George Bagster Phillips (February 1835-27 October 1897) was the police surgeon for the Metropolitan Police Service's H Division at the time of the Whitechapel murders.
Biography[]
George Bagster Phillips was born in Camberwell, Surrey in 1835, and he was appointed a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1861. He became police surgeon for the Met's H Division in London's Whitechapel district in 1865, and he came to prominence during the Whitechapel murders, conducting or attending autopsies for the murdered prostitutes Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. He later investigated the murders of Alice McKenzie in 1889 and Frances Coles in 1891, determining that the latter was not killed by a man with any medical knowledge, thus deducing that Jack the Ripper was not responsible. He died from apoplexy in 1897.