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
(CBE) in the 1931 Birthday Honours. He married Bessie André Perkins, a writer of short stories, in Wales in 1904. He died in Pwllheli,
Caernarfonshire , HQ= County Hall, Caernarfon , Map= , Image= Flag , Motto= Cadernid Gwynedd (The strength of Gwynedd) , year_start= , Arms= ''Coat of arms of Caerna ...
, Wales, aged 74.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''


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1870 births 1944 deaths People from Mold, Flintshire British Chief Constables British solicitors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-law-enforcement-bio-stub