Colquhoun, PATRICK

Colquhoun, PATRICK, born at Dumbarton, 14th March 1745, became provost of Glasgow in 1782, went to London in 1789, and in 1792 became a police-magistrate there. He was indefatigable in forwarding administrative legislation, educational and commercial reforms, wrote innumerable pamphlets, and published two important works—Police of the Metropolis (1795); and Population, Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire (1814). He died 25th April 1820.