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HOUG/F/C/1
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Causes célèbres
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- 3 Jul.1810-[after 20. Aug 1879] (Creation)
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1 vol. containing 41 cuttings.
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Album containing cuttings relating to cause célèbres of the early and mid seventeenth century. These include: Caroline of Brunswick's claim to the title of Queen Consort and the Cato Street conspiracy, both of 1820; the Davidson and Gordon fraud of 1858-1859; various trials and executions, such as those of the forger Henry Fauntleroy and the murderer John Thurtell. The case of William Dove, a Leeds man hanged for poisoning his wife in 1856, aroused much interest in the Milnes family due to the murderer's local connections.
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- Caroline (1683–1737), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Electress of Hanover, consort of George II (Subject)
- Davidson, Daniel Mitchell (fl 1850s), colonial broker and metal agent, convicted of fraud (Subject)
- Gordon, Cosmo William (fl 1850s), colonial broker and metal agent, convicted of fraud (Subject)
- Fauntleroy, Henry (1784-1824), banker and forger (Subject)
- Thurtell, John (1794-1894), murderer (Subject)
- Dove, William (d 1856), murderer (Subject)