THISTLEWOOD, ARTHUR

1770–1820, British conspirator. He acquired revolutionary views while traveling in France and America and, after his return to England, joined the revolutionary Spencean Society (see Spence, Thomas) in London. In 1816 he organized a public meeting at Spa Fields, at which a revolution was to be started. However, the meeting was easily dispersed, and Thistlewood was arrested and narrowly escaped conviction for treason. A year later he was imprisoned for challenging Lord Sidmouth, the home secretary, to a duel. Upon his release (1819) Thistlewood, dissatisfied with the milder efforts of his colleagues, plotted the assassination of cabinet members at a cabinet dinner. The government, apprised of the conspiracy, surprised the plotters at their arsenal in a Cato Street loft. Thistlewood was subsequently convicted of treason and executed for his part in what is known as the Cato Street Conspiracy.

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books on: Thistlewood Arthur  - 64 results

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In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86
Book by Douglas Hall; University of the West Indies Press, 1999
Subjects: Plantation Life--Jamaica--History--Sources, Slavery--Jamaica--History--Sources, Thistlewood, Thomas--1721-1786--Diaries
...punishment, in 1820, of his nephew Arthur Thistlewood, of Tupholme, who was the leader...new provisional government. Arthur Thistlewoods plan was divulged...was said to be a West Indian. Thistlewood and his associates were cornered...
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Wellington: A Personal History
Book by Christopher Hibbert; Perseus Publishing, 1997
Subjects: Generals--Great Britain--Biography, Great Britain--History, Military--19th Century, Great Britain--Politics And Government--19th Century, Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley--Duke Of--1769-1852
...Alfred, later 1 st Baron Tennyson 1809-92 , 402 Thistlewood, Arthur 1770-1820 , 218 Thornton, James, Ws cook , 111...statue, 376 and n; Chartism, 380 , 381 ; Prince Arthur, 381 ; godmother to Ws granddaughter, 387 n; Ws...
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The Constitution of England from Queen Victoria to George Vi - Vol. 2
Book by Arthur Berriedale Keith; Macmillan and Company, Ltd., 1940
Subjects: Constitutional History--Great Britain, Great Britain--Constitution, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Great Britain--Politics And Government--20th Century
...permits challenge of 35 jurors. 3 B. v. Lynch , 1903 1 K.B. 444. 4 R. v. Casement , 1917 1 K.B. 98. 5 R. v. Thistlewood 1820 , 33 St. Tr. 681. 6 B. v. Gallagher 1883 , 15 Cox C.C. 291, 317. 7 Mulcahy v. R. 1868 , L.R. 3 H.L...
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The Constitution of England from Queen Victoria to George Vi - Vol. 1
Book by Arthur Berriedale Keith; Macmillan, 1940
Subjects: Constitutional History--Great Britain, Great Britain--Constitution, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Great Britain--Politics And Government--20th Century
...ii. 392 R. v. Sunderland Justices 1901 , ii. 235 R. v. Sussex Justices; McCarthy, Ex parte 1924 , ii. 235 R. v. Thistlewood 1820 , ii. 359 R. v. Thomas 1816 , ii. 210 R. v. Tubbs 1776 , ii. 205 R. v. Vincent 1839 , ii. 399 R. v. Vyner...
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Waterloo to Peterloo
Book by R. J. White; Russell & Russell, 1973
Subjects: Great Britain--History--1800-1837, Great Britain--Social Conditions--19th Century
...177 ; and Peterloo, 113 , 189 ; challenged to duel by Arthur Thistlewood, 189 ; on Cato Street Plot, 190 . Mentioned, 53...63 Sunday Schools, and industry: 23 THISTLEWOOD, Arthur: 5 , 13 , 32 , 79 , 91 , 125 , 138 , 141 , 143 , 151...
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journal articles on: Thistlewood Arthur  - 6 results

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Artisan Melodrama and the Plebeian Public Sphere: The Political Culture of Drury Lane and Its Environs, 1797-1830
Journal article by David Worrall; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 39, 2000
Subjects: Drama--19th century, London, England--History, Moncrieff, William Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater--Political aspects
...in the area became the favorite haunts of Spencean ideologues such as Robert Wedderburn, "Dr." James Watson, Arthur Thistlewood and Thomas Preston, the latter three already acquitted of High Treason in 1817. The White Lion in Wych Street...
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African Caribbean Slave Mothers and Children: Traumas of Dislocation and Enslavement across the Atlantic World
Journal article by Barbara Bush; Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2010
...woman of the Jamaican planter, Thomas Thistlewood. Locked up for stealing from the cookhouse...was caught in a provision ground where Thistlewood asserted his droit de seigneur over...fifteen, is clinically recorded by Thistlewood when he punished her for running away...
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Punishment, Crime, and the Bodies of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Journal article by Diana Paton; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of--18th century, Criminal law--Interpretation and construction, Jamaica--Politics and government, Slaveholders--Laws, regulations, etc., Slaves--Social aspects, Trials--Records and correspondence
...and brought him back to the estate. Thistlewood laid charges of assault against Sam...Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 (London, 1989...Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 462; Arthur N. Gilbert, "Military and Civilian...
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Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and West African Art and Form in Suriname's Jewish Cemeteries
Journal article by Aviva Ben-Ur; American Jewish History, Vol. 92, 2004
Subjects: American Jews--History, American Jews--Social aspects, Art, Jewish--Research, Cemeteries--Research, Jewish art--Research, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, Surinamese history
...scaled plan. (22) In the mid-1990s, Arthur Strelick, a staff member of the American...eighteenth-century Jamaican planter Thomas Thistlewood we know that enslaved women often initiated...Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican...
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Kinship, Generation and Community: The Transmission of Political Ideology in Radical Plebeian Print Culture
Journal article by David Worrall; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 43, 2004
Subjects: English romanticism, 1798-1832--Criticism and interpretation, Radicalism--Criticism and interpretation
...Are You Rights printer was Arthur Seale, the Tottenham Court...assisting the acquittal of Thistlewood, Watson and Preston. (27...the author of State Trials. Arthur Seales wife (who was in a...gave directions that if Arthur Seale would incriminate Evans...
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magazine articles on: Thistlewood Arthur  - 3 results

 
 
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Thackeray the Sentimental Sceptic
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 262, June 1993
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Thackeray, William Makepeace--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...characters as seemingly distant as Arthur Pendennis and Ethel Newcome...mothers cousin, Lady Blanche Thistlewood, to Lord Steynes son. Pendenniss...him. Like Ethel Newcome, Arthur Pendennis abandons worldly...tears. Like Ethel Newcome, Arthur Pendennis returns from the...
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Thackeray's Memorials of Defeat
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 262, March 1993
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Thackeray, William Makepeace--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...himself (Ray II, p. 181). Whenever Arthur Pendennis meets Philip Firmin in The...garden in The Adventures of Philip. Arthur Pendennis--of all Thackerays characters...MacScrew in The Book of Snobs. Lady Blanche Thistlewood, daughter of Lord Bareacres in The Yellowplush...
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History: 2008: Juliet Gardiner Offers Some Seasonal Suggestions
Magazine article by Juliet Gardiner; History Today, Vol. 58, December 2008
Subjects: Books
...would have accompanied the showing of the original film. Max Arthur, who pioneered oral history compilations of the First World...is so brilliant about Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo -Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard...


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newspaper articles on: Thistlewood Arthur  - 2 results

 
 
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Deaths
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 27, 2009
...823204. HODGSON (Weardale). Thistlewood, Wolsingham. On August 25th, aged...on August 24th, aged 81 years, Arthur, dearly loved husband of the late Margaret (nee Gregory), dear dad of Arthur, Heather, Stephen and families...
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Letters: Your Views
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 5, 2000
...there any other copies that have survived 64 years. Tony Thistlewood, Oslo Gardens, Walsgrave. Shock at death I WAS shocked...wonderful in no small part due to the work Paul Madden as King Arthur and Steve Duncan had done with them. Many thanks again from...


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encyclopedia articles on: Thistlewood Arthur  - 4 results

 
 
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Thistlewood, Arthur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THISTLEWOOD, ARTHUR 1770 1820, British conspirator...meeting was easily dispersed, and Thistlewood was arrested and narrowly escaped...a duel. Upon his release (1819) Thistlewood, dissatisfied with the milder efforts...
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Cato Street Conspiracy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CATO STREET CONSPIRACY see Thistlewood, Arthur . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...painter. Educated in England, he was called to the bar in 1804. He attained notice by his successful defense of Arthur Thistlewood and James Watson (1817). He entered (1818) Parliament, became solicitor general (1819), attorney general...
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Hunt, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...classes, Hunt was quarrelsome and stubborn but a sincere proponent of electoral and other reforms. He took part with Arthur Thistlewood in the Spa Fields meeting (1816) and gained his chief notice by presiding at the meeting in Manchester that ended...


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