High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wynne Edwin Baxter FRMS, FGS LL.B (born 1 May 1844 - 1 October 1920 in Lewes, Sussex) was an English lawyer, translator, antiquarian and botanist, but is best known as the Coroner who conducted the inquests on most of the victims of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to 1891 including three of the victims of Jack the Ripper in 1888, as well as on Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man".