|
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 |
|
|
8 |
Died |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
Allen, Alfred |
|
|
|
9 |
|
3 |
14 |
0 |
17 |
|
|
Allen, Harry Bernard |
|
Denaby Yorks. |
|
23 |
Abolition |
29 |
44 |
9 |
82 |
|
|
Allen, Herbert |
|
|
|
1 |
Sacked |
0 |
6 |
6 |
12 |
|
|
Archer, Alfred |
|
Dewsbury |
|
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Armstrong, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Askern, Thomas |
1816 |
Maltby Yorks. |
|
24 |
|
5 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
|
|
Barlow, Edward |
1736 |
|
|
31 |
Died |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baxter, Robert Orridge |
1877 |
Hertford |
1961 |
20 |
|
44 |
47 |
6 |
97 |
|
|
Berry, James |
|
|
|
8 |
Sacked |
130 |
0 |
0 |
130 |
|
|
Billington, James |
Mar-1847 |
|
|
17 |
Died |
151 |
0 |
0 |
151 |
|
|
Billington, John |
Early 1880 |
|
27/28/10/1905 |
4 |
Died |
16 |
26 |
2 |
44 |
|
|
Billington, Thomas |
Early 1873 |
|
|
4 |
Died |
0 |
20 |
0 |
20 |
|
|
Billington, William |
1875 |
|
March 1934 |
6 |
Sacked |
68 |
20 |
0 |
88 |
|
|
Binns, Bartholomew |
c1839 |
|
|
18 |
Sacked |
11 |
4 |
0 |
15 |
|
|
Botting, James |
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Broadbent, Joseph |
|
|
|
1 |
|
0 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
|
|
Brown, George |
|
Ashton-u-Lyne |
|
8 |
|
0 |
21 |
0 |
21 |
|
|
Brunskill, William |
c.1742 |
|
|
28 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Burrows, Samuel |
|
|
|
22 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Calcraft, William |
1800 |
Barnet, |
|
45 |
Resigned |
41 |
0 |
0 |
41 |
|
|
Cavanagh, Hugh |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Chapman, John |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cheshire, Thomas |
|
|
1840’s |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Chester, Richard" |
1848 |
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
9 |
0 |
9 |
|
|
Coates, James |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Conduit, William |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
Critchell, Henry William |
|
Pimlico |
|
8 |
|
0 |
21 |
8 |
29 |
|
|
Cross, |
|
Fulham |
|
8 |
|
4 |
14 |
6 |
24 |
|
|
Cunliffe, Thomas |
|
|
1980’s |
1 |
Sacked |
0 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
|
|
Curry, William 'John' |
|
Thirsk |
|
33 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
de Crespigny, Claude |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Dernley, Sydney |
|
|
|
4 |
Sacked |
0 |
19 |
4 |
23 |
|
|
Dickenson, George |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
Elliott, Josey |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Ellis, John |
|
|
|
23 |
|
156 |
44 |
2 |
202 |
|
|
Evans, Robert |
|
Carmarthenshire |
|
1 |
|
7 |
2 |
0 |
9 |
|
|
Fallon, |
|
|
|
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Far, George |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foxen, James |
c1768 |
Hoxton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fry, William |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Galvin, Thomas |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Heath, Samuel |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Heywood, Samuel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
High, John |
|
|
October 1816 |
|
|
40+ |
|
|
|
|
|
Howard, Nathaniel |
|
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incher, George |
1831 |
|
1897 |
6 |
|
3 |
4 |
0 |
7 |
|
|
Japhcote, James |
|
Nuneaton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Johnston, Thomas" |
Worked in |
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|||
|
Jones, |
|
|
|
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Kirk, Henry |
|
|
1967 |
10 |
Sacked |
1 |
39 |
8 |
48 |
|
|
"Lady Betty" |
Hang-woman who worked in Roscommon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Langley, John |
c.1767 |
|
|
3 |
Died |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lee, William |
|
|
|
|
Died |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lumb, Albert Fowler |
|
|
|
3 |
|
0 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
|
|
McArthur, Archibald |
|
|
1813 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
McDonald, John |
|
|
March 1805 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
McQuilkin, Alan |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Mann, Lionel S. |
|
|
|
5 |
Resigned |
0 |
10 |
6 |
16 |
|
|
Marwood, William |
1820 |
Horncastle Lincolnshire |
|
11 |
Died |
181 |
0 |
0 |
181 |
|
|
Milne, John |
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
12 |
Sacked |
0 |
24 |
2 |
26 |
|
|
Murdoch, John |
|
|
|
4 |
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
Osman, Joseph |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Otway, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pedder |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Phillips, Thomas Mather |
1889 |
|
|
18 |
Sacked |
2 |
40 |
11 |
53 |
|
|
Pierrepoint, Albert |
|
Clayton |
|
24 |
Resigned |
169 |
47 |
2 |
218 |
|
|
Pierrepoint, Henry Albert |
Mar-1878 |
Sutton Bonington Notts. |
|
9 |
Sacked |
75 |
30 |
0 |
105 |
|
|
Pierrepoint, Thomas William |
Late 1870 |
Loughborough |
|
40 |
Resigned |
261 |
36 |
0 |
297 |
|
|
Plant, Samuel Barrass |
|
Newcastle-u-Tyne |
2002 |
3 |
Abolition |
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
|
|
Pollard, Henry |
|
|
|
11 |
|
0 |
24 |
6 |
30 |
|
|
Rickard, Royston Lawrence |
|
|
June 1999 |
11 |
Abolition |
0 |
15 |
2 |
17 |
|
|
Riley, Alexander |
|
|
|
5 |
|
0 |
15 |
4 |
19 |
|
|
Robinson |
|
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
|
|
Robinson, Harry Frank |
|
|
2006 |
6 |
Abolition |
0 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
|
|
Rooks |
Worked on |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Ross, Donald |
Worked in |
22 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|||
|
Rowe, Frank |
c-1882/3 |
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Ryan, James |
Worked in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Scott, John |
|
|
|
12 |
Murdered |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
Scott, Thomas Henry |
|
|
|
|
|
17 |
14 |
0 |
31 |
|
|
Simpson, John |
|
|
|
3 |
|
2 or 3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Small, Henry |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Smith |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Smith, George |
1805 |
|
|
33 |
Died |
2 |
4 |
0 |
6 |
|
|
Smith, Harold |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
13 |
Abolition |
6 |
22 |
4 |
32 |
|
|
Sutherland, John |
|
|
1803 |
1 |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Tait, Joseph |
|
|
|
23 |
Post abolished |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
Taylor, Edward |
|
|
|
10 |
|
0 |
27 |
4 |
31 |
|
|
Taylor, William |
|
|
1810 |
|
Murdered |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Thomson, John |
|
|
|
|
Resigned |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Tuckwell, J |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Underhill, John Edward |
1929 |
Twickenham |
Still alive |
1 |
Abolition |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Vaselin |
Worked on |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||