Henry Solomon

Henry Solomon

Henry Solomon (died 14 March 1844) [cite book|last=Erredge|first=John Ackerson |title=History of Brighthelmston, or Brighton as I view it and others knew it |publisher=Lewis|location=Brighton|pages=p. 246|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uK8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA246&dq=%22Henry+Solomon%22+Brighton&as_brr=3|accessdate=2008-04-24|language=English] was the first Chief Constable of Brighton Borough Police.cite web|url=http://www.bhhc-shul.org/publicity/msbiographicaltour.pdf|title=Henry Solomon|work=Middle Street Synagogue, a part of Brighton's history|publisher=Friends of Middle Street Historic Synagogue|pages=p. 19|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-24] He was appointed as Chief Constable in 1838,cite news|url=http://archive.theargus.co.uk/2004/4/2/115942.html|title=New buses celebrate city's past|date=2004-04-02|work=The Argus|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-24] which was a notable appointment in that period as he was a Jewish man.cite web|url=http://www.sussex.police.uk/about_us/aboutus_museum.asp|title=Old Police Cells Museum|publisher=Sussex Police|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-24] While interviewing a prisoner he was bludgeoned with a poker, causing head injuries from which he later died. [cite book|title=The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1844|editor=Edmund Burke|publisher=Woodfall & Son|location=London|date=1845|pages=p. 29|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jc0kh800jGIC&pg=RA3-PA29&dq=%22Henry+Solomon%22+Brighton&as_brr=3|accessdate=2008-04-24|language=English] An appeal to which Queen Victoria gave £50 raised a large sum for the welfare of his widow and nine children. Solomon is thought to be the only chief constable in the United Kingdom to have been murdered in his own police station. [cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6183136.stm|title=Lottery boost for police museum |date=2006-11-25|publisher=BBC News|language=English|accessdate=2008-04-24] cite web|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/haunted_crime_scene2/11.html|title=Tied to His Work |work=Notorious murders/Timeless classics|publisher=Courtroom Television Network, LLC., Time Warner |language=English|accessdate=2008-04-24] His ghost reputedly haunts the basement of the office buildings. He is buried in Brighton's Borough Cemetery where he has been considered to be the 'celebrity' grave. [cite book|last=Singh|first=Tejvir |title=New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices|publisher=CABI Publishing|location=Cambridge, MA |date=2004|pages=p. 76|isbn=0851998631|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_8ek9zCDPCYC&pg=RA1-PA76&dq=%22Henry+Solomon%22+Brighton&as_brr=3&sig=G_LHy8gAiiWzHXt_TFk3AC5OHHU#PRA1-PA76,M1|accessdate=2008-04-24|language=English] In 2004, his was one of several local names to be chosen to appear on the front of a new fleet of buses in Brighton.

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External links

* [http://www.sussex.police.uk/about_us/aboutus_museum.asp Sussex Police Museum]
* [http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/633hs.htm Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, one of whose buses is named after Solomon]


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