“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.”
In which our voyeuristic gaze is drawn, as so often, to the spectacle of English subjects once esteemed and now consigned to the lowest of the dead.
On this day..
- 1452: Antonio Rizzo, cannonaded
- 1718: Avram Lopukhin, Peter the Great's brother-in-law
- 1905: Mary Rogers, chloroformer
- 1915: Cordella Stevenson lynched
- 1746: Charles Radclyffe, twice Jacobite rebel
- 1975: Isobel Lobato, wife of East Timor's Prime Minister
- 1934: John and Betty Stam, China missionaries
- 1922: Four anti-Treaty Irish Republicans
- Hand of Glory: 1,500 days and counting
- 2009: Yang Yanming, hedge fund manager
- 1828: Joseph Hunton, forger
- 1982: Suriname's "December murders"
- 1793: Madame du Barry, who hated to go
- 1596: Francisca Nunez de Carvajal, her children, and four other crypto-Jews of her family