English & Welsh executions 1900 - 1931

1900

 

 

 

 

Name

Age

Date

Place

Victim(s)

Louisa Masset (f)

33

9th January

Newgate

Manfred Louis Masset (son)

Ada Chard-Williams (f)

24

6th March

Newgate

Selina Ellen Jones 

Henry Grove

26

22nd May

Newgate

Henry Smith

Alfred Highfield

22

17th July

Newgate

Edith Margaret Poole (girlfriend)

William Irwin

61

14th August

Newgate

Catherine Amelia Irwin (wife)

Charles Backhouse

23

16th August

Leeds

P.C. John William Kew

Thomas Mellor

29

16th August

Leeds

Ada & Annie Beecroft (daughters)

William Lacey

29

21st August

Cardiff

Pauline Lacey (wife)

Charles Blewitt

33

28th August

Leeds

Mary Ann Blewitt (wife)

John Charles Parr

19

2nd October

Newgate

Sarah Willett (girlfriend)

William Burrett

35

3rd October

Chelmsford

Ada Gubb Burrett (wife)

Joseph Holden

57

4th December

Manchester

John Dawes (grandson)

John Bowes

50

12th December

Durham

Isabella Bowes (wife)

James Bergin

26

27th December

Liverpool

Margaret Morrison (girlfriend)

 

 

Total - 14 (12 + 2)

 

 

1901

 

 

 

 

Samson Salmon

32

19th February

Newgate

Lucy Smith (cousin)

George Parker (Hill)

23

19th March

Wandsworth

William Pearson

Herbert Bennett

22

21st March

Norwich

Mary Jane Bennett (wife)

Joseph Shufflebotham

38

2nd April

Stafford

Elizabeth Shufflebotham (wife)

Valeri Giovanni

31

9th July

Bodmin

Victor Baileff

Charles Watkins

54

30th July

Maidstone

Frederick Hamilton

Ernest Wickham

30

13th August

Wandsworth

Amy Eugenie Russell (girlfriend)

John Joyce

36

20th August

Birmingham

John Nugent

Marcel Faugeron

23

19th November

Newgate

Hermann Francis Jung

Patrick McKenna

53

3rd December

Manchester

Anna McKenna (wife)

John Miller &

67

7th December

Newcastle

John Ferguson

John Robert Miller

31

John Thompson

38

10th December

Durham

Maggie Ann Lieutand (girlfriend)

Alexander Claydon

43

13th December

Northampton

Louisa Claydon (wife)

John Harrison

31

24th December

Liverpool

Alice Ann Wright (girlfriend)

 

 

Total - 15

 

 

1902

 

 

 

 

Harold Amos Apted

20

18th March

Maidstone

Frances Eliza O'Rourke

Richard Wigley

34

18th March

Shrewsbury

Mary Ellen Bowen (girlfriend)

Arthur Richardson

30

25th March

Hull

Sarah Hebden (aunt)

Charles Robert Earl

56

29th April

Wandsworth

Margaret Pamphilon

George Woolfe

21

6th May

Newgate (last)

Charlotte Cheeseman (girlfriend)

Thomas Marsland

21

20th May

Liverpool

Elizabeth Marsland (wife)

Samuel Middleton

46

15th July

Worcester

Hannah Middleton (wife)

William Churcher

35

22nd July

Winchester

Sophia Jane Hepworth (girlfriend)

John Bedford

41

30th July

Derby

Nancy Price (girlfriend)

William Lane

47

12th August

Stafford

Elizabeth Dyson (girlfriend)

George Hibbs

40

13th August

Wandsworth

Miriam Jane Tye

John MacDonald

24

30th September

Pentonville

Henry Groves

Henry Williams

31

11th November

Pentonville

Margaret Anne Andrew (daughter)

Henry McWiggins

30

2nd December

Manchester

Esther Elizabeth Bedford (girlfriend)

William Chambers

 

4th December

Bedford

Emily Chambers (wife),

47

Mary Oakley (mother in law)

Thomas Barrow

49

9th December

Pentonville

Emily Coates (step daughter/girlfriend)

Jeremiah Callaghan

42

12th December

Usk

Hannah Shea (girlfriend)

Samuel Walton

31

16th December

Durham

Isabella Walton, (wife, Nora Walton,  (daughter) Mrs. Young (mother in law)

Thomas Nicholson

24

16th December

Durham

Mary Ina Stewart

William Brown

42

16th December

Wandsworth

Elizabeth Brown (wife)

William Bolton

44

23rd December

Hull

Jane Elizabeth Allen (girlfriend)

George Place

28

30th December

Warwick

Eliza Chetwynd, Eliza Chetwynd, (mother & daughter) unnamed child by Eliza

 

 

Total - 22

 

 

1903

 

 

 

 

Amelia Sach and

29

3rd February

Holloway

Male baby called Galley (baby farmers)

Annie Walters (f)

54

(1st at Holloway)

William Hughes 

42

17th February 

Ruthin

Jane Hannah Huges (wife)

Edgar Owen 

44

3rd March 

Wandsworth

John William Darby, Beatrice Darby &
Ethel Darby.

Samuel Henry Smith 

45

10th March 

Lincoln

Lucy Margaret Lingard (girlfriend)

George Chapman 

37

7th April 

Wandsworth

Isabella Mary Spink, Elizabeth Taylor, Maud Eliza Marsh (girlfriends)

William Hudson 

26

12th May 

Manchester

Harry Short

Gustav Rau and
Willem Schmidt

28

2nd June 

Liverpool

Alexander MacLeod, Julius Herrson, Patrick Durran, Fred Abrahamson, Captain Alexander Shaw, Gustav Johansen, Alexander Bravo.

30

Charles Howell 

30

7th July 

Chelmsford

Maud Luen (girlfriend)

Samuel Dougal 

57

14th July 

Chelmsford

Camille Cecile Holland (girlfriend)

Thomas Porter and 

29

21st July 

Leicester

PC William Ariel Wilkinson

Thomas Preston

24

Leonard Pachett 

26

28th July 

Lincoln

Sarah Ann Pachett (wife)

William Tuffen 

23

11th August 

Wandsworth

Caroline Tuffen (wife)

Charles Slowe 

28

10th November 

Pentonville

Martha Jane Hardwick 

Edward Palmer 

24

17th November 

Devizes

Esther Swinford (ex girlfriend)

Bernard White 

21

1st December 

Chelmsford

Maud Garrett (ex girlfriend)

Charles Whittaker 

43

2nd December 

Manchester

Eliza Range (girlfriend)

James Duffy 

46

8th December 

Durham

Ellen Newman (girlfriend)

William Haywood 

61

15th December 

Hereford

Jane Haywood (wife)

William Brown and

27

16th December 

Winchester

Esther Atkins 

Thomas Cowdrey

36

Charles Ashton 

19

22nd December 

Hull

Annie Marshall 

John Gallagher and

30

29th December 

Leeds

William Swan (Emily’s husband)

Emily Swann (f)

42

Henry Bertram Starr 

31

29th December 

Liverpool

Mary Hannah Starr (wife)

 

 

Total - 27 (24 + 3)

 

 

1904

 

 

 

 

Sidney George Smith 

23

9th March 

Gloucester

Alice Woodman (girlfriend)

James Clarkson 

19

29th March 

Leeds

Elizabeth Mary Lynas 

Henry Jones 

50

29th March 

Stafford

Mary Elizabeth Gilbert (girlfriend)

Charles Samuel Dyer 

25

5th April 

Birmingham

Martha Eliza Simpson (girlfriend)

William Kirwan 

39

31st May 

Liverpool

Mary Pike (sister in law)

Ping Lun 

43

31st May 

Liverpool

John Go Hing

John Sullivan 

40

12th July 

Pentonville

Dennis Lowthian

Samuel Rowledge 

37

13th July 

Northampton

Alice Foster (girlfriend)

George Breeze 

21

2nd August 

Durham

Margaret Jane Chisholm (girlfriend)

John Thomas Kay 

52

16th August 

Leeds

Jane Hirst (girlfriend)

Samuel Holden 

43

16th August 

Birmingham

Susan Humphries (girlfriend)

Joseph Potter and

35

13th December 

Pentonville

Matilda Emily Farmer 

Charles Wade

22

Edmund Hall

49

20th December 

Leeds

John Dalby (father in law)

Eric Lange

30

21st December 

Cardiff

John Emlyn Jones

Arthur Jeffries

44

29th December 

Leeds

Samuel Barker

 

 

Total - 16

 

 

1905

 

 

 

 

Edward Harrison 

62

28th February 

Wandsworth

Elizabeth Jane Rickus (daughter)

John Hutchinson 

29

29th March 

Nottingham

Albert Matthews

Alfred Bridgeman 

22

26th April 

Pentonville

Catherina Balhard 

Alfred Stratton and

22

23rd May 

Wandsworth

Thomas Farrow, Ann Farrow

Albert Ernest Stratton

20

Alfred John Heal 

22

20th June 

Wandsworth

Ellen Maria Goodspeed (girlfriend)

Ferat Ben Ali 

19

1st August 

Maidstone

Hadjou Idder

William Hancocks 

35

9th August 

Knutsford

Mary Elizabeth Hancocks (daughter)

Arthur Devereux 

 

15th August 

Pentonville 

Beatrice Devereux, (wife) Laurence Rowland Devereux, Evelyn Lancelot Devereux (sons)

Thomas Tattersall 

31

15th August 

Leeds

Rebecca Tattersall (wife)

George Butler 

50

7th November 

Pentonville

Mary Allen (girlfriend)

William Yarnold 

48

5th December 

Worcester

Annie Yarnold (wife)

Henry Perkins 

40

6th December 

Newcastle

Patrick Durkin 

Samuel Curtis 

60

20th December 

Maidstone

Alice Clover (girlfriend)

Frederick Edge 

23

27th December 

Stafford

Francis Walter Evans 

George Smith 

50

28th December 

Leeds

Martha Smith (wife)

John Silk 

30

29th December 

Derby

Mary Fallon (mother)

 

 

Total - 17 

 

 

1906

 

 

 

 

Jack Griffiths

19

27th February 

Manchester

Catherine Garrity (ex girlfriend)

Harold Walters

39

10th April 

Wakefield

Sarah Ann McConnell (girlfriend)

Edward Glynn

26

7th August 

Nottingham

Jane Gamble (ex girlfriend)

Thomas Mouncer

25

9th August 

Wakefield

Elizabeth Baldwin (girlfriend)

Frederick Reynolds

23

13th November 

Wandsworth

Sophie Lovell (ex girlfriend)

Edward Hartigan

58

27th November 

Knutsford

Catherine Hartigan (wife)

Richard Buckham

20

4th December 

Chelmsford

Albert Watson, Emma Watson

Walter Marsh 

39

27th December 

Derby

Eliza Marsh (wife)

 

 

Total - 8

 

 

1907

 

 

 

 

John Davis 

53

1st January 

Warwick

Jane Harrison (girlfriend)

Joseph Jones 

60

26th March

Stafford

Edmund Clarke (son in law)

Edwin James Moore 

33

2nd April 

Warwick

Fanny Adelaide Moore (mother)

William Slack 

47

16th July 

Derby

Lucy Wilson 

Charles Patterson 

37

7th August 

Liverpool

Lillian Jane Charlton (girlfriend)

Richard Brinkley 

53

13th August 

Wandsworth

Richard Beck, Elizabeth Beck 

Rhoda Wills (f)

44

14th August 

Cardiff

Female child (surname Treasure)

William Austin 

31

5th November 

Reading

Unity Annie Butler

William Duddles 

47

20th November 

Lincoln

Catherine Gear

George Stills 

30

13th December 

Cardiff

Rachel Hannah Stills (mother)

 

 

Total - 10 (9 + 1)

 

 

1908

 

 

 

 

Joseph Noble 

48

24th March 

Durham

John Patterson

Robert Lawman

35

24th March 

Durham

Amelia Bell Wood (girlfriend)

John Ramsbottom 

34

12th May 

Manchester

James MacCraw (brother in law)

Fred Ballington 

41

28th July 

Manchester

Ellen Ann Ballington (wife)

Thomas Siddle 

29

4th August 

Hull

Gertrude Siddle (wife)

Matthew Dodds 

44

5th August 

Durham

Mary Jane Dodds (wife)

James Phipps 

21

12th November 

Knutsford

Elizabeth Warburton

James Nicholls 

35

2nd December 

Norwich

Susan Wilson

John Ellwood 

44

3rd December 

Leeds

Thomas Wilkinson

William Bauldry 

41

8th December 

Maidstone

Margaret Bauldry (wife)

Harry Taylor Parker 

32

15th December 

Warwick

Thomas Tompkins 

Patrick Collins 

24

30th December 

Cardiff

Annie Dorothy Lawrence (ex girlfriend)

 

 

Total - 12

 

 

1909

 

 

 

 

John Esmond Murphy

21

6th January

Pentonville

Frederick Schlitte

Jeremiah O'Connor

52

23rd February

Durham

Mary Donnelly

Ernest Hutchinson

24

2nd March

Wakefield

Hannah Maria Whiteley (girlfriend)

Thomas Mead

33

12th March

Leeds

Clara Howell (girlfriend)

Edmund Elliott

19

30th March

Exeter

Clara Jane Hannaford (ex girlfriend)

See Lee

38

30th March

Liverpool

Yun Yap

Joseph Edwin Jones

39

13th April

Stafford

Charlotte Jones (wife)

William Joseph Foy

25

8th May

Swansea

Mary Ann Rees (girlfriend)

Morris Reuben &

23

20th May

Pentonville

William Sproull

Marks Reuben

22

John Edmunds

24

3rd July

Usk

Cecilia Harris

Walter Davis

37

9th July

Wakefield

Hester Harriet Richards (girlfriend)

William Hampton

24

20th July

Bodmin

Emily Tredrea (girlfriend) Last at Bodmin

Mark Shawcross

30

3rd August

Manchester

Emily Ramsbottom (girlfriend)

Julius Wammer

43

10th August

Wandsworth

Cissie Archer 

Madar Lal Dhingra

25

31st August

Pentonville

Sir William Hutt Curzon-Wylie,

Dr. Cawas Lalcaca

John Freeman

46

7th December

Hull

Florence Lily Freeman (sister in law)

Abel Atherton

29

8th December

Durham

Elizabeth Ann Patrick

Samuel Atherley

30

14th December

Nottingham

Matilda Lambert, John Lambert, Annie Lambert, Samuel Lambert

 

 

Total - 19

 

 

1910

 

 

 

 

William Murphy 

49

15th February 

Carnarvon

Gwen Ellen Jones (girlfriend)

Joseph Wren 

23

22nd February 

Manchester

John Collins

George Perry 

27

1st March 

Pentonville

Annie Covell (girlfriend)

Thomas Clements 

62

24th March 

Usk

Charles Thomas, Mary Thomas

Thomas Jesshope 

32

25th May 

Wandsworth

John Healey

James Hancock 

55

14th June 

Cambridge

Alfred Doggett

Thomas Craig 

24

12th July 

Durham

Thomas William Henderson

Frederick Foreman 

45

14th July 

Chelmsford

Elizabeth Ely (girlfriend)

John Raper Coulson 

32

9th August 

Leeds

Jane Ellen Coulson, (wife)

Thomas Coulson (son)

John Dickman 

45

9th August 

Newcastle

John InnesNisbet

Thomas Rawcliffe 

31

15th November 

Lancaster

Louisa Ann Rawcliffe (wife)

Henry Thompson 

54

22nd November 

Liverpool

Mary Thompson (wife)

Hawley Harvey Crippen 

48

23rd November 

Pentonville

Cora Turner (Belle Elmore) (wife)

William Broome 

26

24th November 

Reading

Isabella Wilson

Andrew Noah Woolf 

58

21st December 

Pentonville

Andrew Simon

Henry Ison 

45

29th December 

Leeds

Mary Jenkin (girlfriend)

 

 

Total - 16

 

 

1911

 

 

 

 

George Newton 

19

31st January 

Chelmsford

Ada Roker (girlfriend)

Thomas Seymour 

65

9th May 

Liverpool

Mary Seymour (wife)

Michael Collins 

26

24th May 

Pentonville

Elizabeth Anne Kempster (girlfriend)

Arthur Garrod 

49

20th June 

Ipswich

Sarah Chilvers (girlfriend)

William Palmer 

50

19th July 

Leicester

Ann Harris

Francisco Godhino 

40

17th October 

Pentonville

Alice Emily Brewster 

Edward Hill 

41

17th October