Search Results

Sign In Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Format

Type

Articles containing

Sex

Life event

Date

Occupations

Religious Affiliation

Availability

 1-4 of 4 Results  for:

  • Medicine and health x
  • Law and crime x
  • scientist (general) x
Clear all

Image

Cover Faulds, Henry (1843–1930)

Faulds, Henry (1843–1930)  

Maker: unknown photographer

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Henry Faulds (1843–1930) by unknown photographer, pubd 1923 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Faulds, Henry (1843–1930), general practitioner and developer of fingerprinting  

Alex Paton

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Faulds, Henry (1843–1930), general practitioner and developer of fingerprinting, was born on 1 June 1843 at Beith, Ayrshire, the son of William Pollock Faulds, an impoverished grocer, and his wife, Anne Cameron. Both sides of his family were of Scottish descent. After school at ...

Image

Cover Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet (1833–1917)

Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet (1833–1917)  

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Sir William James Herschel, second baronet (1833–1917) by unknown photographer private collection; photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet (1833–1917), developer of fingerprinting and judge  

A. Spokes Symonds

revised by Katherine Prior

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

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, ...