William Chester Minor
1834–1920
American surgeon and murderer. MD, Yale University, 1863. Assistant and demonstrator in anatomy at Yale, 1862–4. Translated and reviewed German works on natural history. Sent to England to recuperate after a breakdown, 1871. Murdered George Merrett in Lambeth in 1872, and was confined to Broadmoor Asylum. Supplied thousands of quotations for the OED. Deported to the United States, 1910.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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