Sir William James Herschel papers. 1865

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Sir William James Herschel papers. 1865

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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; 187...

Bengal Civil Service (active 1745-1970)

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