Coolrain, Camross, Queen's County, Kingdom of Ireland
Died
21 February 1803 (aged 51-52)
Horsemonger Lane Gaol, London
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Nationality
Irish
Occupation(s)
Soldier, colonial administrator, revolutionary
Employer(s)
British Army, British Home Office
Movement
Society of United Irishmen, London Corresponding Society
Criminal charge
High treason
Criminal penalty
Death by hanging followed by beheading
Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803), an Irish officer in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for refusing to recognise racial distinctions in law and, following his recall to London, as a republican conspirator. Despard's associations with the London Corresponding Society, the United Irishmen and United Britons led to his trial and execution in 1803 as the alleged ringleader of a plot to assassinate the King.
Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803), an Irish officer in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for...
Catherine Despard (died 1815), from Jamaica, publicised political detentions and prison conditions in London where her Irish husband, Colonel EdwardDespard, was...
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Coigly met with leading members of the LCS, among them the Irishmen EdwardDespard, the brothers Benjamin and John Binns, William Henry Hamilton, and Alexander...
The Despard Plot was a failed 1802 conspiracy by British revolutionaries led by Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, a former army officer and colonial official...
military. The eldest brother, John Despard (1745–1829), rose to the rank of full General, while another, Colonel EdwardDespard gained notoriety as a United...
radicalisation of the London Corresponding Society: among them United Irishman EdwardDespard, brothers Benjamin and John Binns, and LCS president Alexander Galloway...
Wars: Kandy, Ceylon is taken by a British detachment. February 21 – EdwardDespard and six others are hanged and beheaded for plotting to assassinate King...
on suspicion. An example is when they arrest Colonel EdwardDespard, for provoking the Despard Plot. In 1792, Parliament did pass legislation that introduced...
occupied by the Mount Pleasant sorting office. Edward Dando, thief and glutton in London EdwardDespard, colonel and Superintendent of British Honduras...
now in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum. 21 February 1803: EdwardDespard and six others in the Despard Plot were hanged and decapitated on the roof of the gatehouse...
of pleading insanity several years later during the case of Colonel EdwardDespard. Hadfield was detained in Bethlem Royal Hospital for the rest of his...
by Paul K Lyons Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine Edward Marcus DESPARD; Edward Law Earl of Ellenborough (1803). State Trials at large. Taken...
attorney general, Perceval was involved with the prosecution of radicals EdwardDespard and William Cobbett, but was also responsible for more liberal decisions...
ultimately failed when armed settlers led by the Anglo-Irish soldier EdwardDespard retook the settlements. Although Spain had been unable to drive the...
the Caribbean coast but failed to drive them out. The British under EdwardDespard however succeeded in retaking the Black River settlement in August 1782...
preparations in England were intensified, including in London where EdwardDespard sought to enlist in the republican conspiracy soldiers of the guards'...
people linked to Al Islah for an alleged coup plot. 1802: Despard Plot; plan by EdwardDespard to assassinate King George III and stage a popular uprising...
the campaign of Catherine Despard to publicise and protest the conditions under which her Irish husband Colonel EdwardDespard and other political radicals...
British Royal Navy. With this in effect, Governor Campbell gave Edward Marcus Despard permission to retake the Black River settlement after learning that...
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