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Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, the Glossary

Edith Jessie Thompson (25 December 1893 – 9 January 1923) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (27 June 1902 – 9 January 1923) were a British couple executed for the murder of Thompson's husband Percy.^[1]

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1920s murders in London
1922 in London
1922 murders in the United Kingdom
Criminal couples
London crime history
Murderer duos
People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging
People from Dalston

A Pin to See the Peepshow

A Pin to See the Peepshow is a 1934 novel by F. Tennyson Jesse, based on the 1922 Thompson–Bywaters murder case.

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Aldersgate

Aldersgate is a Ward of the City of London, England, named after one of the northern gates in the London Wall which once enclosed the City.

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Aldgate tube station

Aldgate is a London Underground station near Aldgate in the City of London.

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Amelia Sach and Annie Walters

Amelia Sach (1873 – 3 February 1903) and Annie Walters (1869 – 3 February 1903) were two British murderers better known as the Finchley baby farmers. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters and Amelia Sach and Annie Walters are 20th-century executions by England and Wales, burials at Brookwood Cemetery, English people convicted of murder, executed English people and People convicted of murder by England and Wales.

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Another Life (2001 film)

Another Life is a 2001 British crime film written and directed by Philip Goodhew.

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Arithmetic

Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Baby farming

Baby farming is the historical practice of accepting custody of an infant or child in exchange for payment in late-Victorian Britain and, less commonly, in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Begging the question

In classical rhetoric and logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion.

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Bernard Spilsbury

Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury (16 May 1877 – 17 December 1947) was a British pathologist.

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Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Capital punishment in the United Kingdom

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second half of the 20th century.

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Cause célèbre

A cause célèbre (pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.

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Cecil Whiteley

George Cecil Whiteley KC MA DL JP (1875–1942), was Common Serjeant of London from 1933 to 1942 and a Judge at the Mayor's and City of London Court.

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City of London Cemetery and Crematorium

The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium in the east of London.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Criterion Theatre

The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre at Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building.

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Dalston

Dalston is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney.

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Dominic Raab

Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor from September 2021 to September 2022 and again from October 2022 to April 2023.

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E. M. Delafield

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author.

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Edgar Lustgarten

Edgar Marcus Lustgarten (3 May 1907 – 15 December 1978) was a British broadcaster and noted crime writer.

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Edward Marshall Hall

Sir Edward Marshall Hall, (16 September 1858 – 24 February 1927) was an English barrister who had a formidable reputation as an orator.

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F. Tennyson Jesse

Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried (Winifred) Margaret Jesse; 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson).

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Filson Young

Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938) was a journalist from Northern Ireland, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called Titanic, in 1912, only 37 days after the sinking.

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Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Frank Vosper

Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Henry Curtis-Bennett

Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett, KC (31 July 1879 – 2 November 1936) was an English barrister and Conservative Party politician.

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HM Prison Holloway

HM Prison Holloway was a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

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HM Prison Pentonville

HM Prison Pentonville (informally "The Ville") is an English Category B men's prison, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters and HM Prison Pentonville are London crime history.

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Home Secretary

The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office.

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Ilford

Ilford is a large town in East London, England, northeast of Charing Cross.

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Imperial Brands

Imperial Brands plc (formerly Imperial Tobacco Group plc) is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in London and Bristol, England.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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John Ellis (executioner)

John Ellis (4 October 1874 – 20 September 1932) was a British executioner for 23 years, from 1901 to 1924.

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the philosophy and theory of law.

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Manor Park, London

Manor Park is a residential area of the London Borough of Newham in east London, England.

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Merchant navy

A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country.

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Montague Shearman

Sir Montague Shearman, (7 April 1857 – 6 January 1930) was an English judge and athlete.

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Murder in English law

Murder is an offence under the common law legal system of England and Wales.

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Murder, Mystery and My Family

Murder, Mystery and My Family is a BBC One series featuring Sasha Wass KC and Jeremy Dein KC., which examines historic criminal convictions resulting in the death penalty in order to determine if any of them resulted in a miscarriage of justice.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.

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Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster.

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Piccadilly Circus tube station

Piccadilly Circus is a London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner.

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Rhoda Willis

Rhoda Willis, also known under the alias of Leslie James, (14 August 1867 – 14 August 1907) was an English baby farmer convicted of murder. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters and Rhoda Willis are 20th-century executions by England and Wales, British people executed for murder, English people convicted of murder and People convicted of murder by England and Wales.

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Royal prerogative of mercy

In the English and British tradition, the royal prerogative of mercy is one of the historic royal prerogatives of the British monarch, by which they can grant pardons (informally known as a royal pardon) to convicted persons.

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Ruth Ellis

Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters and Ruth Ellis are 20th-century executions by England and Wales, British people executed for murder, London crime history, murder in London and People convicted of murder by England and Wales.

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Sarah Waters

Sarah Ann Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.

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Shanklin

Shanklin is a seaside resort town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, located on Sandown Bay.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Newham.

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Styllou Christofi

Styllou Pantopiou Christofi (Στυλλού Χριστοφή; 1900 – 13 December 1954) was a Greek Cypriot woman hanged in Britain for murdering her daughter-in-law. Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters and Styllou Christofi are 20th-century executions by England and Wales and burials at Brookwood Cemetery.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters.

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Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, (5 March 1876 – 11 October 1947) was a British politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940.

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Travers Humphreys

Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister and judge who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', among many others.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Thompson_and_Frederick_Bywaters

Also known as Edith Jessie Thompson, Edith Jessie Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, Edith Thompson, Frederick Bywaters, Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson, Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters.

, Ruth Ellis, Sarah Waters, Shanklin, Stratford, London, Styllou Christofi, Surrey, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Paying Guests, Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, Travers Humphreys, University College London, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wigmore chart, William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, William Twining, YouTube.

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See also

1920s murders in London

1922 in London

1922 murders in the United Kingdom

Criminal couples

London crime history

Murderer duos

People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging

People from Dalston

References