This is a list of some trials in Britain between 1837 and 1849.<\/p>\n
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
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 – it’s all there for us to discover and read about in the newspapers generations on.<\/p>\n
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
Bolam, for murder of Mr Millie verdict man\u00adslaughter, 30 July, 1837<\/p>\n
Rev Mr Stephens, at Chester for inflammatory language, 5 Aug, 1837<\/p>\n
John Frost, an ex-magistrate and others for high treason guilty sentence commuted to transportation, 31 Dec, 1837<\/p>\n
Benjamin Courvoisier, for murder of lord William Russell hanged, 18 June, 1840<\/p>\n
Gould, for murder of Mr Templeman transported, 22 June, 1840<\/p>\n
Edward Oxford, attempted the life of the queen adjudged insane and confined in Bethlehem, 10 July, 1840<\/p>\n
Madame Lefarge, in France for the murder of her husband guilty, 2 Sept, 1840<\/p>\n
Captain J W Reynolds, 11th hussars by court-martial guilty the sentence excited great popu\u00adlar displeasure against his colonel lord Cardigan, 20 Oct, 1840<\/p>\n
Lord Cardigan, before the house of peers capitally charged for wounding captain Harvey Tucket in a duel acquitted, 16 Feb, 1841<\/p>\n
The Wallaces, brothers merchants for having wil\u00adfully caused the destruction of the ship Dryad at sea to defraud the underwriters transported, 4 March, 1841<\/p>\n
Josiah Mister, for attempting the life of Mr Mackreth guilty, 23 March, 1841<\/p>\n
Bartholomew Murray, at Chester for the murder of Mrs Cook, 5 April, 1841<\/p>\n
Earl Waldegrave and captain Duff, for an aggra\u00advated assault on a police constable guilty judg\u00adment six months’ imprisonment and fines of \u00a3200 and \u00a320 3 May, 1841<\/p>\n
Madame Lefarge again for robbery of diamonds, 7 Aug, 1841<\/p>\n
The great case Allen Bogle v Mr Lawson, pub\u00adlisher of The<\/em> Times<\/em> newspaper for an alleged libel in stating the plaintiff to be connected with numerous bank forgers throughout Europe in their schemes to defraud Messrs Glyn and Com\u00adpany bankers of London by means of fictitious letters of credit damages one farthing This exposure so honourable to The Times<\/em> led to The Times<\/em> Testimonial, 16 Aug, 1841<\/p>\n Mr MacLeod, at Utica America for taking part in the destruction of the Caroline<\/em> commenced acquitted after a trial that lasted eight days, 4 Oct, 1841<\/p>\n Robert Blakesley, for murder of Mr Burdon of Eastcheap hanged, 28 Oct, 1841<\/p>\n Mr Beaumont Smith for forgery of Exchequer bills to an immense amount he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life, 4 Dec, 1841<\/p>\n Sophia Darbon v Rosser, breach of promise of marriage damages \u00a31600, 8 Dec, 1841<\/p>\n Mr John Levick and Antonio Matte, principal and second in the duel in which lieut Adams was killed at Malta both acquitted, 10 March, 1842<\/p>\n Vivier courier of the Morning Herald<\/em> at Boulogne for conveying the Indian mail through France for that journal contrary to the French regula\u00adtions, 13 April, 1842<\/p>\n Daniel Good, for murder of Jane Jones the Roe\u00adhampton murder found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, 13 May, 1842<\/p>\n John Francis for attempting to assassinate the queen, 7 June, 1842<\/p>\n Thomas Cooper, for the murder of Daly the police\u00adman hanged, 4 July, 1842<\/p>\n Nicholas Suisse, valet of the late marquis of Hert\u00adford at the prosecution of that nobleman’s executors charged with enormous frauds acquitted, 6 July, 1842<\/p>\n M `Gill and others, for abduction of Miss Crellin guilty, 8 Aug, 1842<\/p>\n Nicholas Suisse, again upon like charges and again acquitted 24 Aug, 1842<\/p>\n Bean, for pointing a pistol at the queen a months’ imprisonment, 25 Aug, 1842<\/p>\n The rioters, in the provinces under a special com\u00admission at Stafford, 1 Oct, 1842<\/p>\n The Cheshire rioters, under a special commission before lord Abinger, 6 Oct, 1842<\/p>\n The Lancashire rioters, also under a special com\u00admission, 20 Oct, 1842<\/p>\n Alice Lowe, at the prosecution of lord Frankfort acquitted, 31 Oct, 1842<\/p>\n Mr Howard, attorney v sir William Gosset ser\u00adjeant-at-arms, 5 Dec, 1842<\/p>\n Mr Egan, in Dublin for the robbery of a bank parcel acquitted, 17 Jan, 1843<\/p>\n Rev W Bailey LLD, for forgery guilty trans\u00adportation for life, 1 Feb, 1843<\/p>\n MacNaughten, for the murder of Mr Drummond secretary to sir Robert Peel acquitted on the ground of insanity, 4 March, 1843<\/p>\n The Rebeccaites, at Cardiff under a special com\u00admission, 27 Oct, 1843<\/p>\n Samuel Sidney Smith, for forgery sentenced to transportation for life, 29 Nov, 1843<\/p>\n Edward Dwyer, for the murder of his child at Southwark guilty, 1 Dec, 1843<\/p>\n Mr Holt, of the Age<\/em> libel on the duke of Brunswick guilty, 29 Jan, 1844<\/p>\n Lieut Grant, second to lieut Munro in his duel with col Fawcett acquitted, 14 Feb, 1844<\/p>\n Fraser v Bagley, for criminal conviction verdict for the defendant, 19 Feb, 1844<\/p>\n Lord William Paget v earl of Cardigan for criminal conviction, verdict for defendant, 26 Feb, 1844<\/p>\n Mary Furley for the murder of her child in an agony of despair, 16 April, 1844<\/p>\n The will-forgers William Henry Barber (since de\u00adclared innocent) Joshua Fletcher Georgiana Sir Home Popham by court-martial repri\u00admanded 7 March, 1844 all found guilty 15 April sentenced 22 April 1844 [In 1848 Mr Barber returned to England with a free pardon and an acknowledgment of his inno\u00adcence by his prosecutors he was re-admitted to practise as an attorney and on the 3rd of August 1859 in conformity with the recom\u00admendation of a select committee of the house of commons the sum of \u00a35000 was voted him “as a national acknowledgment of the wrong he had suffered from an erroneous prosecution”]<\/p>\n Crouch for the murder of his wife found guilty 8 May hanged, 27 May 1844<\/p>\n O’Connell senior O’Connell junior Steele Ray Barrett Grey Duffy and rev Thomas Tierney at Dublin for political conspiracy the trial commenced 15 Jan and lasted twenty-four days all the traversers were found guilty 12 Feb Proceedings on motions for a new trial &c ex\u00adtended the case into Easter term and sentence was pronounced upon all but the clergyman on whom judgment was remitted, 30 May, 1844<\/p>\n Augustus Mamas, for the murder of Sarah Macfarlane guilty, 14 June, 1844<\/p>\n Wm Burton Newenham, for the abduction of Miss Wortham guilty, 17 June, 1844<\/p>\n Bellamy, for the murder of his wife by prussic acid acquitted, 21 Aug, 1844<\/p>\n John Tawell, for murder of Sarah Hart hanged, 14 March, 1845<\/p>\n Thomas Henry Hocker, for murder of James De\u00adlarue, 11 April, 1845<\/p>\n Joseph Connor, for murder of Mary Brothers, 16 May, 1845<\/p>\n The Spanish pirates, for murder of ten Englishmen at sea, 26 July, 1845<\/p>\n Rev Dr Wetherall, for criminal conviction with Mrs Cooke his own daughter, 16 Aug, 1845<\/p>\n Captain Johnson, of the ship Tory<\/em> for the murder of several of his crew, 5 Feb, 1846<\/p>\n Miss M A Smith v earl Ferrers, breach of promise of marriage, 18 Feb, 1846<\/p>\n Lieut Hawkey, for the murder of Mr Seton in a duel acquitted, 16 July, 1846<\/p>\n Richard Dunn, for perjury and attempted fraud on Miss A Burdett Coutts, 27 Feb, 1847<\/p>\n Mitchell, the Irish confederate transported for 14 years, 26 May, 1848<\/p>\n Wm Smith O’Brien Meagher and other confede\u00adrates sentenced to death the sentence after\u00adwards commuted to transportation (pardoned in 1856), 9 Oct, 1848<\/p>\n Bloomfield Rush, for murder of Messrs Jermy at Norwich hanged, 29 March, 1849<\/p>\n Gorham v the bishop of Exeter, ecclesiastical case judgment given in the court of Arches against the plaintiff 2 Aug, 1849 [The bishop had refused to institute the rev Mr Gorham into the living of Brampton-Speke in Devonshire alleging want of orthodoxy in the plaintiff who denied that spiritual regeneration was conferred by baptism the court held that the charge against the plaintiff of holding false doctrine was proved and that the bishop was justified in his refusal Mr Gorham appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which pronounced its opinion (8 March 1850) that ” the doctrine held by Mr Gorham was not contrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the church of England and that Mr Gorham ought not by reason of the doctrine held by him to have been refused admission to the vicarage of Brampton-Speke” This decision led to subse\u00adquent proceedings in the three courts of law suc\u00adcessively for a rule to show cause why a prohi\u00adbition should not issue directed to the judge of the Arches court and to the archbishop of Can\u00adterbury against giving effect to the judgment of her majesty in council The rule was refused in each court and in the end Mr Gorham was insti\u00adtuted into the vicarage in question 7 Aug 1850]<\/p>\n Manning and his wife, for murder of O’Connor guilty death, 27 Oct, 1849<\/p>\n Victorian Trials – 1837-1849<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a list of some trials in Britain between 1837 and 1849. 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