The damnation of John Donellan
Subtitle: a mysterious case of death & scandal in Georgian England
By: Elizabeth Cooke
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781846684821; 9781847657527
Subjects: Death and burial; Trials, litigation; Investigation; Murder; History
Description: In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was hanged for his murder. The trial was a shambles. And was Donellan guilty?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.