VINCENT, SIR (CHARLES EDWARD) HOWARD, brother of Arthur Frederick Vincent (qv); b. 31 May 1849; adm. 26 May 1864 (G); left Aug 1865; RMC Sandhurst Nov 1866; Ensign, 23rd Foot 22 Jul 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; ret. Aug 1873; Special Correspondent, Daily Telegraph, at Berlin in 1871 and during Russian-Turkish War 1876; adm. Inner Temple 3 May 1873, called to bar 26 Jan 1876; South-Eastern Circuit; Director of Criminal Investigations, Metropolitan Police 1878-84; Col. -Commandant, Queenís Westminster Volunteers 1884-1904, later Hon. Col., VD; MP (Conservative) Sheffield Central from 1885; member, Metropolitan Board of Works 1888-9, London County Council 1889-96; one of the British delegates to Anti-Anarchist Conference, Rome 1898; ADC to Edward VII from 1901; CB 23 Jan 1886; knighted 17 Jan 1896; KCMG 3 Jun 1899; DL JP Co. London, JP Middlesex, Berkshire; a consistent advocate of imperial protection, founding in 1891 the United Empire Trade League, of which he was Hon. Secretary; Chairman, National Union of Conservative Associations 1895; the Acts of Parliament dealing with the probation of first offenders, 1887, and for the appointment of a public trustee, 1906, were mainly due to his persistence; author, A Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law, 1882, and other works; m. 26 Oct 1882 Ethel Gwendoline, second dau. of George Moffatt MP, Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; d. at Menton, France 7 Apr 1908. DNB.