Perpetrator
Frederick Henry Seddon
- Born
- 21 January 1872
- Died
- 18 April 1912, aged about 40
- Record
- Wikidata Q5498712 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Tollington Park Poisoning
Insurance superintendent of 63 Tollington Park, convicted of poisoning his lodger and hanged at Pentonville.
1911–1912 · Tollington Park, Islington, London, England · Executed
An insurance man took over his lodger's savings for an annuity. Weeks after she fell ill and died, the arsenic in her body sent him to the gallows. Read the case.
Dated events
Frederick Henry Seddon is born in Liverpool.
Over the following months she transfers her India stock and leasehold property to Seddon for a life annuity.
She makes a will drawn up by Seddon, naming him executor; some accounts date it 13 September.
Frederick and Margaret Seddon go on trial at the Old Bailey.
Frederick Seddon is convicted and sentenced to death; Margaret Seddon is acquitted.
Seddon is hanged at Pentonville Prison.