# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melville-macnaghten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:09:48.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melville-macnaghten"
name: "Melville Macnaghten"
slug: "melville-macnaghten"
description: "Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913. A highly regarded and famously affable figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras he played major investigative roles in cases that led to the establishment and acceptance of fingerprint identification. He was also a major player in the pursuit and capture of Dr. Crippen, and of the exoneration of a wrongly convicted man, Adolph Beck, which helped lead to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907."
tagline: "British police comissioner (1853-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Macnaghten.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1853-06-16"
deathDate: "1921-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.34
  momentum:             2.455360973774366
  historical:           5.029844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Melville Macnaghten"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten"
    title: "Melville Macnaghten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten"
    title: "Melville Macnaghten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten"
    title: "Melville Macnaghten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten"
    title: "Melville Macnaghten"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1919772"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump