Edward Despard
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Edward Marcus Despard, an Irish officer of French descent in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for refusing to recognise race as a distinction in English l
Attributed to George Romney
A friend from Caribbean service, Horatio Nelson
British logging concessions in the Bay of Honduras, Convention of London 1786
Etching by Barlow, based on sketch taken at his trial, January 1803
Hanged, drawn and quartered
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. Convicted traitors were
Edward Despard
…26, a carpenter, James Sedgwick Wratton, 35, a shoemaker, Arthur Graham, 53, a slater, and John Macnamara, a labourer, Despard was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. With Nelson's assistance, Catherine Despard appealed for clemency to both the Prime Minister and the King, but secured only a waiving of the then…
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse
As illustrated in Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora, William de Marisco is drawn to his execution behind a horse.
Edward I Longshanks, King of England (1272–1307)
Edward III, under whose rule the Treason Act 1351 was enacted. It defined in law what constituted high treason.