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    Frederick Henry Seddon (sometimes spelled Sedden) (21 January 1872 – 18 April 1912) was a British murderer hanged in 1912 for the arsenic poisoning murder...
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    Television series Ladykillers she played Margaret Seddon, wife of the Edwardian poisoner Frederick Seddon, in an episode entitled "Root of All Evil." While...
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  • upon military personnel. Among those he executed was the poisoner Frederick Seddon in 1912 and double murderer Dr Buck Ruxton in 1936. During World War...
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    were those of Hawley Harvey Crippen (known as Dr. Crippen) in 1910, Frederick Seddon in 1912, Sir Roger Casement in 1916, Herbert Rowse Armstrong in 1922...
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  • been used by several convicted murderers, among them Lyda Southard, Frederick Seddon, Florence Maybrick, and the Angel Makers of Nagyrév. Most modern brands...
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  • League baseball pitcher Frederick Seddon (1870–1912), British murderer Gareth Seddon (born 1980), English footballer George Seddon (academic) (1927–2007)...
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    Frederick Seddon being sentenced to death in 1912 by Mr Justice Bucknill; the only known photograph of the death sentence being passed in an English court...
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    Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts...
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    execution was the last public hanging in the UK. 1 April 1872: William Frederick Horry was hanged at Lincoln Castle. This was the first execution in history...
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    In 1912, the poisoner Frederick Seddon (leaning on the dock, left) was sentenced to death by Mr Justice Bucknill wearing a black cap (right)...
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