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  Bernard Spilsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947) was a famous British pathologist.
Bernard Spillsbury was born in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1877.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury committed suicide by gas in 1947.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Spilsbury   (259 words)

  
 Bernard Spilsbury -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947) was a famous (The people of Great Britain) British (A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis) pathologist.
Bernard Spillsbury was born in Leamington Hastings, (Click link for more info and facts about Warwickshire) Warwickshire in 1877.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury committed (The act of killing yourself) suicide by gas in 1947.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Be/Bernard_Spilsbury.htm   (261 words)

  
 George Joseph Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Lloyd/Smith was arrested for the charge of bigamy and suspicion of murder, the renowned pathologist Bernard Spilsbury was asked to determine how the women died despite the circumstances.
Baffled, Spilsbury routinely took measurements of the corpse and had the tub sent to London.
Finally, Neil did what Spilsbury had suggested: he unexpectedly pulled the feet of one of the divers, and her head glided underwater before she knew what was happened.
wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Joseph_Smith   (2242 words)

  
 Blue Plaque for Founder Of Forensic Pathology Sir Bernard Spilsbury : English Heritage : English Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947), the leading forensic pathologist of the 20th century, was commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on 22 November 2004 at 11am at 31 Marlborough Hill, London, NW8, where he lived from 1912 until the bombing of London in 1940.
Bernard Henry Spilsbury was born in Leamington in 1877, and received his medical education at Oxford and St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Spilsbury’s study was located on the ground floor, where he would write up his notes, and it was here he began a system of filing case details, eventually resulting in six thousand case cards.
amaxus.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.4570   (554 words)

  
 BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Culture - Post Mortem exhibition
Spilsbury was born in Leamington in 1877 and went on to work on many famous criminal cases.
Spilsbury's evidence was the deciding factor in some of the most sensational trials of the early 20th century, the most infamous of which was the Crippen trial in 1910.
Post mortem: Sir Bernard Spilsbury and forensic science is on at the Royal Pump Rooms Art Gallery and Museum in Leamington on 1 February - 30 March 2003.
www.bbc.co.uk /coventry/culture/stories/2003/02/post-mortem-exhibition.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Sir Henry Wilson
Bernard (later Sir) Spilsbury, the famous pathologist, arrived at the scene and carried out his examination of Wilson's body.
Spilsbury was able to precisely describe where the murderers had been standing in relation to their victim and even the order in which some of the shots had been fired.
Sir Henry Wilson was buried in the crypt at St. Paul's Cathedral, located in the City of London.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /henry_wilson.htm   (1060 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Williams Sir Bernard
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Williams Sir Bernard
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard Henry (1877-1947), pioneering British forensic pathologist, the leading “detective-pathologist” of his day (Forensic Medicine;...
Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard (1913-), British pioneer of radio astronomy who utilized World War II advances in radar technology.
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 Murder in the UK - An Educational and Informative look at the UK Murder Scenee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent police pathologist worked on all the major murders between the two world wars.
Spilsbury's career began with the case of Dr Crippen, who in 1910 murdered his wife and buried her in lime, attempting afterwards to escape to Canada with his lover.
Spilsbury became a legend, almost as much celebrity status as some of the cases he investigated.
www.murderuk.com /misc/spilsbury.htm   (451 words)

  
 Metropolitan Police Service
The next development was the arrival of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who carried out the post-mortem examination on the 19 June 1934.
In respect of the earlier age assessment of the Brighton torso, Sir Bernard Spilsbury believed the victim to be aged around 25 years old.
It was felt by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who gave expert forensic evidence at the trial, that death had been caused by a hammer blow, although suggestions were also made that her skull had been fractured by accident in a fall.
www.met.police.uk /history/mancini.htm   (966 words)

  
 Taxitalk Online edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A former army medic Mr Maloney became interested in Sir Bernard's career when he had helped pathologists in the course of his duties, and decided to approach English Heritage in 2000.
Sir Bernard moved to Marlborough Hill two years after first reaching wide spread public knowledge during the famous Dr Crippen Case, which became a footnote in world history as it is acknowledged as the world's first arrest attributed to wireless.
Sir Spilsbury lived at Marlborough Hill from 1912 to 1940 and during this time he featured in many famous murder cases and was knighted in 1923.
www.taxitalk.co.uk /pages/issue135/thingsrnt.htm   (537 words)

  
 The Vera Page Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The police thought she had been murdered somewhere else and then dragged into the growth alongside the road.
The remains were examined by Sir Bernard Spilsbury.
He discovered coal-dust and candle wax on the girl's body, as well as a piece of ammonia-stained cloth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Vera_Page_Case   (212 words)

  
 Andrew Lownie Literary Agency :: The Honorary Pathologist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Spilsbury was adored by judges, policemen, and prosecuting barristers.
While Spilsbury did much to bring forensic medicine to the heart of the trial process, this “prima donna increasingly thought of as a bit of a rogue” sent men to the gallows on flawed evidence.
Andrew sought out people who remembered Spilsbury, who had studied under him, and, most revealingly of all, those who had heard him testify in court (including one centenarian former Old Bailey judge with perfect recall of a trial in 1930).
www.andrewlownie.co.uk /books/rose.andrew/pathologist.shtml   (319 words)

  
 The Funeral Sermon of John Spilsbury
John Spilsbury began ministering to this church somewhere in 1655-1656 era.
Ought he not rather to say, Sir, what, thus treat such a wretch as I? I never deserved the least favor, all the service that I can do is nothing in the world to what I owe my Lord.
Without saying it directly John Spilsbury and John Eccles hastened to imply that the WAY saints go about doing the will of God is just as important as the desired ends or goals they are working towards in doing the will of God.
victorian.fortunecity.com /dadd/464/funeral.html   (9652 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Bernard Spilsbury acquired his formidable reputation after catching murderers like the infamous Dr Crippen while living at 31 Marlborough Hill.
Spilsbury's expertise and skills were peerless in the field of pathology.
When a biography of Spilsbury by Browne and Tullet, called His Life and Cases, was published in 1951 it became an instant bestseller.
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 The Romance Reader's Connection
But Greeno is smart enough to wait for the arrival of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, known as the world’s first medical/forensic detective.
Sir Bernard is able to verify that the woman was strangled, and discovers bruising on her chest, where the killer clearly knelt to keep his victim immobile.
She is hardly prepared for the next victim, however; a woman of questionable virtue who dies after having her throat slashed.
www.theromancereadersconnection.com /reviews/collinsmaxallan1704.html   (401 words)

  
 Blue Plaques News : Blue Plaques : Research & Conservation : English Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Harry Ricardo is the first mechanical engineer to be commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
Sir Norman Hartnell, court dressmaker and designer, was commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on 11 May 2005 at 26 Bruton Street, London W1, where he lived and worked from 1935 to 1979.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947) was the leading forensic pathologist of the 20th century
www.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/nav.1504   (303 words)

  
 Hawley Harvey Crippen - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Their disappearance led Scotland Yard to do another search of the house, and this time they found the remains of a human body in the basement.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury found traces of hyoscine, a calming drug.
Crippen had to be identified from a piece of skin from her belly, because her head, limbs and skeleton were never recovered.
www.iridis.com /Dr._Crippen   (370 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Sir Bernard Spilsbury''' (1877-1947) was a famous United Kingdom British pathologist.
During his career Spilsbury performed thousands of autopsy autopsies, not only for murder victims but also of executed criminals.
Spilsbury was Order of the British Empire knighted 1923.
www.mauspfeil.net /Bernard_Spilsbury.html   (319 words)

  
 Mostly Murder (Sydney, Sir Smith)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In one of his most interesting trials, Sir Sydney testified on behalf of Sidney Fox, a convicted forger, flmailer, swindler, and thief who was also accused of murdering his own mother for the insurance money--she died less than an hour before her accidental death policy was due to expire.
Dear old mom was a confederate in most of her son's crimes, but Fox emphatically denied strangling her and setting her hotel room on fire, and Sir Sydney believed him.
Sir Sydney Smith writes with a dry, subtle sense of humor, and with understatements.
software.justwilliams.com /us/product/0880293063.htm   (826 words)

  
 crime quiz
It was 1926, and the eminent pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury, was appearing for the defence.
He took the view that the absence of powder flening around the wound, usually seen in suicide cases because of the near discharge, was not inconsistent with suicide.
If it had not been for the considerable reputation of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, he might very well have been found guilty, and in my opinion, that was probably the right result.
www.parmaq.com /truecrime/quiz.htm   (1948 words)

  
 Tracking down a most unlikely hero
It was not enough to kill him outright or leave lasting evidence, but he died from liver damage two days later, on Jan 28, in St Pancras Hospital, and his body fell, in the normal course of events, to the attention of W Bentley Purchase, the coroner for the district.
Glyndwr Michael's small but valuable place in history arose from the fact that, shortly before his death, Mr Purchase had been contacted by his old friend and colleague Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the foremost forensic pathologist in Britain at the time.
Sir Bernard told Mr Purchase that, as part of a vital war mission, the intelligence services were seeking the body of a male in his mid-30s, whose cause of death could be confused with drowning.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/28/nhero128.html   (1423 words)

  
 Sidney Bernard Goulter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The man's name was given as Sidney Bernard Goulter, the son of a retired police inspector, and he lived at 24, Bockhampton Road, Kingston upon Thames, with his parents.
There was also a suggestion that Constance might also have died as a direct result of the exposure and not from strangulation.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury disagreed and gave evidence that the cloth must have been tied tightly to begin with.
www.murderfile.net /axzmembers/names/goulter.htm   (655 words)

  
 City of the Silent - Timeline of Death - Modern Times
He has the neglected grave cleaned and restored, an act which endears him to Ira Davenport, who reveals the secrets of the brothers' "spiritualist" act to Houdini.
Sir Bernard H. Spilsbury identifies a headless, limbless torso as that of Cora Crippen.
Her husband is apprehended in the United States and returned to England for trial and eventual execution.
www.alsirat.com /silence/cemtime/time5.html   (4111 words)

  
 spilsbury
Uriah SPILSBURY who was born between 1720 - 1730, Uriah SPILSBURY married twice firstly to Anne POWELL on 6th October 1746 at St.Chad's Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
George SPILSBURY (1770) married twice firstly to Sarah GOODMAN on 2nd January 1792 at Mancetter, Warwickshire.
Charles SPILSBURY born 7th September 1838 in St.Mary District, Birmingham, bpt.
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 Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) : Tools that helped trap Crippen.(News) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The new exhibition celebrates the life and work of Leamington-born Sir Bernard Spilsbury, a man instrumental in helping to catch the notorious Dr Crippen.
Visitors will also be able to take a rare look at original evidence from some of the notorious trials Sir Bernard worked on, some of the index cards from his post-mortem examinations and a scrapbook about the trial of Dr Crippen compiled by the Scotland Yard inspector who dealt with the case.
Sir Bernard, who lived from 1877 to 1947, was born in Bath Street, Leamington, where his father ran a chemist's shop.
static.highbeam.com /c/coventryeveningtelegraphengland/february062003/toolsthathelpedtrapcrippennews/index.html   (210 words)

  
 This Day in History
He argued that he was only trying to protect his marriage by disposing of the body in the manner in which he did.
The medical examiner in charge, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, had no choice but to attempt to reassemble Kaye's body in order to find the cause of death.
Missing only her head, Spilsbury was able to discount Mahon's claim that a single fall was responsible for her death.
www.thisdayinhistory.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=crime&month=10272957&day=10272967   (374 words)

  
 Newsletter Vol23 no.2 page 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A man of considerable wit and vitality, his death marks the end of an era in British forensic pathology.
He was the archetypal ‘Home Office Pathologist’; figure who maintained the traditions of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, John Glaister and Keith Simpson, in dress, mannerisms and, above all, cool professionalism.
When he moved to Sheffield in 1961 the Public Mortuary was housed in decrepit premises built at the turn of the century.
www.shef.ac.uk /s/staff/newsletter/vol23no2/page8.html   (865 words)

  
 Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Written as an approving biography of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent police pathologist who worked on all the major murders between the two world wars, it is now more enjoyable as a period piece than as a serious and critical biography.
The book begins with the case of Dr Crippen, who in 1910 murdered his wife and buried her in lime, attempting afterwards to escape to Canada with his lover.
But mostly, according to this book, there was murder for money and murder to be rid of a nuisance spouse or girlfriend.
www.jp41.dial.pipex.com /R367.HTML   (721 words)

  
 Anil Aggrawal’s page of Forensic Quotes: Forensic quotes starting with F
A simple newspaper report of Sir Bernard’s attendance at a mortuary or churchyard is enough to condemn an accused man to death, even before committal proceedings have begun.
Spilsbury’s statements in the witness box were often based upon insufficient material, and a lack of clinical experience.
In his time Sir Robert Peel was the Prime Minister of Britain - from December 1834 till March 1835, and then again from September 1841 till July 1846.
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