3rd Mar, 2026 10:00
The March Auctions 2026
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[Criminal Broadside, Hanging and Execution]
[Criminal Broadside, Hanging and Execution] A true and particular account of John Williams and Dinah Riddiford, Who were executed at Gloucester, on Saturday, the 7th of September, 1816: The former for breaking open the Dwelling-house of James Bann' in the Hundred of St. Briavells, and stealing thereout Wearing Apparel; and the latter for breaking open the Dwelling-house of Mr. Daniel Reed, and stealing thereout two sides of Bacon ..., [Gloucester]: [W.] Price, Printer, [1816], 31cm x 22.5cm, silked, two woodcut vignettes of gallows depicting the hangings
The Capital Punishment website states that Dinah was likely the oldest woman to have been hanged in England in the 19th or 20th Centuries at 69 years. Seventeen death sentences were passed at the Gloucester Assizes of August 1816. Dinah Riddiford was an ancestor of the Australian pop-star Kylie Minogue.
[Criminal Broadside, Hanging and Execution] A true and particular account of John Williams and Dinah Riddiford, Who were executed at Gloucester, on Saturday, the 7th of September, 1816: The former for breaking open the Dwelling-house of James Bann' in the Hundred of St. Briavells, and stealing thereout Wearing Apparel; and the latter for breaking open the Dwelling-house of Mr. Daniel Reed, and stealing thereout two sides of Bacon ..., [Gloucester]: [W.] Price, Printer, [1816], 31cm x 22.5cm, silked, two woodcut vignettes of gallows depicting the hangings
The Capital Punishment website states that Dinah was likely the oldest woman to have been hanged in England in the 19th or 20th Centuries at 69 years. Seventeen death sentences were passed at the Gloucester Assizes of August 1816. Dinah Riddiford was an ancestor of the Australian pop-star Kylie Minogue.
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