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Richard Whittington-Egan
Richard Whittington-Egan (born 22 October 1924) is a Liverpool-born writer and criminologist, the author of ''Liverpool Colonnade'' and ''Liverpool Roundabout'', two colourful chronicles of Liverpool's historical characters, crimes and mysteries. A leading author on true crime over a long period of time, he is acknowledged also as an expert on Jack the Ripper.
==Early Biography==
Born in Liverpool〔(Profile ), connection.ebscohost.com; accessed 10 June 2015.〕 in 1924 and grew up spending half the year there and half the year in his other family home in South Kensington, London. He is, on his mother's side, the great-grandson of Jakob Zeugheer-Herrmann, the first conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, who conducted for Paganini and Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, composer of several symphonies and of an opera, ''Angela of Venice''. Another maternal ancestor is Sir Jonah Barrington, the Irish High Court Judge, who was also a writer and author of several classic volumes of Irish history and local chatter and colour. On his father's side he is descended from Dr. Richard Whittington-Egan, his great-grandfather, who was Crown pathologist for Ireland.
Educated by a private tutor and at Stonyhurst College, the noted Jesuit public school near Clitheroe, Lancashire. Whittington-Egan originally read medicine in the family's traditional medico-legal tradition and was also to qualify for the Bar. During the Second World War, he served in the army, in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, where he broadcast to the Allied Forces. Illness while in Italy forced him to curtail his medical studies and concentrate on writing. As a freelance journalist, he contributed to many newspapers and periodicals, including ''The Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Guardian'', ''Contemporary Review'', ''Books and Bookmen'', ''Chambers's Journal'', the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Daily Express'', the ''Liverpool Daily Post'', and the ''Liverpool Echo'' as well as the ''New York Times''. He spent 30 years on Fleet Street with Associated Newspapers. He also served as a director of ''Contemporary Review'', and in 2004 and 2011, two selections of his critical writings were published in book form.
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