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Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (née MacFarlane, 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. c.
Helen Duncan, Lady Duncan (née Helen Julia Pfizer) in 1888 [129] [130] Doña María Luisa La Farge Binsse de Saint-Victor de Ágreda May, Countess de Casa de Ágreda (née Marie Louise La Farge, previously Lorillard, aka Countess de Agreda) on 4 February 1889 [131] [132]
Yorke's case demonstrated that, following the earlier trial of Helen Duncan, the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided that the Witchcraft Act 1735 was still useful in dealing with cases involving mediums. Although the Act was used as a threat in several subsequent cases, the last in 1950, this was the last in which someone was actually ...
Constance Ford was born Cornelia M. Ford on July 1, 1923, in The Bronx, to parents Cornelia R. (née Smith) and Edwin J. Ford.Her siblings were Arthur, John, and Evelyn. [2] [3] Ford was a graduate of St. Barnabas Grammar and High School, and she attended Hunter College. [4]
Helen Duncan (1897–1956), medium and last person imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), Home Secretary and Tory politician John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898), owner of The Scotsman newspaper, philanthropist and donor of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery .
Veronica, Countess of Lucan, usually known simply as Lady Lucan (née Duncan; 3 May 1937 – 26 September 2017), was the wife of the 7th Earl of Lucan, an Anglo-Irish peer. She became widely known following the events of 1974, when the family’s nanny was murdered and she survived an assault.
Helen Margaret Duncan (May 3, 1910 – August 14, 1971) was a geologist and paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey from 1945 to 1971, where she ...
[2] Guthrie was subsequently strangled and burned with tar before being sentenced and judicially executed at the Playfield Forfar (situated on the site of the present day Victoria Street). [3] Janet was released from custody in 1666 after the hysteria of the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62 subsided.