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Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (January 9, 1833 – October 24, 1917) was a British officer in India who used fingerprints for contract identification. He was the son of astronomer John Herschel and was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire).
Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification on contracts.
William James Herschel is considered one of the first Europeans to recognize the value of fingerprints for identification purposes. He began using fingerprints and handprints, instead of signatures, in his work as a magistrate in colonial India in the 1850s and 1860s.
Fingerprints for Identification. Fingerprints were initially not used for law enforcement. William James Herschel, a British civil servant in India and grandson of astronomer William Herschel, began using fingerprints in the 1850s for legal contracts.
sir william herschel (1833-1917) In 1858, he began fingerprinting the natives with whom he had official transactions. He demanded an imprint of signers hand instead of signature to avoid any future repeated trickery.
Herschel (1833-1917) was one of the first to advocate the use of fingerprinting in the identification of criminal suspects. While working for the Indian Civil Service, he began to use thumbprints on documents as a security measure to prevent the repudiation of signatures in 1858. Sir William Herschel finger prints.
WHEN Sir Francis Galton issued “Finger-Print Directories” in 1895 he inscribed the volume to Sir William J. Herschel, Bart., in the following words:—“I do myself the pleasure of dedicating...
