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Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB, CSI, KPM (26 July 1850 – 19 February 1931) was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police of London) from 1903 to 1918. His time in the post saw the first discussions on the introduction of police dogs to the force, but he is best remembered today for his ...
- Edward Richard Henry, 26 July 1850, Shadwell, London, England
- 19 February 1931 (aged 80), Cissbury, Ascot, Berkshire, England
Edward Henry was a British administrator in India who developed a fingerprint system based on Galton's abecedarian classification. He visited Galton in England and corresponded with him about the advantages and challenges of fingerprint identification.
Original Henry Classification System. In 1896, Sir Edward Richard Henry developed a fingerprint classification system that uses all fingerprints (hence, also called a 10-digit system). Prior to the modification by the FBI, the Henry system consisted of 4 classifications system. These were:
Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Edward Richard Henry, the pioneer of fingerprinting and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Discover how he introduced police dogs, telephones, and police boxes to the force, and how he survived an assassination attempt.
Evolution of Fingerprint Technology. This article traces the history of fingerprint technology and projects its future developments. Although many people laid the foundation for the development of fingerprint science, Sir Edward Henry, a British inspector-general of police in the Province of Bengal in the late 1800's, is credited with taking ...
The Henry Classification System is a long-standing method by which fingerprints are sorted by physiological characteristics for one-to-many searching. Developed by Hem Chandra Bose, Qazi Azizul Haque and Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, it was the basis of modern-day AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) classification methods ...
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Sir Edward Henry. Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1903 - 1918, pioneer of fingerprint identification and saw the introduction of dogs into the force. Born Shadwell. Trained for the Indian Civil Service and went there in 1873. 1891 appointed Inspector-General of Police of Bengal. 1896-7 oversaw the introduction of a system for classifying ...
