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About Melville Macnaghten
Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913. A highly regarded and famously affable figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras he played major investigative roles in cases that led to the establishment and acceptance of fingerprint identification. He was also a major player in the pursuit and capture of Dr. Crippen, and of the exoneration of a wrongly convicted man, Adolph Beck, which helped lead to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.
Everything about Melville Macnaghten →- Occupation
- police officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- June 16, 1853
- Died
- May 12, 1921