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Culloden - prisoners

Categories: Law, Tragedy

Countries: Scotland

3,470 prisoners were taken, men women and children, and it was decided that they should all be tried in England.  Seven ships carried them from Inverness on 10 June 1746.  Their destinies were various:  Many were eventually released but 116 commoners were executed at Carlisle, York and Kennington Common and 4 lords at Tower Hill.  Others were transported to the colonies, banished to a country of their choice, escaped or died in prison.  On 11 August 268 prisoners were landed at Tilbury Fort and imprisoned there.  Others were held in prison ships on the Thames nearby.  Only 1 in 20 of the Tilbury prisoners were tried, selected by lottery.  Meanwhile the prisoners were available for viewing by paying sight-seers who came via the river from Westminster.  The last Tilbury Fort prisoner was eventually released sometime after January 1750.

The four lords executed at Tower Hill were: Kilmarnock & Balmerino, Lovat and George Earl of Cromartie for whom we have not found a memorial. The Newgate Calendar reports on the executions. 

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Culloden - prisoners

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Culloden prisoners

This granite stone was recovered from Culloden Moor, site of the battle. We v...

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William Lambard

William Lambard

Antiquarian, lawyer, politician and writer. His name was also spelt Lambarde. Born London, he studied law at Lincoln's Inn, wrote the 'Perambulation of Kent', (the first English county history) and...

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1 memorial
American Bar Association

American Bar Association

Stated mission: "To serve equally our members, our profession and the public by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession."

Group, Law, USA

1 memorial
Edward Arthur Last-Smith

Edward Arthur Last-Smith

Edward Arthur Last Smith was born on 22 March 1884 in Torquay, Devon, the second of the five children of Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) and Emily Phyllis Smith née Dixon (1863-1936). His father was ...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Dieter Bock

Dieter Bock

Hans-Dieter Bock, or Dieter Bock, was born on 3 March 1939 in Dessau, the capital of the Free State of Anhalt. (This later became the German Democratic Republic and is now Germany). Having fled wi...

Person, Commerce, Law, Germany

4 memorials
F. Brader

F. Brader

Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frederick Brader was born about 1880 and in late 1914 he married Lilian Soper in Fulham, their s...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial