GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
Major Daniell proceeded to Hyderabad to interview the British President and the Minister of the Nizam’s Government, and leaving Hyderabad at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning, he travelled by rail till 5.30 p.m., when, accompanied by an English Inspector and two native Constables, Major Daniell obtained a guide, and walked throughout the night to the village where he hoped to find the Brahmin. The Major reached the village at 7.30 on the following morning, after a hard night’s tramp of 26 miles over a rough country, with deep, moist, adhesive soil. Finding the object of his search had left the village 24 hours earlier, Major Daniell, who was now joined by a native Officer of high position in the Nizam’s service, and by a body of cavalry, selected seven Officers and men, and despatching horses across the stream which ran by the village, he entered the river, now a swirling torrent half a mile wide, with some empty gourds tied round his body, and, thus supported, and surrounded by men of his party who prevented his being carried away by the torrent, he reached the opposite shore, a mile below the spot whence he had started. Major Daniell and his small party, starting from this river about 4 p.m. on the Monday, traced the Brahmin and a companion from village to village until two or three o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, when Major Daniell entered an old deserted temple, and came upon the objects of his quest. The apprehension of this Brahmin at once put an end to any idea of a serious rising; but the Major had to do seven months’ arduous work in quelling the disturbances which had arisen in consequence of the Brahmin’s action. The sum of £400 was made over by the Government for distribution among the officers and men who had participated in this arrest. The regulations of the Government of India do not permit of the participation in pecuniary rewards by any commissioned Officer. Major Daniell again received the high commendation of the Government of Bombay, the Government of India, and the Secretary of State for his services on this occasion. The late Earl of Lytton was Viceroy of India at the time, and, having written to the Governor of Bombay, asking him if the disturbances in the Presidency could be quelled without extraneous aid, received a reply from Sir Richard Temple, Governor of Bombay, to the effect that the matter might be well left as it was in the hands of the best Police Officer he had ever met with. The Government of India directed that Major Daniell should be considered to have held the special rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police for the Bombay Presidency during the period of his splendid services in connection with the suppression of this rising.
Early in 1880 Major Daniell returned to England on leave, and in October of the same year was elected Chief Constable of Hertford, and retired from the Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 1887 Colonel Daniell was selected by her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department to organise and command the Special Constables of the Metropolitan, sworn in for the purpose of assisting the Police in the suppression of what are known as the Trafalgar – square disturbances in November of that year. Receiving his appointment and instructions from the Home Secretary on a Wednesday, Colonel Daniell effected the organisation to such purpose that, on the following Sunday, out of 13,000 Special Constables sworn in, 8,000 were on duty in detached bodies in various parts of the Metropolis and of the City of London, each body commanded and controlled by officers of distinction and experience, Colonel Daniell has often said that the work of those four days, from the Wednesday to the Saturday evening, was the most arduous he ever went through. For his services in this connection, he, and the superior Officers under his command, received the high commendation of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and of her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Colonel Daniell stands 6ft. 2in. high, and is a well-proportioned man. He married in 1869 the daughter of the late Lieutenant-General C. M. Barrow, C.B., and has two children – a son and a daughter. He is decorated with two medals and clasps.’
Henry Daniell, recognised as Hertfordshire’s most successful Chief Constable, retired in 1911 and was awarded the King’s Police Medal on 1 January 1912.
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