Henry Faulds
1843–1930
Scottish physician and developer of fingerprinting. Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1871. Missionary in India, 1871–3; in Japan, 1873–85. Founded a medical school in 1876, lecturing on surgery and physiology in Japanese, and a school for the blind in 1878. Suggested in a letter to Nature in 1880 that fingerprints might provide a scientific basis for the detection of criminals. Medical assistant in London and Staffordshire, 1885–92; GP and police surgeon at Stoke-on-Trent, 1892–1923.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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