Tales from the Coroner's Casebook

A retired history teacher, who spent the entirety of his thirty-nine-year career at the same school in north Worcestershire, he now lives on the Dudley-Wolverhampton border, and his two main passions are local history and The Great War. He finds his focus has often been where the two topics relate geographically: in South Staffordshire, The Black Country and Worcestershire. Quintin is also very active within the Black Country Society and the Western Front Association.

This presentation examines the cases of unexplained deaths presided over by Henry Smith Esq.  – Coroner of the County of Stafford between 1801 and 1842. These include accidents, manslaughter, murder-suicides and ‘Visitations of God’. Join Coroner Smith's jury and reconsider some of the cases he dealt with during the first part of his long career.