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Mary Ball (c. 1818–1849) was a Nuneaton housewife who poisoned her husband with arsenic. She was hanged in Cuckoo Lane, outside Coventry Gaol , before a crowd of about twenty thousand. She was the last person to be publicly executed in Coventry.
[4] [5] The courthouse was used as the venue for the assizes in Coventry from 1843, [6] although Coventry ceased to be a county in its own right under the Boundary Act 1847. [ 3 ] Notable cases included the trial and conviction of Mary Ball , in 1849, for poisoning her husband.
The Countess of Coventry by Francis Cotes. Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry (née Gunning; 15 August 1732 – 30 September 1760) was an Irish beauty and London society hostess during the reign of King George II. She died at a young age due to lead poisoning from toxins in her beauty regimen.
The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.
Mary Ball Washington House, 1200 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1927.The house was originally built in 1761 and has later additions. Mary Ball was born sometime between 1707 and 1709 at either Epping Forest, her family's plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, [1] or at a plantation near the village of Simonson, Virginia. [2]
18-year-old Payne went missing from the Henley Green area of Coventry on 14 December 1991. She had a six-month-old son and was on her way to her parents' house from her home in the city's Winston Avenue at the time of her disappearance. Police began a search of Coventry parkland in June 2012 after being given new information. [110]
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
Like many of Coventry's Grade I listed buildings, the city's walls were erected towards the end of the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries. Of the 20 buildings on this list, 14 are in the city centre, and 11 date back to the 14th century. The oldest is St. Mary's Priory and cathedral, now a ruin, which was founded in 1043 ...