Career
Keith Simpson was born in 1907 in Brighton and Hove where his father was a General practitioner. In August 1924, aged 17, Simpson enrolled at Guy’s Hospital Medical School. By the age of 25 he was a teacher in the Pathology department. In 1934 Dr Simpson was made Supervisor of Medico-legal Post-Mortems and had his first case with Scotland Yard. In 1937 he was appointed Medico-legal advisor to Surrey Constabulary. In 1963 he was elected to the Royal College of Pathologists.
In 1947 the student textbook Forensic Medicine, which Simpson wrote during the war, was published. Following the death of Bernard Spilsbury in the same year, Simpson became one of the leading forensic pathologists in Britain with a string of important cases. In 1950, along with Francis Camps, Donald Teare and Professor Sydney Smith, Simpson formed the Association of Forensic Medicine. In addition to his scientific publications, popular works such as his 1978 autobiography Forty Years of Murder made his name familiar to the public.
He practised medicine from 146 Harley Street and Guy's Hospital.
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