ABSTRACT
In making the change from army to county police force, it is certain that John Pearman experienced an improvement in pay and working conditions. He had little to say in fact, about the working conditions of police life, but what little he does mention emphasises a relative degree of ease and comfort in the years after 1857 – the ‘nice home &…good Garden’ at Great Marlow [‘Memoir’, p. 157], the people who made few demands on his time at Eton. [‘Memoir’, pp. 214–15] He represented police work as an improvement in the material conditions of life.
