Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer. He was born in Edinburgh to Thomas Littlejohn 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.
He 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. 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.
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 and as Medical Advisor to the Crown in Scotland in criminal cases, he was often called upon as an expert witness. He was an forensic expert involved in police investigations, and taught Arthur Conan Doyle forensic medicine when Doyle was studying at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Littlejohn was the father of the eminent surgeon Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927). Henry Littlejohn was knighted in 1895 by Queen Victoria.
He 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. 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.
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 and as Medical Advisor to the Crown in Scotland in criminal cases, he was often called upon as an expert witness. He was an forensic expert involved in police investigations, and taught Arthur Conan Doyle forensic medicine when Doyle was studying at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Littlejohn was the father of the eminent surgeon Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927). Henry Littlejohn was knighted in 1895 by Queen Victoria.
Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer. He was born in Edinburgh to Thomas Littlejohn 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.
He 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. 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.
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 and as Medical Advisor to the Crown in Scotland in criminal cases, he was often called upon as an expert witness. He was an forensic expert involved in police investigations, and taught Arthur Conan Doyle forensic medicine when Doyle was studying at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Littlejohn was the father of the eminent surgeon Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927). Henry Littlejohn was knighted in 1895 by Queen Victoria.
He 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. 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.
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 and as Medical Advisor to the Crown in Scotland in criminal cases, he was often called upon as an expert witness. He was an forensic expert involved in police investigations, and taught Arthur Conan Doyle forensic medicine when Doyle was studying at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Littlejohn was the father of the eminent surgeon Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927). Henry Littlejohn was knighted in 1895 by Queen Victoria.
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