List of executioners
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

List of executioners

Section Title: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Table Section Text: None

Cratwell	to 1538 (London; in 1538 he was himself hanged for robbery)

"Stump-leg"	to 1556 (London; he was himself hanged for theft)

? Bull	before 1587–1601 (London)

Thomas Derrick	1601- before 1616 (London)

Gregory Brandon	before 1616- before 1640 (London)

Richard Brandon	before 1640–1649 (London)

William Lowen	1649 (London)

Edward Dun	1649–1663 (London) (the subject of Groanes from Newgate, or an Elegy upon Edward Dun. Esq., the Citie's Common Hangman, who died naturally in his bed the 11th of September, 1663.

Jack Ketch	1663–1686 (London)

Paskah Rose	1686 (Bleackley (1929) graphs his name as Pasha Rose; London)

John Price	1714–1715 (London)

William Marvell	1715–1717 (London)

James Aird	1715–1723 (Scotland)

? Banks (known as Banks the Bailiff)	1717- after 1718 (London)

Richard Arnet	before 1726–1728 (London; hanged Jonathan Wild in 1725)

John Hooper	1728–1735 (London; known as "the laughing hangman")

John Thrift	1735–1752 (convicted of murder in 1750, but pardoned and continued in office (London); executed Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England.)

Thomas Turlis	1752–1771 (London; hanged Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers with a silken rope, the last nobleman to be hanged in England)

Edward Dennis	1771–1786 (London; the last hangman at Tyburn and the first at Newgate; died 21 November 1786 at his home in the Old Bailey)

Edward Barlow	1781–1812 (Lancashire)

William Brunskill	career lasted from 1786 to 1814 (London) (started as assistant to Edward Dennis; executed Catherine Murphy in 1789, the last woman to be burned at the stake in England)

Samuel Burrows	1802-1834 (Cheshire)

William Taylor	−1810

William "John" Curry	1802-1835 (Yorkshire)

James Botting	1813/17-1819 (London)

John Langley	1814–1817 (London)

James Botting	1817–1820

John Milne (executioner)	1818 (Aberdeen)

Thomas Cheshire	1820-1829 (London; known as "Old Cheese"; assistant from 1808 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1840)

James Foxen	1820–1829 (London; name also given as Foxten)

Samuel Haywood	1820-1848 (Leicestershire & the Midlands)

William Lee	−1827

George Mitchell	1828-1845 (Southwest)

William Calcraft	1829–1874

James Coates	1835-1839 (Yorkshire)

John Scott	1835–1847 (last executioner of Edinburgh)

John Wilkinson	1839-1840 (Yorkshire; no execution carried out)

Nathaniel Howard	1840-1853 (Yorkshire)

George Smith	1843–1872

Thomas Askern	1856–1877 (initially Yorkshire)

Robert Anderson Evans	1873–1883

William Marwood	1872–1883

George Meker, or George Incher	1875–1881 (Staffordshire)

Bartholomew Binns	1883–1884

James Berry	1884–1891 (Home Office List)

James Billington	1884–1901 (Home Office List)

Thomas Henry Scott	1892–1895 (Home Office List)

William Warbrick	1893-1910 (Home Office List)

Thomas Billington	1897–1901 (Home Office List)

Henry Pierrepoint	1900–1910 (Home Office List)

John Ellis	1901–1923 (Home Office List)

William Billington	1902–1905 (Home Office List)

John Billington	1902–1905 (Home Office List)

William Willis	1906–1926 (Home Office List; assistant to John Ellis from 1906; assisted him in the execution of Hawley Harvey Crippen)

Thomas Pierrepoint	1906–1946 (Home Office List)

Robert Baxter	1915–1935 (Home Office List)

Thomas Phillips	1918–1941 (Home Office List)

Robert Wilson	1920–1936 (Home Office List)

Alfred Allen	1928–1937 (Home Office List)

Stanley Cross	1932–1941 (Home Office List)

Albert Pierrepoint	1932–1956 (Home Office List)

Henry Kirk, or Harry Kirk	1941–1950 (Home Office List)

Stephen Wade	1941–1955 (Home Office List)

Henry Bernard Allen	1941–1964 (Home Office List)

Herbert Allen	1949–early 1950s (assistant) not to be confused with Henry Bernard Allen above; both men were known socially as "Harry Allen"

Syd Dernley	1949–1954 (assistant)

Robert Leslie Stewart	1950–1964 (Home Office List)

Royston Lawrence Rickard	1953–1964 (assistant)

Harry Frank Robinson	1958–1964 (assistant)

Samuel Barrass Plant	1961–1964 (assistant)

John Underhill	1963–1964 (assistant)

Sentence(s)

Robert Leslie Stewart became the Executioner.

final_sentence: Robert Leslie Stewart became the Executioner.