Geoffrey Austin Gresham (1 November 1924–24 July 2009) was a British pathologist and writer of ''A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology'', a seminal book on the subject. He was educated at

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

and

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where he was awarded the Jelf Medal.‘GRESHAM, Prof. (Geoffrey) Austin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 Austin Gresham was emeritus professor of morbid anatomy and

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at Jesus College,

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. His 1975 handbook, ''A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology'', was compiled for trainee pathologists and, according to the author, "designed to fit into a jacket pocket so that it could be taken into the field".

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Telegraph newspaper article on Gresham
- Daily Telegraph obituary {{DEFAULTSORT:Gresham, Austin 1924 births 2009 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College London Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge British pathologists