1820 planned assassination attempt on UK Government ministers
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Cato Street Conspiracy
Part of the Revolutions during the 1820s
The arrest of the Cato Street conspirators.
Date
22-23 February 1820
Location
Cato Street, London
Caused by
Death of George III
Implementation of the Six Acts
Goals
Overthrow of the Government
Methods
Conspiracy
Assassination
Resulted in
Conspiracy foiled
Parties
United Kingdom
Tory Party
Bow Street Runners
Coldstream Guards
Informants
Committee of Public Safety
Lead figures
George IV Robert Jenkinson Dudley Ryder Richard Birnie Frederick FitzClarence
Arthur Thistlewood William Davidson
Number
14 police officers
27 conspirators
Casualties
Death(s)
1 police officer
Arrested
13 conspirators
Charged
5 executed 5 exiled
The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London. The police had an informer; the plotters fell into a police trap. Thirteen were arrested, while one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed. Five conspirators were executed, and five others were transported to Australia.
How widespread the Cato Street conspiracy was is uncertain. It was a time of unrest; rumours abounded.[1] Malcolm Chase noted that "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably shoemakers, were prepared to lend support, while unrest and awareness of a planned rising were widespread in the industrial north and on Clydeside."[2]
^Elie Halevy, The Liberal Awakening 1815–1930 [A History of the English People In The Nineteenth Century – vol. II] (1949), pp. 80–84.
^Malcolm Chase, "Thistlewood, Arthur (bap. 1774, d. 1820)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
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