Roderick Ross
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Roderick Ross
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Roderick Ross CVO CBE KPM 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 from Kildonan during the Highland Clearances. Aged 16 he was apprenticed to a Helmsdale tailor, but soon moved to Edinburgh where he was employed by Sir Andrew McDonald, an eminent clothier and later Lord Provost from 1894 to 1897. On coming of age
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