Perpetrator
Edward William Pritchard
- Born
- 6 December 1825
- Died
- 28 July 1865, aged about 40
- Record
- Wikidata Q5345907 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Sauchiehall Street Poisonings
Former naval surgeon and Glasgow general practitioner, convicted of poisoning his wife and mother-in-law.
1864–1865 · Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland · Executed
A Glasgow doctor poisoned his wife and her mother while nursing them, and in 1865 became the last man hanged in public in the city. Read the case.
Dated events
Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire.
Mary Jane Pritchard begins to suffer repeated attacks of sickness.
Mary Jane Pritchard dies at home, aged 38.
Pritchard is arrested in Glasgow on his return from his wife's funeral in Edinburgh.
Pritchard is hanged in public at Glasgow Green, the last public execution in the city.