University of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Years active
46
Known for
Advances in public health
Relatives
Henry Harvey Littlejohn (son)
Medical career
Profession
Doctor
Field
Public health, forensic science
Notable works
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of Edinburgh (1865)
Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE (8 May 1826 – 30 September 1914) was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served for 46 years as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, during which time he brought about significant improvements in the living conditions and the health of the city's inhabitants. He also served as a police surgeon and medical adviser in Scottish criminal cases.
Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE (8 May 1826 – 30 September 1914) was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served...
Littlejohn may refer to: Adrian Littlejohn (born 1970), British footballer Agnes Littlejohn (1865–1944), Australian writer Alan Littlejohn (1929–1996)...
Ardlamont mystery of 1893, usually with forensic expert Professor HenryLittlejohn. Bell also gave his analysis of the Ripper murders to Scotland Yard...
Henry Harvey Littlejohn, FRCSEd, FRSE (7 October 1862 – 15 August 1927) (widely known as Harvey Littlejohn ) was a Scottish academic, forensic scientist...
Charles Templeman, his colleague Alexander Stalker, Edinburgh surgeon HenryLittlejohn and two local doctors, David Lennox and William Kinnear. They concluded...
witness at the murder trial, as was another inspiration for Holmes, Dr. HenryLittlejohn, who was a medical forensic expert for the Crown. Alfred John Monson...
Doyle: "You are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it". Sir HenryLittlejohn, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh Medical...
in Kilmarnock, and gained his doctorate (MD) in 1875. Inspired by HenryLittlejohn in Edinburgh he developed an interest in public health and the application...
University of Paris: 79–84. PMID 11624232. Retrieved 23 August 2020. "Sir Henry D. Littlejohn, M.D., LL.D.Edin., F.R.C.S.E". British Medical Journal. 2 (2806):...
1859: Loch Katrine water supply is opened by Queen Victoria 1862: Dr HenryLittlejohn becomes the city's first medical officer 1865: Dr Edward William Pritchard...
terms of the Public Health (Scotland) Act of 1867. On the advice of Dr HenryLittlejohn, the medical officer of health, Edinburgh Town Council in 1870 converted Canongate...
led by Craigie Aitchison. The coroner's evidence was presented by HenryLittlejohn and John Glaister. The most crucial evidence on behalf of the defence...
1950s to the 1980s. Born in Lake, Mississippi, Littlejohn first learned to play the blues from Henry Martin, a friend of his father's. In 1946 he left...
Kenneth Littlejohn (a.k.a. Kenneth Austen; born c. 1941) is a convicted armed robber and gaol-breaker who claimed to be a Secret Intelligence Service/Official...
physician, chemist and early forensic analyst, acting as assistant to Sir HenryLittlejohn. He later served as Public Analyst to Edinburgh, Ross and Cromarty...
was already working to reform. He was met with opposition from Sir HenryLittlejohn and others who blamed individual habits instead. Despite butting heads...
then she met with the disapproval of some of the Edinburgh staff; Sir HenryLittlejohn remarked "I am afraid, madam, you are taking the bread out of some...
being in London, Birmingham and Dublin. The first Scottish analyst was HenryLittlejohn in Edinburgh in 1862, who, with a strong medicinal background and brilliant...
an assistant at the Laboratory of Public Health in Edinburgh under HenryLittlejohn. In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
Octavius Hill, Painter and Arts Activist William Keller, Anatomist HenryLittlejohn, Surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official Robert Macdonald...
The University of Edinburgh. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2020. "HenryLittlejohn helped win cholera fight". Scotsman. Retrieved 20 October 2014. "Dr...
long-running disputes with other Edinburgh medical figures, such as HenryLittlejohn. He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh...
Keiller, James Mathews Duncan (Midwifery) David Skae (Mental Illness) HenryLittlejohn (Medical Jurisprudence) John Bell's house was on the south east corner...
Gillespie 1872–73 William Walker 1873–75 James Simson 1875–77 Sir HenryLittlejohn 1877–79 Sir Patrick Heron Watson 1879–82 Francis Brodie Imlach 1882–83...
Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2020. Littlejohn, Brad (February 23, 2021). "The Appeal to Heaven and Our New Revolutionary...
proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, George Chrystal, James Geikie and HenryLittlejohn. He served as vice president of the society 1930 to 1933. In 1924 he...