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Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician (died 1910)

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Born
September 11, 1862
Died
November 23, 1910
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1862

About Hawley Harvey Crippen

Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his second wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy. After his first wife, Charlotte Jane (née Bell), died of a stroke in 1892, Crippen entrusted his parents, living in San Jose, California, with the care of his son, Hawley Otto (1889–1974). In Carry On Loving, which was made and set in 1970, there is a jokily anachronistic reference to the Crippen case: Peter Butterworth appears in Edwardian costume, visiting a marriage bureau to seek a third wife, having dispatched both his first two.

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Hawley Harvey Crippen timeline

  1. After his first wife, Charlotte Jane (née Bell), died of a stroke in 1892, Crippen entrusted his parents, living in San Jose, California, with the care of his son, Hawley Otto (1889–1974).
  2. In Carry On Loving, which was made and set in 1970, there is a jokily anachronistic reference to the Crippen case: Peter Butterworth appears in Edwardian costume, visiting a marriage bureau to seek a third wife, having dispatched both his first two.

The world when Hawley Harvey Crippen was born

Hawley Harvey Crippen was born in 1862. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBattle of Antietam — bloodiest single day in US history
  • Technology milestoneGatling gun patented
  • World population~1.42B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAbraham Lincoln
  • U.S. population32.2M

1862 versus 2026

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Measure18622026
Population32.2M341 million

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