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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roderick Ross CVO
CBE KPM (24 May 1865-6 March 1943) was Chief Constable of Edinburgh City
Police from 1900 to 1935. Ross was born in West Helmsdale in the parish
of Kildonan, Sutherland, the son of a crofter. His namesake his
grandfather, a Chelsea Pensioner, had been evicted out of Kildonan
during the Highland Clearances. He first served in the Canterbury City
Police. By 1891 he was a Sergeant and had married in the same year a
local girl, Elizabeth Mills, the daughter of a fruit merchant and past
licensed victualler.