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See also:BURKE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1792–1829) , Irish criminal, was See also:born in See also:Ireland in 1792. After trying his+See also:hand at a variety of trades there, he went to See also:Scotland about 1817 as a See also:navvy, and in 1827 was living in a lodging-See also:house in See also:Edinburgh kept by William See also:Hare, another Irish labourer. Towards the end of that See also:year one of Hare's lodgers, an old See also:army pensioner, died. This was the See also:period of the See also:body-snatchers or Resurrectionists, and Hare and Burke, aware that See also:money could always be obtained for a See also:corpse, sold the body to Dr See also:Robert See also:Knox, a leading Edinburgh anatomist, for £7, sos. The See also:price obtained and the simplicity of the transaction suggested to Hare an easy method of making a
profitable livelihood, and Burke at once See also:fell in with the See also:plan. The ttiwo men inveigled obscure travellers to Hare's or some other lodging-house, made them drunk and then suffocated them, taking care to leave no marks of violence. The bodies were sold to Dr Knox for prices averaging from £8 to £14. At least fifteen victims had been disposed of in this way when the suspicions of the See also:police were aroused, and Burke and Hare were arrested. The latter turned See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:evidence, and Burke was found guilty and hanged at Edinburgh on the 28th of See also:January 1829. Hare found it impossible, in view of the strong popular feeling, to remain in Scotland. He is believed to have died in See also:England under an assumed name. From Burke's method of killing his victims has come the verb "to burke," meaning to suffocate, strangle or suppress secretly, or to kill with the See also:object of selling the body for the purposes of See also:dissection. .
See See also:George See also:Macgregor, See also:History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (See also:Glasgow, 1884).
End of Article: BURKE, WILLIAM (1792–1829)
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