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Charles Warren

1840–1927 · 19th century

Sir Charles Warren was a British army officer and archaeologist. He surveyed Jerusalem in the 1860s, and in 1884–1885 led an expedition that ended the Boer republics of Stellaland and Goshen and secured British Bechuanaland. As Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1886 to 1888 he faced the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.

Charles Warren
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