Life
1841-1918; b. Dublin, ed. TCD, BA 1862; Bar, 1863; secret service branch
of Home Office, 1867, dealing with Irish affairs; adviser on political
crime from 1868, investigating Fenians, and acting as ‘control’
for the IRB infiltrator Henri le Caron; supplied the Times with
material on Fenian movement for Parnell Commission; produced second series
of articles based on le Caron’s materials; forced to retire from
Dublin by exposure in le Caron’s Twenty-five Years in the Secret
Service (1892); served as head of CID (London) during 1888-1901; investigated
Jack the Ripper murders; also Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement
(1906); Criminals and Crime (1907); The Lighter Side of My Official
Life (1910); acted as Presbyterian preacher for 50 years and issued
some 20 works on religious subjects including The Silence of God (1897);
The Bible and Modern Criticism (1902); Misunderstood Texts of
the New Testament (1916); KCB on retirement, 1901; d. London. DIB
DIH DIW
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Works
Human Destiny (Toronto: S. R. Briggs 1896); Criminals and Crime:
Some Facts and Suggestions (London: J. Nisbet & Co 1907), xii,
182pp.; Do., rep. edn. (NY: Garland 1984); A Great Conspiracy
(London: Murray 1910), 118pp.; With Horace Plunkett in Ireland (London:
Macmillan 1935), 293pp.; Do., rep. edn., foreword by William Ross
(Blackrock: Irish Academic Press [1983])
Also The Bible and Modern Criticism: Letters from Professor Huxley, the Duke of Argyll, and Sir Robert Anderson, Exhibiting Professor Huxley's Retreat from a Position he Maintained Against the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone in the Nineteenth Century (London: The Times Pub. Co. [1892]). [copy held in the British Library, Mic.F.232]
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- J. S. Crone, et al., “John Rutherford”, in The Irish Book Lover , Vol. I, No. 11 (June, 1910);
- J. J. Abraham (Surgeon's Journey: Autobiography, London: Heinemann 1957)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)