British hangmen 1800 - 1964

							Post 1868 known execution statistics
Name	Born	Lived in	Died		Years in office	Outcome	Hangings as principal	Hangings as assistant	As 2nd assistant	Total
Aird, James	1776	Ayr Scotland		09/08/1823	8	Died				5
Allen, Alfred	17/11/1888	Wolverhampton			9		3	14	0	17
Allen, Harry Bernard	5/11/1911	Denaby Yorks.	14/08/1992		23	Abolition	29	44	9	82
Allen, Herbert		Wolverhampton			1	Sacked	0	6	6	12
Archer, Alfred		Dewsbury			0		0	1	0	1
Armstrong,		Newport Mons.
Askern, Thomas	1816	Maltby Yorks.	6/12/1878		24		5	0	0	5
Barlow, Edward	1736	Lancaster	9/12/1812		31	Died
Baxter, Robert Orridge	1877	Hertford	1961		20		44	47	6	97
Berry, James	8/2/1852	Bradford	21/10/1913		8	Sacked	130	0	0	130
Billington, James	Mar-1847	Bolton	13/12/1901		17	Died	151	0	0	151
Billington, John	Early 1880	Bolton	27/28/10/1905		4	Died	16	26	2	44
Billington, Thomas	Early 1873	Bolton	10/01/1902		4	Died	0	20	0	20
Billington, William	1875	Bolton	March 1934		6	Sacked	68	20	0	88
Binns, Bartholomew	c1839	Wakefield	3/11/1911		18	Sacked	11	4	0	15
Botting, James		Brighton	1/10/1837		6
Broadbent, Joseph		Bradford			1		0	5	0	5
Brown, George		Ashton-u-Lyne			8		0	21	0	21
Brunskill, William	c.1742		9/05/1815		28
Burrows, Samuel	28/06/1772		20/10/1835		22
Calcraft, William	1800	Barnet, London	13/12/1879		45	Resigned	41	0	0	41
Cavanagh, Hugh	Worked in Ireland
Chapman, John		Ayr Scotland
Cheshire, Thomas			1840’s
"Chester, Richard"	1848	Bradford			0		0	9	0	9
Coates, James					1
Conduit, William		Manchester			0		0	1	2	3
Critchell, Henry William	6/10/1901	Pimlico			8		0	21	8	29
Cross, Stanley William	9/09/1893	Fulham			8		4	14	6	24
Cunliffe, Thomas		Bolton	1980’s		1	Sacked	0	4	0	4
Curry, William 'John'		Thirsk	10/03/1841		33
de Crespigny, Claude	20/04/1847	Essex	26/06/1935		0		0	3	0	3
Dernley, Sydney	29/12/1920	Mansfield Notts.	1/11/1994		4	Sacked	0	19	4	23
Dickenson, George		Manchester			0		0	0	2	2
Elliott, Josey	Worked in Ireland
Ellis, John	4/10/1874	Rochdale	20/09/1932		23		156	44	2	202
Evans, Robert		Carmarthenshire	26/08/1901		1		7	2	0	9
Fallon,					0		1	0	0	1
Far, George
Foxen, James	c1768	Hoxton	14/02/1829
Fry, William		Weymouth			0		0	1	0	1
Galvin, Thomas	Worked in Ireland
Heath, Samuel		Wakefield			0		0	3	0	3
Heywood, Samuel
High, John		Edinburgh	October 1816				40+
Howard, Nathaniel			22/04/1853		13
Incher, George	1831	Dudley	1897		6		3	4	0	7
Japhcote, James		Nuneaton
"Johnston, Thomas"	Worked in Ireland				0		0	1	0	1
Jones,					0		1	0	0	1
Kirk, Henry	23/12/1893	Grimsby	1967		10	Sacked	1	39	8	48
"Lady Betty"	Hang-woman who worked in Roscommon Ireland
Langley, John	c.1767	London		27/04/1817	3	Died
Lee, William				20/11/1827		Died
Lumb, Albert Fowler		Bradford			3		0	10	0	10
McArthur, Archibald		Glasgow		1813	10
McDonald, John		Aberdeen		March 1805	1					0
McQuilkin, Alan	Worked in Ireland
Mann, Lionel S.		Rochdale			5	Resigned	0	10	6	16
Marwood, William	1820	Horncastle Lincolnshire	4/09/1883		11	Died	181	0	0	181
Milne, John		Aberdeen	c1819		9		3
Mills, Seth		Hengoed Glamorgan			2	Resigned	0	6	2	8
Mitchell, George
Mitchell, William (son of George)
Morely, John					0		0	1	0	1
Morris, Herbert	18/02/1888	London			12	Sacked	0	24	2	26
Murdoch, John		Glasgow			4		7
Osman, Joseph		London					0
Otway,
Pedder	Worked in Scotland
Phillips, Thomas Mather	1889	Bolton	27/03/1941		18	Sacked	2	40	11	53
Pierrepoint, Albert	30/03/1905	Clayton	10/07/1992		24	Resigned	169	47	2	218
Pierrepoint, Henry Albert	Mar-1878	Sutton Bonington Notts.	14/12/1922		9	Sacked	75	30	0	105
Pierrepoint, Thomas William	Late 1870	Loughborough	10/02/1954		40	Resigned	261	36	0	297
Plant, Samuel Barrass	30/08/1915	Newcastle-u-Tyne	2002		3	Abolition	0	6	0	6
Pollard, Henry		Blackburn			11		0	24	6	30
Rickard, Royston Lawrence	5/08/1919	Maidstone	June 1999		11	Abolition	0	15	2	17
Riley, Alexander	1/07/1908	Manchester			5		0	15	4	19
Robinson					0		0	6	0	6
Robinson, Harry Frank		Dudley	2006		6	Abolition	0	7	0	7
Rooks	Worked on Guernsey
Ross, Donald	Worked in Inverness in Scotland				22		2
Rowe, Frank	c-1882/3	Birmingham			0		0	1	0	1
Ryan, James	Worked in Limerick, Ireland
Scott, John		Edinburgh	12/08/1847		12	Murdered	4
Scott, Thomas Henry		Huddersfield					17	14	0	31
Simpson, John		Edinburgh			3		2 or 3
Small, Henry
Smith
Smith, George	1805	Dudley	4-April-1874		33	Died	2	4	0	6
Smith, Harold		Doncaster			8		0	17	6	23
Smythe					0		1	0	0	1
Speight					0		0	2	0	2
Stanhouse		Gainsborough			0		1	0	0	1
Stevens					0
Stewart, Robert Leslie	Apr-1918		1-Nov-1989		13	Abolition	6	22	4	32
Sutherland, John		Glasgow	1803		1		3
Tait, Joseph		Dumfries			23	Post abolished	4
Taylor, Edward		Brighton			10		0	27	4	31
Taylor, William		Inverness	1810			Murdered	1
Thomson, John		Ayr				Resigned	1
Tuckwell, J
Underhill, John Edward	1929	Twickenham	Still alive		1	Abolition	0	3	0	3
Vaselin	Worked on Guernsey
Wade, Robert	1849	Bolton			0		0	4	0	4
Wade, Steven	14/12/1887	Doncaster	22-Dec-1956		14	Removed	29	37	2	68
Warbrick, William	1843	Blackburn			17		0	25	0	25
Welsh, Robert	Worked in Aberdeen						9
Williams, John	Worked in Edinburgh						2
Williams, Thomas		Edinburgh		1833			20+
Willis, William	.c-1876	Accrington		Mar-1939	20	Sacked	14	94	5	113
Wilson, Robert		Manchester			17		0	41	6	47
Wagner							1	0	0	1
Wood, James	Worked in Ireland
Young, Thomas		Glasgow			20		57

Names in inverted commas are aliases only – the real name was not disclosed.

There will almost certainly have been more hangmen than have been discovered at present, particularly in Ireland.

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