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    Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803), an Irish officer in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for...
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    witness in the treason trial of a former comrade in arms, Colonel Edward Despard. Despard, who had been moving in radical circles in London—a member both...
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  • Catherine Despard (died 1815), from Jamaica, publicised political detentions and prison conditions in London where her Irish husband, Colonel Edward Despard, was...
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  • Despard may refer to: Charlotte Despard, British suffragette and Sinn Féin activist Edward Marcus Despard, Irish-born British colonel turned revolutionary...
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    2019 Victoria King Louis Philippe Main role, 2 episodes 2019 Poldark Edward Despard Main role, 6 episodes 2019–2022 Traces Phil MacAfee Recurring role,...
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  • of British Honduras in 1790, following the suspension of incumbent Edward Despard. He held that position until 1791 and was said to have administered...
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    making trophies of his limbs and fingers. In 1803 Edward Despard and six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered...
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    Coigly met with leading members of the LCS, among them the Irishmen Edward Despard, the brothers Benjamin and John Binns, William Henry Hamilton, and Alexander...
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    radicalisation of the London Corresponding Society: among them United Irishman Edward Despard, brothers Benjamin and John Binns, and LCS president Alexander Galloway...
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    the campaign of Catherine Despard to publicise and protest the conditions under which her Irish husband Colonel Edward Despard and other political radicals...
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    Wars: Kandy, Ceylon is taken by a British detachment. February 21 – Edward Despard and six others are hanged and beheaded for plotting to assassinate King...
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  • Edward Despard Gazzam (born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1803; died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1878) was an American medical doctor,...
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    on suspicion. An example is when they arrest Colonel Edward Despard, for provoking the Despard Plot. In 1792, Parliament did pass legislation that introduced...
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    small patrimony. In 1803, he presided over the treason trial of Colonel Edward Despard. In denying the jury's motion for clemency (following the character...
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    now in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum. 21 February 1803: Edward Despard and six others in the Despard Plot were hanged and decapitated on the roof of the gatehouse...
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    The Despard Plot was a failed 1802 conspiracy by British revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, a former army officer and colonial official...
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  • military. The eldest brother, John Despard (1745–1829), rose to the rank of full General, while another, Colonel Edward Despard gained notoriety as a United...
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  • of pleading insanity several years later during the case of Colonel Edward Despard. Hadfield was detained in Bethlem Royal Hospital for the rest of his...
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    by Paul K Lyons Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine Edward Marcus DESPARD; Edward Law Earl of Ellenborough (1803). State Trials at large. Taken...
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    occupied by the Mount Pleasant sorting office. Edward Dando, thief and glutton in London Edward Despard, colonel and Superintendent of British Honduras...
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    attorney general, Perceval was involved with the prosecution of radicals Edward Despard and William Cobbett, but was also responsible for more liberal decisions...
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    Fingersmith. Inmates included: William Chester Minor, convicted of murder Edward Despard, convicted of high treason (executed at the gaol on 21 February 1803)...
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  • Thomas Cranmer (1556) Niren Dasgupta (1915) William Davidson (1820) Edward Despard (1803) Everard Digby (1606) Dragutin Dimitrijević (1917) Henry Donn...
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  • Pancras churchyard Catherine Despard (d.1815), political activist and wife of executed seditionist Colonel Edward Despard Samuel De Wilde (1751–1832),...
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  • He was the brother of Edward Despard, also a soldier, who was executed in 1803 for his part in the Despard Plot. John Despard was born in Dublin and...
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  • to a state of open and avowed rebellion. 1782 – British forces under Edward Despard complete the reconquest of the Black River settlements on the Mosquito...
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    ultimately failed when armed settlers led by the Anglo-Irish soldier Edward Despard retook the settlements. Although Spain had been unable to drive the...
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    the Caribbean coast but failed to drive them out. The British under Edward Despard however succeeded in retaking the Black River settlement in August 1782...
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    preparations in England were intensified, including in London where Edward Despard sought to enlist in the republican conspiracy soldiers of the guards'...
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    Jamaica in 1781. The ship formed part of a squadron that supported Edward Despard in his capture of the Black River settlement at the Battle of the Black...
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