Collection from the ‘father of forensic medicine’ and photography pioneer comes to auction in Suffolk

The collection of photography pioneer and medical writer Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-80) is to be offered at auction house Lacy Scott & Knight in Bury St Edmunds in October following the success of a first sale last year.

As a toxicologist he participated in a number of notorious Victorian poisoning cases and the collect…

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