Bernard Henry Knight was born on 3 May 1931 and is a British forensic pathologist and writer.
21 Facts About Bernard Knight
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Bernard Knight became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980.
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Bernard Knight studied medicine at the Welsh National School of Medicine, University of Wales.
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Bernard Knight graduated in 1954 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
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Bernard Knight was promoted to captain on 12 September 1956 with seniority from 29 August 1956.
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Bernard Knight served as a medical officer in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency.
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Bernard Knight ceased to belong to the reserve on 12 September 1964.
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Bernard Knight undertook one six-month job in medicine and one in surgery.
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Bernard Knight was then a Senior House Officer specialising in pathology from 1955 to 1956.
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Bernard Knight served in the British Army as a medical officer specialising in pathology from 1956 to 1959.
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Bernard Knight was a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle from 1965 to 1968.
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Bernard Knight then returned to his alma mater, the University of Wales, as a senior lecturer.
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Bernard Knight was promoted to reader in 1976 and to Professor of Forensic Pathology in 1980.
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Bernard Knight retired in 1996 becoming Emeritus Professor of the university.
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Bernard Knight served as a Home Office pathologist from 1965 to 1996.
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Bernard Knight was involved in a number of high-profile cases, including that of the serial killers Fred and Rosemary West, and the first use of DNA to confirm the identity of a body, that of Karen Price in 1989.
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Bernard Knight has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published.
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Bernard Knight has contributed to many other textbooks and has edited several medical journals - he was Managing Editor of Elsevier's Forensic Science International, the leading international publication in the field.
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Bernard Knight is a founder member of The Medieval Murderers, a select group of historical crime-writers within the Crime Writers' Association, who give presentations at literary festivals, libraries and bookshops, to promote their work amongst the public.
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Bernard Knight is one of the non-fiction judges for the annual 'Dagger' Awards of the Crime Writers' Association and a regular reviewer of crime books for the Internet site Tangled Web.
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Bernard Knight received the General Service Medal with Malaya clasp for his service during the Malayan Emergency.