About H. R. Oswald
Lived 1852 – 1940 (aged 87–88). H. R. Oswald was a barrister.
Henry Robert Oswald M.D., M.B., C.M., (8 February 1852 – 1940 He was privately educated in the Isle of Man and later Edgbaston, Birmingham, before moving on to the Royal High School, Edinburgh. Then, in 1890 he entered the Middle Temple to train as a barrister, being called to the bar in 1894. a case involving Ronald True, and deaths caused by the 1928 Thames flood of London.
His reminiscences were published in 1936 by Stanley Paul as Memoirs of a London County Coroner.
Family life Oswald married twice, firstly to Jean Moir-Byres with whom he had a daughter. Jean died in 1907. He married again in 1908 to Ethel Mary Cundell. Oswald died in early 1940 in the Salisbury district of Wiltshire.
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English coroner
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H. R. Oswald was born on 8 February 1852.
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H. R. Oswald died in 1940.
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H. R. Oswald was a barrister.
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