Lionel Richard Charles Haward,FBPsS (1920–1998) was a Britishclinical psychologist and academic, who has been described as the "father of Britishforensic psychology".^[1][2] Following service with theRoyal Air Force Police during theSecond World War, he worked in theNational Health Service inpsychiatric hospitals. He led a successful campaign to allow psychologists to testify as experts in court in England, and was then himself anexpert witness at a number of high-profile trials. He latterly taught at theUniversity of Surrey, rising to becomeProfessor of Clinical Psychology.

Haward was born in 1920.^[3] He was educated at the Earl Haig School inAldershot, Hampshire, England.^[3] He later studied chemistry and psychology at theUniversity of Bristol (BA, MA) and undertook aDoctor of Psychology (Dr Psy) degree atLeyden University in the Netherlands.^[4][3][5]

During theSecond World War, Haward joined theRoyal Air Force (RAF). He was first attached toRAF Technical Training Command, before transferring to theRAF Police with whom he served in Germany.^[3] In the aftermath of the liberation of theconcentration camps, Haward "drew up a list of characteristics that high-ranking Nazi war criminals might display" that could be used in addition to survivors' witness testimony to identifySS officials and camp guards who had disguised themselves as ordinary soldiers or airmen; this strategy was an early example ofoffender profiling.^[6]

Haward successfully led a campaign to allow psychologists totestify as experts in court in England; previously only medically qualified persons were allowed to testify on the "mental functioning of witnesses or defendants".^[7] He was anexpert witness for many notable criminal trials in the 1960s and 1970s, includingDonald Neilson,^[8]John Stonehouse MP, and theOz magazine obscenity trials.^[4][5][9]

He worked in theNational Health Service as a clinical psychologist atpsychiatric hospitals, includingBarrow Hospital, Bristol,Winterton Hospital, County Durham, andGraylingwell Hospital, Chichester.^[3][4] In 1973, he joined theUniversity of Surrey as areader in clinical psychology.^[4][5] He rose to become Professor of Clinical Psychology,^[10] giving his inaugural lecture in 1979 titled "Hypnosis in the service of research".^[11] He retired from the university in 1987 and was appointedprofessor emeritus, but continued to work as an honorary consultant psychologist and as an expert witness.^[5]

• Haward, Lionel R. C. (September 1960). "The subjective meaning of stress".British Journal of Medical Psychology.33 (3):185–194.doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1960.tb01239.x.PMID 13712391.
• Haward, L. R. C. (1981).Forensic psychology. London: Batsford Academic and Educational.ISBN 9780713424751.
• Haward, L. R. C. (1990).Dictionary of Forensic Psychology. Chichester: Barry Rose Law.ISBN 978-1872328256.
• Gudjonsson, Gisli H.; Haward, L. R. C. (1998).Forensic psychology: a guide to practice. London; New York: Routledge.ISBN 0-415-13290-8.

• 1920 births
• Clinical psychologists
• 1998 deaths
• Forensic psychologists
• Academics of the University of Surrey
• Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
• Fellows of the British Psychological Society
• Alumni of the University of Bristol
• Leiden University alumni

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