Eugene Aram was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.
Portrait of Eugene Aram, from The Newgate Calendar
Illustration of Aram's alleged murder of Daniel Clarke, from The Newgate Calendar
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Eugene Aram
…Eugene Aram (c. September 1704 – 6 August 1759) was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1832 novel…
Cover of Indo-European Philology: Historical and Comparative by William Burley Lockwood (1969)