Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet

{{Short description|British forensic scientist (1833–1917)}}

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|birth_place = Slough, England

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|fields = Fingerprints, forensics

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Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917)A. Spokes Symonds, ‘Herschel, Sir William James, second baronet (1833–1917)’, rev. Katherine Prior, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37539 accessed 14 Nov 2013]"Michele Triplett's Fingerprint Dictionary: H" (glossary), Michele Triplett, 2006, Fprints.nwlean.net webpage: [http://www.fprints.nwlean.net/h.htm Fprints-H] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016220514/http://www.fprints.nwlean.net/h.htm |date=16 October 2006 }}.Death Of Sir William Herschel. Author Of Finger-Print Identity System. (Obituaries) .He was

The Times Thursday, Oct 25, 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41618; col F Sir William Herschel. (News)

The Times Saturday, Oct 27, 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41620; col E‘HERSCHEL, Sir William James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U197819 accessed 13 Nov 2013] was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification on contracts."Michele Triplett's Fingerprint Dictionary: K" (glossary), Michele Triplett, 2006, Fprints.nwlean.net webpage: [http://www.fprints.nwlean.net/k.htm Fprints-K] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016220347/http://www.fprints.nwlean.net/k.htm |date=16 October 2006 }}.

{{cite book

|first=William J

|last=Herschel

|title=The Origin of Finger-Printing

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|year=1916

|isbn=978-1-104-66225-7

|url=http://galton.org/fingerprints/books/herschel/herschel-1916-origins-1up.pdf

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