Crimes of Dr Gramshaw: Downfall of a Yorkshire Doctor

Dr. Gramshaw was a successful family doctor in Yorkshire for thirty-five years until his final desperate actions brought his professional and personal life crashing down around him. This is a fascinating and shocking story of love and lust, success and deceit, crimes and lies, adultery, bigamy, and insanity. The events are true, reconstructed by detailed research into public records, and leave us to wonder if anyone knew about these before the final tragedy occurred.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2020
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Dr. Gramshaw was a successful family doctor in Yorkshire for thirty-five years, until his final desperate actions brought his professional and personal life crashing down around him. It was Easter 1908 when he called at the Glynn Hotel in York to attend to a young woman called Margaret Brown, who had been his patient before and who wanted his advice again. By the end of the month, Margaret was dead, and a Coroners inquest was uncovering a lot of uncomfortable information about the young governess and the doctor who tried to help her. This is a fascinating and shocking story of love and lust, success and deceit, crimes and lies, adultery, bigamy, and insanity. The events in it are true, reconstructed by detailed research into public records. As the truth emerges about the lies, deceits, and crimes that infiltrated Dr. Gramshaw's life, we are left to wonder: did anyone know about these before the final tragedy occurred? Should his family have seen what was happening? And why, when he was so popular, successful, and respected that even after his exposure, 1000 people attended his funeral, did Dr. Gramshaw throw it all away so recklessly?

Dr. Gramshaw was a successful family doctor in Yorkshire for thirty-five years, until his final desperate actions brought his professional and personal life crashing down around him. It was Easter 1908 when he called at the Glynn Hotel in York to attend to a young woman called Margaret Brown, who had been his patient before and who wanted his advice again. By the end of the month, Margaret was dead, and a Coroners inquest was uncovering a lot of uncomfortable information about the young governess and the doctor who tried to help her. This is a fascinating and shocking story of love and lust, success and deceit, crimes and lies, adultery, bigamy, and insanity. The events in it are true, reconstructed by detailed research into public records. As the truth emerges about the lies, deceits, and crimes that infiltrated Dr. Gramshaw's life, we are left to wonder: did anyone know about these before the final tragedy occurred? Should his family have seen what was happening? And why, when he was so popular, successful, and respected that even after his exposure, 1000 people attended his funeral, did Dr. Gramshaw throw it all away so recklessly?

Weight: 382g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800460287