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Bernard Spilsbury
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'''Sir Bernard Spilsbury''' (
1877-
1947) was a famous
United Kingdom British pathologist. His cases include the
Brides in the bath murders Brides in the Bath Murders, the
Dr Crippen case,
Brighton trunk murders,
Podmore Case and
The Vera Page Case.
Bernard Spilsbury was born in
Leamington Hastings,
Warwickshire in 1877. He was educated at
Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College,
Oxford and
St Mary's Hospital (London) St Mary's Hospital in
London. He specialized in then-new science of forensic pathology. The case that lifted Spilsbury to prominence was that of Dr Crippen in 1910, where he also gave forensic evidence in a trial.
During his career Spilsbury performed thousands of
autopsy autopsies, not only for murder victims but also of executed criminals. He was able to appear for the defence in Scotland, where his status as a police pathologist in England and Wales did not matter. Spilsbury was
Order of the British Empire knighted 1923. He also become a honorary Pathologist in
Home Office, Lecturer in Forensic Medicine in the
University College Hospital,
London School of Medicine for Women and
St. Thomas' Hospital. He also was a Fellow of
Royal Society of Medicine.
Spilsbury's two sons died during
World War II.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury committed
suicide by gas in
1947.
In recent years, his dogmatic manner and his unbending belief in his own infallability gave rise to criticism; even in the later years of his life, judges began to express concern about his invincibility in court and recent researches have indicated that his inflexible dogmatism led to miscarraiges of justice.
References
* Douglas Browne and E. V. Tullett - ''Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases'' (1951)
* Colin Evans - ''the Father of Forensics''
* J.H.H. Gaute and Robin Odell - ''The New Murderer's Who's Who'', 1996, Harrap Books, London
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