John
Glaister
(1856-1932)
John
Glaister was a Glasgow University medical graduate. University
of Glasgow Professor of Forensic Medicine and Public Health. He
was a prestigious forensic scientist and author of Medical Jurisprudence
still considered a standard textbook for today's scientists. Glaister
had a high public profile due to his regular (and often dramatic)
appearances in court as an expert witness. So much so that the
novelist and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the popular
Perry Mason books , dedicated one of his novels ('The Case of
the Horrified Heirs') to him.
Two
John Glaisters, father and then son, between them, occupied the
regius chair of forensic medicine at Glasgow University for over
sixty years between 1899 and 1962.
|
