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Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family struggled ...
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...
A welder in civilian life, Dernley was dubbed, albeit incorrectly, as also Albert Pierrepoint, "the last British hangman" (in fact, this title belongs jointly to Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart). More accurately, Dernley was one of the last surviving hangmen, following the deaths of both Pierrepoint and Allen in 1992.
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Pierrepoint is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival [1] and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. [2] In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766.
Henry was never officially "dismissed", but he was removed from the list of executioners and invitations to conduct executions ceased to arrive. [ citation needed ] Throughout his career as an executioner, Pierrepoint occupied various other jobs, such as a position in Huddersfield gasworks, [ 11 ] to supplement the relatively low pay English ...
At the age of 54 he persuaded the governor of Lincoln Castle Gaol to allow him to conduct an execution. The efficient way in which he conducted the hanging of William Frederick Horry on 1 April 1872 assisted him in being appointed hangman by the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in 1874, in succession to William Calcraft, at a retainer of £20 a year plus £10 per execution.
Sir Michael Gambon (born 1940); Romola Garai (born 1982); Patricia Garwood (1941–2019); Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000); Stephen Graham (born 1973); Holliday Grainger (born 1988); Cary Grant (1904–1986)