Austin Gresham

G Austin Gresham (born 1925) is a British pathologist and writer of A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology, a seminal book on the subject.

Austin Gresham emeritus professor of morbid anatomy and histopathology at Jesus College, Cambridge.

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".

It has however become "the Britart bible", according to Mat Collishaw, a British artist who came to prominence at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. He and other Young British Artists of the 1990s, such as Damien Hirst, used many of its explicit images of dead bodies in their artwork.