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Henry, Edward (1850–1931)

English commissioner of Metropolitan Police. He entered the Indian civil service and in 1891 was appointed inspector-general of police in Bengal. In 1901 he was appointed assistant commissioner in London, England, and in 1903 commissioner. His name will be always associated with the perfecting of the fingerprint system of identifying criminals, a system he first worked on in India. He also contributed greatly to the efficiency of the modern CID (Criminal Investigation Department), did much to improve the status and conditions of the police, and inaugurated the Peel Training School.

Henry, Edward (Lamson) (1841–1919)

US artist. He was a popular genre painter and illustrator who specialized in simple scenes, as in Carriage Ride on a Country Lane (1906). Henry was born in Charleston, South Carolina.

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