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Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826 – 30 September 1914) was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer. ==Life== Henry Littlejohn was born in Edinburgh in 1826 to Thomas Littlejohn, a confectioner of 33 Leith Street,〔digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83400915&mode=transcription〕 and Isabella Duncan. He began his studies at the Perth Academy and the Royal High School, and continued them at the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine, graduating with distinction in 1847.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn: the beginning )〕 Littlejohn served as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health (1862–1908), introducing model sanitation improvements and the legal requirement to notify cases of infectious diseases.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn )〕 He contributed significantly to the public health movement in Edinburgh and to public health administration and also to urban management. He co-founded the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Littlejohn Collection )〕 Long a lecturer for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh at Surgeons' Hall, he was appointed to the Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh in 1897. Serving as Edinburgh's Police Surgeon from 1854 and as Medical Advisor to the Crown in Scotland in criminal cases, he was often called upon as an expert witness. From 1862 he was Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health.〔Edinburgh: Mapping the City by Christopler Fleet and Daniel MacCannell〕 A kirk elder at the High Kirk of Edinburgh, Littlejohn filled several prominent posts in public life, including nine years on the board of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1875–76), president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (1883–85), and president of the Royal Institute of Public Health (1893). Although Arthur Conan Doyle primarily credited Joseph Bell as being the source of inspiration for his character Sherlock Holmes, he also cited Henry Littlejohn as being a contributing influence. Henry Littlejohn, as a forensic expert involved in police investigations, appears to have been joined by Joseph Bell on several investigations; furthermore, Sir Henry taught Arthur Conan Doyle forensic medicine when Doyle was studying at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh. Henry Littlejohn was knighted in 1895 by Queen Victoria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn: Wider impact of his work )〕 In his later life he lived at 24 Royal Circus in Edinburgh's Second New Town.〔Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1905-6〕 He died at Benreoch, Argyll in 1914, and was interred at the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. His grave is on the edge of the southern path towards the west end. He is buried with his wife, Isabella Jane Harvey, and their children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Littlejohn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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