Cecil Whiteley attended Dulwich College, where he had an undistinguished academic record, before studying at King's College, Cambridge,[1] where he graduated BA in 1897 with a Third Class degree in the Classical Tripos.
He was appointed a Treasury Counsel in 1915, in which year he appeared for the prosecution at the Old Bailey with Archibald Bodkin (later Director of Public Prosecutions) and Travers Humphreys against George Joseph Smith, the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer.
[7] Norah Turner, the socialite (later Lady Docker) was a dance hostess at London's Cafe de Paris when a young woman.
Her autobiography records that she courted by three men simultaneously, known as ‘The Judge, the Duke and the Frenchman’.
[citation needed] In the 1981 British television series The Lady Killers an episode called Darlingest Boy dealt with the Thompson-Bywaters murder case.