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Portrait of James Maybrick
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Victim

James Maybrick

Born
24 October 1838
Died
11 May 1889, aged about 51
Record
Wikidata Q325864 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Aigburth Poisoning

Liverpool cotton broker and habitual user of arsenic and patent medicines. Wikidata also lists 25 October as his birth date.

1889–1904 · Aigburth, Liverpool, England · Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. She marries James Maybrick at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

  2. James Maybrick falls ill at Battlecrease House.

  3. James Maybrick dies at home in Aigburth.

  4. Florence Maybrick's trial for murder opens at St George's Hall, Liverpool.