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HO 45/9969/X27267 Notes HBS, ?, GL March 9 -April 9, 1890 Page 1 of 2
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Not sure who the second note writer is. I'm not even sure what letter(s) he used to initial the note. He refers to the first note writer as Mr. Simpson.
The "HBS" encountered in these papers may be the then Home Office junior clerk Harry Butler Simpson.
Link to Home Office personnel in 1891:
The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register (London: W. H. Allen, 1891), Page 359
Simpson and his brothers attended Winchester at times which overlapped with the attendance of M. J. Druitt.
Winchester College, 1836-1906: A Register (1907), Page 314
by Winchester College
1874
Simpson, Harry Butler (B), b. 24 Jan., 1861 (3rd s.), bro. of John Murray
and Alexander Prout, above, pp. 254, 294.
Demy Magd. Coll. Oxon 1879-84, 1 CI. Mod. 1880, 1 CI. B.A. 1883; Principal
Clerk in the Home Office since 1884; Barr. Inner T. 1890; author of " Cross
Lights" 1888. ffl 189G, Eva, y. d. of Col. Cecil Brooke Lc Mesurier, C.B.,
R.A. Address 19, Brechin Place, S.W. Club Oxford and Cambridge.
Simpson, John Murray (B), b. 15 Feb., 1855, s. of John Price Simpson, Esq.,
45, Gloucester Terrace, London, and E., his wife, d. of Dr.
R. Renton, of Edinburgh (bro. of Alexander Prout and
Harry Butler, below, pp. 294, 314).
Lieut. R.A. 1874, Capt. 1883 ; Major (retired on full pav) Aug., 1895. D at 5, South St., Park Lane, 14 Sept., 1895.
Simpson, Alexander Prout (B), b. 9 Feb., 1859 (2nd s.), bro. of John Murray,
above, p. 254, and of Harry Butler, below, p. 314.
B.N.C. Oxon 1877, 4 Jur. B.A. 1880; Solicitor 1884, practising at 2, Prince's St., E.C. (Messrs. Simpson & Bowen). Address 35, Montpelier Sq., S.W. Club
Oxford and Cambridge.
In 1876 A. P. Simpson was the 12th man when Druitt was one of the first eleven.
W. A. Thornton
R. B. A. Prichard
A. H. Rooper
J. A. Fort
M. J. Druitt
J. Eyre
F. S. Baines
W. H. B. Bird
A. W. Moon
W. R. Sheldon
S. J. Wilson
12th A. P. Simpson
At Winchester. Eton won in
one innings by 99 runs.
In 1893 Harry Butler Simpson was named secretary to the police identification committee on which Arthur Griffiths and Melville Macnaghten served.
Fingerprint Directories (London: Macmillan, 1895), Page 8
by Sir Francis Galton
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