{"id":4076,"date":"2015-05-13T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murderresearch.com\/?page_id=4076"},"modified":"2015-05-13T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:03:52","slug":"georgian-trials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldbritishnews.com\/murder\/georgian-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a list of some trials in Britain between 1740 and 1837.<\/p>\n<p>This is not, of course, a definitive inventory. It is likely that details of the case were reported in the news. If you can find the name you are searching please make contact by using the enquiry form. I will see if any archive material is available. If you cannot find the person you are searching don\u2019t worry \u2013 please enquire anyway. I will do a search and get back to you.<\/p>\n<p>The data for these British trial pages is sourced from references more than 100 years old and took a long time to transcribe and digitise for the internet. They make fascinating reading and create temptation for us to find out more. They cover all life from murder to executions, libel, slander, bankruptcy, love affairs, divorce, wills, land disputes &#8211; it&#8217;s all there for us to discover and read about in the newspapers generations on.<\/p>\n<p>I have transcribed these pages as faithfully as possible with little change to the language and style. I have taken time-out to remove any references that, today, we might find racist or offensive (as language and attitudes towards life has changed dramatically since the days of these court proceedings).<\/p>\n<p>William Buell, executed for murder at Tyburn, but who came to life when about undergoing dissection at Surgeons&#8217; Hall, 24 Nov, 1740<\/p>\n<p>Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino for high treason, 28 July, 1746<\/p>\n<p>Mary Hamilton, for marrying with her own sex, 14 wives, 7 Oct, 1746<\/p>\n<p>Lord Lovatt, 8o years of age, for high treason, beheaded, 9 March, 1747<\/p>\n<p>Freney, the celebrated Irish robber, who surrendered himself, 9 July, 1749<\/p>\n<p>Amy Hutchinson, burnt at Ely, for the murder of her husband, 5 Nov, 1750<\/p>\n<p>Miss Blandy, the murder of her father (hanged), 3 March, 1752<\/p>\n<p>Ann Williams, for the murder of her husband, burnt alive, 11 April, 1753<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Aram, for murder at York, executed, 13 Aug, 1759<\/p>\n<p>Earl Ferrers, for the murder of his steward, executed, 16 April, 1760<\/p>\n<p>Mr, MacNaughten, at Strabane, for the murder of Miss Knox, 8 Dec, 1761<\/p>\n<p>Ann Bedingfield, for the murder of her husband burnt alive, 6 April, 1763<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Wilkes, alderman of London, for an obscene poem (&#8221; Essay on Woman &#8220;), 21 Feb, 1764<\/p>\n<p>Murderers of captain Glas his wife daughter mate and passengers on board the ship <em>Earl of<\/em> <em>Sandwich, <\/em>at sea, 3 March, 1766<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Brownrigg, for the murder of one of her female apprentices, hanged, 12 Sept, 1767<\/p>\n<p>Lord Baltimore, the libertine and his female accomplices, for rape, 28 March, 1763<\/p>\n<p>Great cause between the families of Hamilton and Douglas 27 Feb, 1769<\/p>\n<p>Great Valencia cause in the house of peers in Ireland, 18 March, 1772<\/p>\n<p>Cause of Somerset the slave, 22 June, 1772<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Herring, for the murder of her husband hanged and afterwards burnt at Tyburn, 13 Sept, 1772<\/p>\n<p>Perreau brothers, bankers forgery hanged, 17 Jan, 1776<\/p>\n<p>Duchess of Kingston, for marrying two husbands guilty, 15 April, 1776<\/p>\n<p>Dr, Dodd, for forging a bond of \u00a3420, in the name of the earl of Chesterfield executed, 27 June, 1777<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Keppel, by court-martial honourably acquitted, 11 Feb, 1779<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hackman, for the murder of Miss Reay when coming out of the theatre-royal Covent-garden, 16 April, 1779<\/p>\n<p>Lord George Gordon, on a charge of high treason acquitted, 5 Feb, 1781<\/p>\n<p>Captain John Donellan, for murder of sir Theodosius Boughton executed, 2 April, 1781<\/p>\n<p>Mr Woodfall, the celebrated printer for a libel on lord Loughborough afterwards lord chancellor, 10 Nov, 1786<\/p>\n<p>Lord George Gordon, for a libel on the queen of France guilty, 28 Jan, 1788<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Warren Hastings, a trial which lasted seven years and three months commenced, 13 Feb, 1788<\/p>\n<p>The printer of <em>the Times <\/em>newspaper, for libels on the prince of Wales and dukes of York and Clarence fined \u00a3200 and imprisoned one year, 3 Feb, 1790<\/p>\n<p>Renwick Williams, called the \u201cMonster&#8221; for stabbing women in London , 8 July, 1790<\/p>\n<p>Barrington, the pickpocket, most extraordinary adept, transported, 22 Sept, 1790<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Paine, political writer and deist, for libels in the <em>Rights of Man, <\/em>guilty , 18 Dec, 1792<\/p>\n<p>Archibald Hamilton Rowan for libel imprisoned and fined , 29 Jan, 1794<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Purefoy, for the murder of colonel Roper in a duel , acquitted, 14 Aug,, 1794<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Robert Watt and Downie, at Edinburgh for treason, 3 Sept, 1794<\/p>\n<p>Hardy Home Tooke Thelwall and Joyce, for high treason, acquitted, 29 Oct, 1794<\/p>\n<p>Earl of Abingdon, for his libel on Mr, Serman, guilty, 6 Dec, 1794<\/p>\n<p>Major Semple <em>alias <\/em>Lisle, for felony, 18 Feb, 1795<\/p>\n<p>Redhead Yorke, at York, libel , 27 Nov, 1795<\/p>\n<p>Lord Westmeath v Bradshaw, for criminal damages, \u00a310,000, 4 March, 1796<\/p>\n<p>Lord Valentia v Mr Gawler, for adultery damages \u00a32,000, 16 June, 1796<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Isaac Eaton, for libels on kingly government guilty, 8 July, 1796<\/p>\n<p>Sir Godfrey Webster v lord Holland, for adultery damages \u00a3600, 27 Feb, 1797<\/p>\n<p>Parker, the mutineer at the Nore called admiral , 27 June, 1797<\/p>\n<p>Boddington v Boddington, for criminal damages \u00a310000, 5 Sept, 1797<\/p>\n<p>William Orr at Carrickfergus, for high, Treason, executed, 12 Oct, 1797<\/p>\n<p>Mrs, Phepoe, <em>alias <\/em>Benson murderess, 9 Dec, 1797<\/p>\n<p>The murderers of col, St George and Mr Uniacke, at Cork, 15 April, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Arthur O&#8217;Connor and O&#8217;Coigley, at Maidstone, for treason latter hanged, 21 May, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Sir Edward Crosbie and others for high treason hanged, 1 June, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey, at Wexford, for high treason, 21 June, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Sheares, at Dublin, for high treason, executed, 12 July, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Theobald Woulffe Tone, by court-martial he committed suicide, 10 Nov, 1798<\/p>\n<p>Sir Harry Brown Hayes, for carrying off Miss Pike of Cork 13 April, 1800<\/p>\n<p>Hatfield, for shooting at George III, 26 June, 1800<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Tighe of Westmeath v Jones, for damages \u00a310000, 2 Dec, 1800<\/p>\n<p>Mutineers at Bantry Bay, hanged, 8 Jan, 1802<\/p>\n<p>Governor Wall, for cruelty and murder twenty years before , 20 Jan, 1802<\/p>\n<p>Crawley, for the murder of two females in Peter&#8217;s-row, Dublin, 6 March, 1802<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Despard and his associates, for high treason hanged on the top of Horsemonger-lane gaol, 7 Feb, 1803<\/p>\n<p>M Peltier, for libel on Bonaparte first consul of France, in <em>l&#8217;Ambigue <\/em>guilty, 21 Feb, 1803<\/p>\n<p>Robert Aslett, cashier at the bank of England for embezzlement and frauds the loss to the bank \u00a3320000 found <em>not guilty <\/em>on account of the invalidity of the bills , 18 July, 1803<\/p>\n<p>Robert Emmett, at Dublin, for high treason executed next day, 19 Sept, 1803<\/p>\n<p>Keenan, one of the murderers of lord Kilwarden hanged, 2 Oct, 1803<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Smith, for the murder of the supposed Hammersmith Ghost, 13 Jan, 1804<\/p>\n<p>Lockhart and Laudon Gordon for carrying off Mrs Lee, 6 March, 1804<\/p>\n<p>Rev C Massy v marquis of Headfort, for damages, \u00a310000, 27 July, 1804<\/p>\n<p>William Cooper, the Hackney Monster for offences against females, 17 April, 1805<\/p>\n<p>General Picton, for applying the torture to Louisa Calderon to extort confession at Trinidad, tried (under 42 Geo, III, c, 85) in the court of King&#8217;s Bench, guilty [new trial, same verdict, II June, 1808], 24 Feb, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Patch, for the murder of his partner, Mr Bligh, 6 April, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Lord Melville, impeached by the House of Commons acquitted, 12 June, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Rowan, in Dublin, pleaded the king&#8217;s pardon, 1 July, 1806<\/p>\n<p>The Warrington gang, for unnatural offences executed, 23 Aug, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Palm, the bookseller, by a French military commission at Brennau, 26 Aug, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Judge Johnson, for a libel on the earl of Hardwicke guilty, 23 Nov, 1806<\/p>\n<p>Lord Cloncurry v Sir John B, Piers for damages \u00a320000, 19 Feb, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Holloway and Haggerty, the murderers of Mr, Steele thirty persons were crushed to death at their execution at the Old Bailey, 20 Feb, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Sir Home Popham, by court-martial repri\u00admanded, 7 March, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Knight v Dr, Wolcot, alias Peter Pindar for criminal conviction, 27 June, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Lieut Berry, of HMS Hazard, for an unnatural offence, 2 Oct, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Lord Elgin v Ferguson, for damages \u00a310000, 22 Dec, 1807<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, the murderer of the Boreham family at Hoddesdon, 4 March, 1808<\/p>\n<p>Sir Arthur Paget, for crime with Lady Borrington, 24 July, 1808<\/p>\n<p>Major Campbell, for killing Captain Boyd in a duel hanged, 4 Aug, 1808<\/p>\n<p>Peter Finnerty and others, for a libel on the duke of York, 9 Nov, 1808<\/p>\n<p>The duke of York, by inquiry in the house of commons on charges preferred against him by colonel Wardle from 26 Jan to 20 March , 1809<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley v Lord Paget, for damages, \u00a320000, 22 May, 1809<\/p>\n<p>The king v Valentine Jones, for breach of duty as commissary-general, 26 May, 1809<\/p>\n<p>Wright v colonel Wardle, for Mrs, Mary Ann Clarke&#8217;s furniture, 2 June, 1809<\/p>\n<p>The earl of Leicester v Morning Herald, for a libel damages \u00a31000, 29 June, 1809<\/p>\n<p>William Cobbett, for a libel on the German legion convicted, 9 July, 1809<\/p>\n<p>Hon, captain Lake, for putting Robert Jeffery a British seaman on shore at Sombrero dismissed the service, 10 Feb, 1810<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Perry for libels in the Morning Chronicle acquitted, 24 Feb, 1810<\/p>\n<p>The Vere-street gang, for unnatural offences guilty, 20 Sept, 1810<\/p>\n<p>Peter Finnerty, for a libel on Lord Castlereagh, 31 Jan, 1811<\/p>\n<p>The king v Messrs John and Leigh Hunt for libels guilty, 22 Feb, 1811<\/p>\n<p>Ensign Hepburn and White the drummer, both were executed, 7 March, 1811<\/p>\n<p>Walter Cox, in Dublin, for libels, he stood in the pillory, 22 March, 1811<\/p>\n<p>The king v W Cobbett, for libels, convicted 25 June, 1811<\/p>\n<p>Lord Louth, in Dublin sentenced to imprison\u00adment and fine for oppressive conduct as a ma\u00adgistrate 19 June, 1811<\/p>\n<p>The Berkeley cause, before the house of peers concluded, 28 June, 1811<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sheridan, physician on a charge of sedition acquitted, 21 Nov, 1811<\/p>\n<p>Gale Jones, for seditious and blasphemous libels convicted, 26 Nov, 1811<\/p>\n<p>William Cundell and John Smith, for high treason, 6 Feb, 1812<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Isaac Eaton, on a charge of blasphemy convicted 6 March, 1812<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham, for the murder of Mr, Perceval the prime minister 15 May, 1812<\/p>\n<p>The king v Mr Lovell, of <em>The Statesman<\/em> for libel guilty, 29 Nov, 1812<\/p>\n<p>Messrs John and Leigh Hunt, for libels in <em>The Examiner<\/em> convicted, 9 Dec, 1812<\/p>\n<p>Marquis of Sligo, for concealing a sea-deserter, 16 Dec, 1812<\/p>\n<p>The murderers of Mr Horsfall at York exe\u00adcuted, 7 Jan, 1813<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Hugh Fitzpatrick, for publishing Scully&#8217;s History of the Penal Laws , 6 Feb, 1813<\/p>\n<p>The divorce cause against the duke of Hamilton for adultery, 11 April, 1813<\/p>\n<p>Mr, John Magee, in Dublin for libels in the <em>Evening Post<\/em> guilty, 26 July, 1813<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson, the murderer of Mr, and Mrs Bonar hanged, 21 Aug, 1813<\/p>\n<p>Tuite, murder of Mr Goulding executed, 7 Oct, 1813<\/p>\n<p>The celebrated Mary Ann Clark, for a libel on the Right Honerable William Vesey Fitzgerald afterwards lord Fitzgerald, 7 Feb, 1814<\/p>\n<p>Lord Cochrane Cochrane Johnstone Berenger Butt and others for frauds in the public funds, 22 Feb, convicted, 8 June, 1814<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Bradley, at Winchester for frauds in ship letters, 18 Aug, 1814<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Quentin, of the 10th Hussars by court-martial , 1 Nov, 1814<\/p>\n<p>Sir John Henry Mildmay, bart for criminal covictions with the countess of Rosebery damages \u00a315000, 5 Dec, 1814<\/p>\n<p>George Barnett, for shooting at Miss Kelly of Covent Garden theatre, 8 April, 1816<\/p>\n<p>Captain Hutchinson sir Robert Wilson and Mr Bruce, in Paris for aiding the escape of count Lavalette , 24 April, 1816<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Captain Grant,&#8221; the famous Irish robber at Maryborough, 16 Aug, 1816<\/p>\n<p>Vaughan a police officer Mackay and Browne, for conspiracy to induce men to commit felonies to obtain the reward, convicted, 21 Aug, 1816<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Stanhope, by court-martial, at Cambray in France, 23 Sept, 1816<\/p>\n<p>Cashman, a seaman, for the Spafields riots and outrages on Snowhill convicted and hanged, 20 Jan, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Count Maubreuil, at Paris for robbing the queen of Westphalia, 2 May, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Mr RJ Butt, for a libel on lord chief-justice Ellenborough, 23 May, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wooler, for libels on the government and ministers, 6 June, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Thistlewood Dr Watson Hooper and others, for treason 9 June, 1817<\/p>\n<p>The murderers of the Lynch family at Wildgoose\u00adlodge, Ireland, 19 July, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Roger O&#8217;Connor, on a charge of robbing the mail acquitted, 5 Aug, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Brandreth Turner and others, at Derby for high treason, 15 Oct, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Hone, the bookseller, for parodies three trials before Lord Ellenborough extemporaneous and successful defence, 18 Dec, 1817<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dick, for abduction and rape of Miss Crockatt, 21 March, 1818<\/p>\n<p>Appeal of murder case Ashford the brother of Mary Ashford, against Abraham Thornton accused of her murder and acquitted 16 April, 1818<\/p>\n<p>Rev Dr O&#8217;Halloran, for forging a frank, 9 Sept, 1818<\/p>\n<p>Robert Johnston, at Edinburgh his dreadful execution, 30 Dec, 1818<\/p>\n<p>Sir Manasseh Lopez, for bribery at Grampound, 18 March, 1819<\/p>\n<p>Mosely Woolfe and other merchants, for conspiracy and fraud, 20 April, 1819<\/p>\n<p>Carlile, for the publication of Paine&#8217;s Age of Reason, 15 Oct, 1819<\/p>\n<p>John Scanlan, at Limerick, for murder of Ellen Hanly, 14 March, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Sir, Francis Burdett, at Leiceste for a seditious libel, 23 March, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Henry Hunt and others, for their conduct at the Manchester Reform meeting Reform Meeting, 27 March, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Sir Charles Wolseley and Rev Mr Harrison, for sedition guilty, 10 April, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Thistlewood Ings Brunt Davidson and Tidd, for conspiracy to murder the king&#8217;s ministers commenced, 17 April, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Louvel, in France for the murder of the duke de Berri, 7 June, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Lord Glerawley v John Burn, 18 June, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Major Cartwright and others at Warwick, for sedi\u00adtion, 3 Aug, 1820<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Little Waddington,&#8221; for a seditious libel, acquitted, 19 Sept, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant-colonel French, 6th dragoon guards by court-martial, 19 Sept, 1820<\/p>\n<p>Caroline queen of England, before the house of lords for adultery commenced 16 Aug it terminated 10 Nov, 1820<\/p>\n<p>The female murderers of Miss Thompson, in Dublin, hanged, 1 May, 1821<\/p>\n<p>David Haggart, an extraordinary robber and a man of singularly eventful life at Edinburgh for the murder of a turnkey, 9 June, 1821<\/p>\n<p>Samuel D Hayward, the favourite man of fashion for burglary, 8 Oct, 1821<\/p>\n<p>The murderers of Mrs, Torrance, in Ireland convicted and hanged, 17 Dec, 1821<\/p>\n<p>Cussen Leahy and others, for the abduction of Miss Gould, 29 July, 1822<\/p>\n<p>Barthelemi, in Paris, for the abduction of Elizabeth Florence, 23 Sept, 1822<\/p>\n<p>Cuthbert v Browne, singular action for deceit, 28 Jan, 1823<\/p>\n<p>The famous \u201cBottle Conspirators,&#8221; in Ireland, by ex-officio, 23 Feb, 1823<\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary &#8221; earl of Portsmouth&#8217;s case &#8221; commenced, 18 March, 1823<\/p>\n<p>Probert Hunt and Thurtell, murderers of Mr Weare Probert turned king&#8217;s evidence after\u00adwards hanged for horse-stealing, 5 Jan, 1824<\/p>\n<p>Mr Henry Fauntleroy, banker of London, for for\u00adgery, hanged, 30 Oct, 1824<\/p>\n<p>Foote v Hayne, for breach of promise of marriage damages \u00a33000, 22 Dec, 1824<\/p>\n<p>Mr Henry Savary, a banker&#8217;s son at Bristol for forgery, 4 April, 1825<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Keefe and Bourke, murderers of the Franks family, 18 Aug, 1825<\/p>\n<p>The case of Mr Wellesley Pole and the Misses Long, commenced, 9 Nov, 1825<\/p>\n<p>Captain Bligh v the honerable William Wellesley Pole for adultery, 25 Nov, 1825<\/p>\n<p>Fisher v Stockdale, for libel in <em>Harriette Wilson<\/em>, 20 March, 1826<\/p>\n<p>Edward Gibbon Wakefield and others, for abduc\u00adtion of Miss Turner, 24 March, 1827<\/p>\n<p>Rev, Robert Taylor for blasphemy found guilty, 24 Oct, 1827<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gillan, or the murder of Maria Bagster at Taunton, 8 April, 1828<\/p>\n<p>Mr Montgomery, for forgery he committed suicide in prison on the morning appointed for his execution 4 July, 1828<\/p>\n<p>Brinklett, for the death of lord Mount Sandford by a kick, 16 July, 1828<\/p>\n<p>William Corder, for murder of Maria Marten, executed, 6 Aug, 1828<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Hunton, a quaker merchant for forgery hanged, 28 Oct, 1828<\/p>\n<p>Burke, at Edinburgh for the Burking murders Hare his accomplice became approver, 24 Dec, 1828<\/p>\n<p>The king v Buxton and others, for fraudulent marriage, 21 March, 1829<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Martin, for setting fire to York minster, 31 March, 1829<\/p>\n<p>Stewart and his wife, noted murderers at Glasgow hanged 14 July, 1829<\/p>\n<p>Reinbauer, the Bavarian priest for murders of women, 4 Aug, 1829<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dickenson, by court-martial at Ports\u00admouth acquitted, 26 Aug, 1829<\/p>\n<p>Mr Alexander, editor of the <em>Morning Journal<\/em> for libels on the duke of Wellington, convicted 10 Feb, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Clune, at Ennis for cutting out the tongues of the Doyles, 4 March, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Mr Comyn, for burning his house in the county of Clare hanged, 6 March, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Mr, Lambrecht, for murder of Mr Clayton in a duel, 2 April, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Captain Moir, for murder of William Malcolm hanged, 30 July, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Captains Smith and Markham, for killing Mr O&#8217;Grady in a duel, 24 Aug, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Captain Helsham, for murder of lieut Crowther in a duel, 8 Oct, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Mr St John Long, for manslaughter of Miss Cashin, 3o Oct, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Polignac Peyronnet and others, ministers of France, 21 Dec, 1830<\/p>\n<p>Richard Carlile, for a seditious libel, inciting to a riot guilty, 10 Jan, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Mr D O&#8217;Connell, for breach of proclamation pleaded guilty, 12 Feb, 1831<\/p>\n<p>St John Long, for manslaughter of Mrs, Lloyd, 19 Feb, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Major Dundas, for the seduction of Miss Adams damages \u00a33000, 26 May, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Rev, Robert Taylor (who obtained the revolting distinction of &#8221; the Devil&#8217;s Chaplain&#8221;), for reviling the redeemer convicted, 6 July, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cobbett, for a seditious libel the jury could not agree, 7 July, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Mr, and Mrs, Deacle v Mr Bingham Baring MP, 14 July, 1831<\/p>\n<p>John Any Bird Bell, 14 years of age for the murder of Richard Taylor aged 13 hanged at Maidstone, 1 Aug, 1831<\/p>\n<p>The great cause, earl of Kingston v lord Lorton commenced, 9 Nov, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Bishop and Williams, for murder of the Italian boy, 3 Dec, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Earl of Mar, in Scotland, for shooting at Mr, Oldham 17 Dec, 1831<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Cooke, for murder of Mrs Walsh by &#8221; Burking&#8221;, 6 Jan, 1832<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Brereton, by court-martial at Bristol, 9 Jan, 1832<\/p>\n<p>The murderers of Mr Blood of Applevale county of Clare, 28 Feb, 1832<\/p>\n<p>William Duggan, at Cork for murder of his wife and others, 26 March, 1832<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hodgson (son of the celebrated Miss Aston) v Greene, 26 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Roos v Cumming, for defamation, charg\u00ading lord de Roos with cheating at cards verdict in favour of Mr Cumming, 9 Feb, 1837<\/p>\n<p>James Greenacre and Sarah Gale, for the murder of Hannah Browne Greenacre convicted and hanged Gale transported, 10 April, 1837<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Georgian Trials in Britain &#8211; British legal system &#8211; 1700&#8217;s, 1800&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a list of some trials in Britain between 1740 and 1837. 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