1. Frederick George Abberline was a British chief inspector for the London Metropolitan Police.
18 Facts About Frederick Abberline
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Frederick Abberline is best known for being a prominent police figure in the investigation into the Jack the Ripper serial killer murders of 1888.
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Edward Abberline died in 1849, and his widow opened a small shop and brought up her four children, Emily, Harriett, Edward and Frederick, alone.
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Frederick Abberline was a clockmaker until he left home to go to London, where he enlisted in the Metropolitan Police on 5 January 1863, being appointed to N Division with the Warrant Number 43519.
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PC Frederick Abberline so impressed his superiors that they promoted him to Sergeant two years later on 19 August 1865.
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Frederick Abberline was promoted to Inspector on 10 March 1873, and three days later, on 13 March, transferred to H Division in Whitechapel.
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On 8 April 1878 Frederick Abberline was appointed Local Inspector in charge of H Division's CID.
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On 26 February 1887 Frederick Abberline transferred to A Division, and then moved to CO Division at Scotland Yard on 19 November 1887, being promoted to Inspector First-Class on 9 February 1888 and to Chief Inspector on 22 December 1890.
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Frederick Abberline was placed in charge of the various detectives investigating the Ripper murders.
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Frederick Abberline presented a paper about the case to the International Association for Identification Conference in 2011 and to the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences in 2014, suggesting Chapman as the most likely the Ripper.
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Frederick Abberline was involved in the investigation of the Cleveland Street scandal in 1889.
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Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline retired from the police on 8 February 1892, having received 84 commendations and awards.
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Frederick Abberline was married twice: once in March 1868 to 25-year-old Martha Mackness, the daughter of a labourer, from Elton, Northamptonshire; she died of tuberculosis two months after the marriage.
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On 17 December 1876 Frederick Abberline married 32-year-old Emma Beament, the daughter of a merchant, from Hoxton New Town, Shoreditch.
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Frederick Abberline then returned to England and continued working for the agency, until another retirement in 1904.
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Frederick Abberline then bought a home, "Estcourt", 195 Holdenhurst Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth.
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Frederick Abberline died on 10 December 1929, aged 86, just under three months before his wife Emma, and was buried in Bournemouth at Wimborne Road Cemetery.
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The suggestion is often but erroneously made for the sake of drama that Frederick Abberline was unmarried and formed an attachment to one of the women connected to the events.