Dr Pritchard The Poisoning Adulterer: A Victorian Killer Doctor

Dr Edward William Pritchard was born in 1825 in Southsea Hampshire he was the son of a navy captain and came from a family with distinguished naval connections.On the surface the doctor was well mannered and respectable. He was a kind and loving husband who adored his wife and family. Beneath that pleasant exterior however lurked a darkness that few would have guessed existed. He was a loathsome arrogant man a serial adulterer and a sociopathic liar who would go down in history as one of Britains most evil killers.But was the doctor innocent of such sinister crimes? What was his motive for murder? In a case that gripped the nation reports suggest the possibility of even more victims.Based on historical records and written creatively this account closely examines the Pritchards lives and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the sinister doctors victims.Dr Edward William Pritchard was born in 1825 in Southsea Hampshire he was the son of a navy captain and came from a family with distinguished naval connections. On the surface the doctor was well mannered and respectable. He was a kind and loving husband who adored his wife and family. Beneath that pleasant exterior however lurked a darkness that few would have guessed existed. He was a loathsome arrogant man a serial adulterer and a sociopathic liar who would go down in history as one of Britains most evil killers. But was the doctor innocent of such sinister crimes? What was his motive for murder? In a case that gripped the nation reports suggest the possibility of even more victims. Based on historical records and written creatively this account closely examines the Pritchards lives and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the sinister doctors victims.