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GCSE History · key term
An official who investigates the cause and circumstances of certain deaths, including suspicious or violent deaths.
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Paper 1
Revise: Local and National Historical Sources for WhitechapelCoroners’ reports concern the causes and circumstances of deaths. They are particularly relevant to suspicious or violent deaths, including the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. They offer a different perspective from a police file: their central concern is establishing how a person died, rather than recording every aspect of the search for an offender.
Paper 1
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An official who investigated unnatural deaths, including suspected murders.
Constables also reported unnatural deaths to the coroner, who investigated them. If a death was identified as murder, the coroner informed the sheriff, the official responsible for keeping order in the county.