Herschel, William James
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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.
From the description of Professor Empson's lectures on moral philosophy and law, 1851-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179091
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
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000228
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Subjects:
- Contracts
- Criminal law
- Ethics
- Evidence (Law)
- Fingerprints
- Fingerprints
- Law
- Legal ethics
- Procedure (Law)
- Fingerprints
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Places:
- Cooch Behar State, India (as recorded)
- Midnapore, Bengal (as recorded)
- Bengal, India (as recorded)
- Chota Nagpur, Bihar (as recorded)
- Dacca, India (as recorded)
