John Glaister

In 1888 he was promoted to Professor of Forensic Medicine and Public Health, which post he held until 1931, being succeeded by his son and namesake.

His proposers were John Gray McKendrick, William Jack, Frederick Orpen Bower and James Thomson Bottomley.

He was also noted as an expert witness in widely publicised legal cases such as the trial of Oscar Slater in 1909.

He assisted his father and Glasgow police until 1928, then served at the University of Cairo as Professor of Forensic Medicine, replacing Prof Sydney Smith.

[2] In 1935 he famously solved a human jigsaw of 70 body parts in the Buck Ruxton murder case.

The author Erle Stanley Gardner dedicated a Perry Mason book, "The Case of the Horrified Heirs", to Glaister.