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Essay on Sir Bernard Spilsbury
Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947), the most important forensic pathologist of the twentieth century, was remembered with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on 22nd November 2004 at 11am at 31 Marlborough Hill, London, NW8, where he lived from 1912 until the intimidation of London in 1940. It was all through the time that Spilsbury lived at this address that he got repute as the most luminous scientific detective of all time. Sir Bernard, who lived from 1877 to 1947, was born in Bath Street where his father has chemist's shop. He went on to turn out to be one of the greatest medical detectives of all time and an initiator of modern forensic medicine.
Later than the Crippen trial, Spilsbury was selected honorary pathologist to the Home Office. It was in this capability that Spilsbury turned out to be involved with a continuous stream of extremely publicized murder cases across England and Wales, together with those of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Louis Voisin, Patrick Mahon, as well as G.J Smith. The high profile nature of these cases enhanced his importance as a witness, and he was knighted in 1923. By this moment, Spilsbury’s was a household name. (Basil Thomson, 1936)
Even though Spilsbury retired as Home Office pathologist in 1934, he carried out to work in an honorary capacity. Throughout his long career he gave verification in almost every murder examination in the south of England, and performed thousands of post-mortems. Throughout the concluding part of his career, he was active in pressing for the development of forensic science, and viewed the institution of the first Police Scientific Department at Hendon, London, and the ensuing setting up of Home Office Laboratories in further parts of the country. He as well led the General Medical Council and universities to spread out the teaching of forensic medicine in undergraduate courses. (Paul Callan, 2000)....
