In August 1842 he and seven other men joined the newly formed Detective Branch at Scotland Yard. By 1841 he was living in a police dormitory at a stationhouse in Gray's Inn Lane in St Pancras. He married Elizabeth Harding (born 1818), and they had a son, Jonathan Whicher (born 1838), who died young. Whicher was 5' 8" tall, with brown hair, pale skin and blue eyes. After working as a labourer he passed the physical and literacy tests and joined the Metropolitan Police on 18 September 1837 as a police constable with the number E47 (Holborn Division). He was baptised on 23 October 1814 at the church of St Giles in Camberwell. Whicher was born in 1814 in Camberwell, London, the son of Rebecca and Richard Whicher, a gardener. Wingfield's Jack Frost, among other fictional detectives. He was one of the inspirations for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket, Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse, Wilkie Collins's Sergeant Cuff and R. In 1860, he was involved in investigating the Constance Kent murder case, which was the subject of Kate Summerscale's 2008 book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, as well as the film of the same name. During his career, Whicher earned a reputation among the finest in Europe. He was one of the original eight members of London's newly formed Detective Branch, which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842. Detective Inspector Jonathan "Jack" Whicher (1 October 1814 – 29 June 1881) was an English police detective.
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