Henry Robert Oswald M.D., M.B., C.M., (8 February 1852[1] – 1940[2]) was a British barrister and coroner.
Oswald was born on 8 February 1852 in Trichnopoly, Madras, India, the son of Surgeon General H.R.
[2] He was privately educated in the Isle of Man and later Edgbaston, Birmingham, before moving on to the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
[2] Oswald originally intended to enter the Indian Civil Service but changed his mind and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
[6] His reminiscences were published in 1936 by Stanley Paul as Memoirs of a London County Coroner.