Herschel, William James
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Herschel, William James
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Herschel, William James, Sir, 1833-1917.
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Herschel, William James, 1833-
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Herschel, William James, Sir, Bart, 1833-1917.
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Herschel, William James, Sir, 1833-1917, 2nd Baronet, Bengal civil servant
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Herschel, William James, Sir, 1833-1917, 2nd Baronet, Bengal civil servant
Herschel, William James 1833-1917
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William Herschel (1833-1917) was educated at Clapham Grammar School and the East India Company's college at Haileybury. His later career took him to India, where, as a magistrate in Hooghly, he instituted the first known system of fingerprinting in 1877-8.
1866-1871 magistrate of Midnapore; 1871-1872 district judge of Dinajpur; 1872-1874 district judge of Nadia; 1874-1875 commissioner of Cooch Behar; 1875-1877 magistrate of Shahabad; 1872-1878 magistrate of Hooghly; 1895-1904 member of Oxfordshire county council
Epithet: Bengal civil servant
Title: 2nd Baronet
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Chota Nagpur, Bihar
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Cooch Behar State, India
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Midnapore, Bengal
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Dacca, India
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