The Despard Plot was a failed 1802 conspiracy by British revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, a former army officer and colonial official...

and execution in 1803 as the alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate the King. Edward Despard was born in 1751 in Coolrain, Camross, Queen's County...

when, in 1803, he was tried and convicted for a plot to assassinate King George III. Catherine Despard's origins in the Caribbean have been unclear. Some...

trophies of his limbs and fingers. In 1803 Edward Despard and six co-conspirators in the Despard Plot were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered...

when, what Emmett acknowledged as a "similar attempt in England" (the "Despard Plot") was crushed,: 157, 288  and when French forces under Humbert were assigned...

conspirators in London. It did not discover the full extent of the plot, but the arrest of Despard and his execution in February 1803 may have weakened English...

was the brother of Edward Despard, also a soldier, who was executed in 1803 for his part in the Despard Plot. John Despard was born in Dublin and served...

seize the Tower of London; the so-called Despard Plot. In court, Nelson recollected his service with Despard in the Caribbean, during the American War:...

1803 executed, the alleged ringleaders of a United conspiracy (the "Despard Plot”) to assassinate of the King, seize the Tower of London and spark a rising...

suspicion. An example is when they arrested Colonel Edward Despard, for provoking the Despard Plot. In 1792, Parliament did pass legislation that introduced...

executed for treasonable association with their remnants—the so-called Despard Plot—in 1803. In The Making of the English Working Class (1963), in which...

Despard and six others in the Despard Plot were hanged and decapitated on the roof of the gatehouse at Horsemonger Lane Gaol for allegedly plotting to...

Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist....

Despard, colonel and Superintendent of British Honduras, imprisoned for revolutionary activity, and later executed for his part in the Despard Plot John...

cambridge.org. Retrieved 9 March 2021. Elliott, Marianne (May 1977). "The 'Despard Plot' Reconsidered". Past & Present (1): 46–61. doi:10.1093/past/75.1.46....

Athol Books. ISBN 0-85034-0330. Elliott, Marianne (May 1977). "The 'Despard Plot' Reconsidered". Past & Present (1): 46–61. doi:10.1093/past/75.1.46....

Ariadne Oliver, Major Despard and his wife Rhoda (who met and fell in love in Cards on the Table) also participate in the plot. Mrs Dane Calthrop from...

commercial docks in London, open. 16 November: The ringleaders of the Despard Plot are arrested. On 21 February 1803, 7 are hanged and decapitated publicly...

by a British detachment. February 21 – Edward Despard and six others are hanged and beheaded for plotting to assassinate King George III of the United...

herself falls in and drowns, while Rhoda is rescued by Despard. Poirot explains his findings. Despard had indeed shot and killed the botanist, but entirely...

Edward Marcus Despard and his co-conspirators were arrested at the Oakley Arms public house at 72 Oakley Street for their part in the Despard Plot. In all,...

provided the most dependable elements in Coigly's United Britons and in the Despard Plot. Finnerty was not implicated alongside the Spenceans in either the Spa...

renewing contacts not only with Paris but also (as advertised in the Despard Plot) with radical groups in Britain. James Hope, one of Emmet's principal...

Richard Dauntless His Foster-Brother – A Man-o'-war's-man (tenor) Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore, A Wicked Baronet (bass-baritone or baritone) Old...

known to have been in contact with Edward Despard who, in 1803, was to hang as the alleged ringleader in a plot to assassinate the king. At the end of February...

Richard Cooper as Tony Cosgrave Michael Shepley as George Despard Jane Carr as Cleo Despard Geraldine Fitzgerald as Evelyn Daventry Sebastian Shaw as...

and his girlfriend Anne dumps him. He joins a Marxist group headed by Despard, a working class factory worker who is fomenting a general strike. The...

Arrest in London of ringleaders of the Despard Plot: a failed conspiracy by revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Despard, a radical Anglo-Irish former British...

work. Maxine, a former certified fraud examiner, is approached by Reg Despard regarding suspicious goings-on at hashslingrz, a computer security firm...

ISBN 9780850364965. Hope (2001) p.79 Elliott, Marianne (May 1977). "The 'Despard Plot' Reconsidered". Past & Present. 75 (1): 46–61. doi:10.1093/past/75.1...