Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet
(1833–1917)
- A. Spokes Symonds
- , revised by Katherine Prior
Extract
Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet (1833–1917), developer of fingerprinting and judge, was born on 9 January 1833, probably in Slough, the eldest child of the three sons and nine daughters of Sir John Herschel, first baronet (1792–1871), astronomer and chemist, and his wife, ...
