Deputy Inspector-General of Police John Thurlow Rivett-Carnac was born in April 1856 and educated at Winchester and Rugby. Joining the Bengal Police in November 1874, he enjoyed a long and successful career that led him to the pinnacle of his profession by January 1909, with his appointment as a Deputy Inspector-General at Cachar. During that period he was twice detached for 'special duty', namely in the Burma operations of 1885-87, when he was the Personal Assistant to the Inspector-General of Police in Upper Burma, and again in January 1890, when ordered to join the Lushai Expeditionary Force from his current appointment as a Commandant, Military Police in the Garo Hills. Rivett-Carnac, the son of a Baronet who was a Judge stationed at Dacca in the Indian Mutiny, and the grandson of a Governor of Bombay, retired just prior to the Great War and died in 1948.