Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor (pictured) was hailed as the 'father of forensic medicine'
Case notes, X-rays and a microscope are among the personal effects of the ‘father of forensic medicine’ on sale today for a total of £100,000.
Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor, who helped solve some of the Victorian era’s most grisly murders, investigated the shocking murder of Fanny Adams and the heinous crimes of William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner.
A sample of wallpaper tested for arsenic us among the hundreds of available items that once belonged to the friend of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The medical marvel was also close to author Charles Dickens and gave him and Sir Arthur a tour of his laboratory, which likely served an inspiration for their celebrated works.
More than 250 historic items are being sold by his descendants as part of a house clearance at Thorne Court in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Untouched for several generations, the doctor's diverse possessions were found boxed up in the attic.
The marquee lot in the sale is his microscope dating from about 1850 which he would have used to help him solve some of the most high profile crimes of the period. It is tipped to sell for £5,000.
A glass plate wet collodion negative of a human skull (left) is among the personal effects for sale, as is a negative of a skeleton (right)
The doctor's microscope (pictured) - which dates from about 1850 - is tipped to sell for £5,000
The sale also features a sample subject that was used as part of his ground-breaking work on poisons.
He was also a pioneer of photography and a small selection of his daguerreotypes and early photographic items dating from the 1840s are included in the collection.
Doctor Taylor made his name as the long-standing Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Guy’s Hospital, south London, from 1831 until 1877.
The Swiney Bequest silver cup (left), designed by Daniel Maclise RA, modelled as a pedestal cup and cover in silver and silver gilt, is among the effects for sale today, as is a thermometrical table (right)
An 1841 handbill relating to the murder of Cornelius Rhymes by Hannah Rhymes and John Grace by poisoning was discovered in the loft, untouched for several generations
Alfred Swaine Taylor's ticket for the Great Exhibition 1851, as editor of the Medical Gazette, bearing his signature
He was feted for his work in medical circles and he received the coveted Swiney Cup which was awarded just once every five years for ‘excellence’ in the field. The cup is valued at £12,000.
But the general public mostly knew of him from his association with lurid criminal cases, notably the killing of Fanny Adams in 1867.
The syllabus of A Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence Doctor Taylor delivered at Guy's Hospital
She was abducted and brought into a hop garden near her home in Alton, Hampshire, by solicitor’s clerk Frederick Baker who killed her and cut her body into several pieces.
Dr Taylor was also heavily involved in the investigation of English doctor William Palmer who was dubbed the Rugeley Poisoner after he poisoned his friend John Cook with strychnine in 1855.
It was later found that he also poisoned his brother, mother in law and four of his children who died of ‘convulsions’ before their first birthday.
Palmer made large sums collecting his victims’ life insurance and was described by Charles Dickens as the ‘greatest villain that ever stood at the Old Bailey’.
One notorious murder Dr Taylor couldn’t solve was the strange case of the dismembered body in the Waterloo Bridge carpet bag in 1857.
An old lady was seen struggling with the bag and two men offered to carry it for her.
She rushed off and, believing the bag to contain valuable contents, the men opened it only to discover it was full of bones.
Taylor retired as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in 1878 and died two years later at his London home.
His only daughter Edith had married Frederick Methold of Thorne Court in 1865 and she inherited her fathers belongings.
A small collection of wallpaper samples and silks that have been tested for arsenic (left) and Doctor Taylor's On the Art of Photogenic Drawing, London 1840 (right) are up for sale
Sir Fred Pollock's report of the papers relating to the case of Thomas Smethurst, The Richmond Poisoner
The auction is being held by Lacy, Scott & Knight, of Bury St Edmunds, who are conducting the house clearance at Thorne Court.
Ed Crichton, partner at Lacy Scott Knight, said: 'Taylor was a father of British forensic medicine and participated in many notorious Victorian poisoning cases.
'He was friends with Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens and one suspects they would have discussed the murders of the period.
'His items were hidden away in boxes of the attic of Thorne Court which has been put on the market.
'He was an early day Silent Witness and his case notes are of historical and academic importance. Without his expertise, some murderers of the time would have escaped justice.'
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Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor (pictured) was hailed as the ‘father of forensic medicine’
Case notes, X-rays and a microscope are among the personal effects of the ‘father of forensic medicine’ on sale today for a total of £100,000.
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