The damnation of John Donellan

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was hanged for his murder. The trial was a shambles. And was Donellan guilty?

שנה

2011

שפה

English

הוצאה

Profile Books

מהדורות

1

עמודים

289

ISBN

9781846684821

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata