Coatman, J.

1910 joined Indian Police Service; 1914-1919 Frontier Constabulary; 1916 King's Police Medal; 1919 served in Third Anglo-Afghan War; 1920 served on Hazara Frontier; 1921 Bar to King's Police Medal; 1926 Director of Public Information, Government of India; 1926-1930 Member of Indian Legislative Assembly; 1927-1928 Member of Indian Cinematograph Enquiry Committee; 1930-1932 Secretary to Liberal Parliamentary Delegation to the Round Table Conference; 1930-1934 Professor of Imperial Economic Relations, University of London; 1934-1937 Chief News Editor of the BBC; 1937-1949 North Regional Controller of the BBC; 1941-1945 Chairman of Convocation, Manchester University; 1949–1954 Director of Research in the Social Sciences, St Andrews University.

Epithet: police officer, civil servant in India, economist and journalist

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