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	Arthur Thistlewood - LoveToKnow 1911
		ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD (1770-1820), the principal instigator of the Cato Street conspiracy, a plot formed to murder many British ministers in 1820.
		A son of William Thistlewood, and born at Tupholme in Lincolnshire, young Thistlewood passed his early years in a desultory fashion; he became a soldier and visited France and America, imbibing republican opinions abroad and running into debt at home.
		Becoming more violent Thistlewood formed other plots, talked of murdering the prince of Wales, and was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for challenging the home secretary, Lord Sidmouth, to a duel.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Arthur_Thistlewood (1081 words)

	Arthur Thistlewood
		Arthur Thistlewood was born in Tupholme in 1774.
		Arthur, the illegitimate son of a prosperous farmer and stockbreeder, was educated at Horncastle Grammar School and then trained as a land-surveyor.
		Arthur Thistlewood was executed at Newgate Prison on the 1st May, 1820.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRthistlewood.htm (1518 words)

	Arthur Thistlewood (1774-1820)
		Thistlewood was born at either Bardney or Tupholme in Lincolnshire; he was baptised on 24 December 1774.
		Thistlewood was educated privately with a view to him becoming a land surveyor but he did not wish to go into this line of work.
		Thistlewood was imprisoned for eighteen month in 1818-19 for issuing a challenge to a duel to Viscount Sidmouth, the Home Secretary who was responsible for the Six Acts of 1819, which were intended to suppress radical movements.
	www.historyhome.co.uk /c-eight/people/thistle.htm (639 words)

	AllRefer.com - Arthur Thistlewood (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		However, the meeting was easily dispersed, and Thistlewood was arrested and narrowly escaped conviction for treason.
		Upon his release (1819) Thistlewood, dissatisfied with the milder efforts of his colleagues, plotted the assassination of cabinet members at a cabinet dinner.
		Thistlewood was subsequently convicted of treason and executed for his part in what is known as the Cato Street Conspiracy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Thistlew.html (252 words)

	Spencean Philanthropists
		The four leaders of the Spenceans, James Watson, Arthur Thistlewood, Thomas Preston and John Hopper were arrested and charged with high treason.
		Thistlewood's gang planned to assemble in a hayloft in Cato Street, a short distance away from Grosvenor Square.
		Four of the conspirators, Thistlewood, John Brunt, Robert Adams and John Harrison escaped out of a window, but the police spies knew who they were and all four were arrested during the next couple of days.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRspencean.htm (1759 words)

	James Ings
		Thistlewood suggested that Castlereagh's severed head should be carried through Irish areas of London on a pole.
		On 22nd February 1820, George Edwards pointed out to Arthur Thistlewood an item in the New Times that several members of the British government were going to have dinner at Lord Harrowby's house at 39 Grosvenor Square.
		Several members of the gang refused to surrender their weapons and one police officer, Richard Smithers, was killed by Arthur Thistlewood.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRings.htm (1066 words)

	Cato Street Conspiracy
		Arthur Thistlewood, claimed at one meeting that he could raise 15,000 armed men in just half an hour.
		When Davidson reported this news back to Arthur Thistlewood, he insisted that the servant was lying and that the assassinations should proceed as planned.
		Arthur Thistlewood had for some time conceived the wicked and nefarious plan of overturning the government so long established in this country; and it will appear to you that several, nay, all of the persons mentioned in the indictment, were participators in the same design.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcato.htm (2733 words)

	John Brunt
		Four leaders of the group, James Watson, Arthur Thistlewood, Thomas Preston and John Hopper were arrested and charged with high treason.
		Arthur Thistlewood was still convinced a successful violent revolution was still possible.
		John Brunt agreed to join Thistlewood and and twenty-seven other Spenceans in the plot to kill the government ministers dining at Lord Harrowby's house on 23rd February.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRbrunt.htm (1013 words)

	William Davidson
		He met Arthur Thistlewood and within a few months became one of the Committee of Thirteen that ran the organisation.
		William Davidson agreed to join Thistlewood and and twenty-seven other Spenceans in the plot to kill the government ministers dining at Lord Harrowby's house on 23rd February.
		Thistlewood selected Davidson as one of the Executive of Five whose job it was to organise the assassinations.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRdavidson.htm (1339 words)

	James Watson
		After the death of Spence in 1814 James Watson and Arthur Thistlewood helped form the Society of Spencean Philanthropists.
		He was still in prison when Arthur Thistlewood and other members of the Spenceans were arrested and executed for their part in the Cato Street Conspiracy.
		After his release from prison Watson emigrated to the United States where he lived until his death as a pauper in New York City on 12th February 1838.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwatson.htm (566 words)

	Arthur Thistlewood
		Thistlewood and his son, and himself -- and that I should
		for the apprehension of the notorious Arthur Thistlewood,
		Thistlewood stood near the door with a drawn
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/newgate5/thistle.htm (3524 words)

	Richard Tidd
		Over the years his political ideas had become more revolutionary and he was now a follower of Thomas Spence.
		Tidd was particularly incensed by the Peterloo Massacre and afterwards talked about the possibility of killing Lord Castlereagh and Lord Sidmouth for their role in this event.
		Richard Tidd agreed to join Thistlewood and and twenty-seven other Spenceans in the plot to kill the government ministers dining at Lord Harrowby's house on 23rd February.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRtidd.htm (911 words)

	Timeline Great Britain 1800-1859
		Earlier, in 1816, Thistlewood helped plan the Spa Fields Riots, during which the Bank of England and Tower of London were to be seized.
		His plot for murder was revealed to the police, who apprehended Thistlewood and a number of accomplices as they prepared to leave a room on Cato Street for Grosvenor Square.
		Thistlewood was tried for high treason and hanged, along with four others.
	www.timelines.ws /countries/GB_D_1800_1859.HTML (15120 words)

	Execution (Steve Harris; donald j haarmann)
		The last true performance of the brutal sentence took place in 1820, although the 'disembowelling' part was mercifully omitted.
		Again, social deprivation had bred discontent, this time in London, creating ideal conditions for the likes of agitators such as Arthur Thistlewood and his cronies.
		Believing that if the government could be brought down, revolution would triumph, the five conspirators plotted to murder the members of the Cabinet and to seize the Mansion House, the Bank of England and the Tower.
	www.yarchive.net /med/execution.html (2742 words)

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