in Ayrshire, Scotland
The site of the scaffold, 1746
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Arthur Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino, executed 18 August 1746. Charles Ratcliffe, de jure 4th Earl of Derwentwater, husband of Lady Charlotte Livingston, the Countess of Newburgh, executed 8 December 1746. (Younger brother of the Earl of Derwentwater, executed for his part in the 1715 rising.) Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser, executed 19 April 1747. (The last man to be publicly executed on Tower Hill.) 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, William Boyd, husband of Lady Anne Livingston of Callendar, executed 18 August 1746. George MacKenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, reprieved and ultimately pardoned. After the Tower Hill execution of Kilmarnock, Lovat and Balmerino, a pub called 'THREE LORDS' was built at 27 Church Street, Minories, London E. The Inn sign showed them with the executioner's axe and the block. All the licencees from 1811 to 1894 are on record. Click here for the poem 'Lord Lovat's Execution'. Click here to read of 'The Enigma of Lord Lovat'. |
A perspective view of Tower Hill and the place of execution of the Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino