Montague Druitt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Montague Druitt

Suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, cricketer, barrister and schoolteacher

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1857

Place of Birth: Wimborne Minster, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1888

Profession: school teacher, cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Montague John Druitt (15 August 1857 – early December 1888) was one of the suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that took place in London between August and November 1888. He came from an upper-middle-class English background, and studied at Winchester College and the University of Oxford.
After graduating, he was employed as an assistant schoolmaster at a boarding school and pursued a parallel career in the law, qualifying as a barrister in 1885.
His main interest outside work was cricket, which he played with many leading players of the time, including Lord Harris and Francis Lacey. In November 1888, he lost his post at the school for reasons that remain unclear.
One month later his body was discovered drowned in the River Thames.
His death, which was found to be a suicide, roughly coincided with the end of the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.
Private suggestions in the 1890s that he could have committed the crimes became public knowledge in the 1960s and led to the publication of books that proposed him as the murderer.
The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, however, and many writers from the 1970s onwards have rejected him as a likely suspect.