The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Cooke

The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England

Elizabeth Cooke

304 pages 2011

1 edition

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious medium-paced
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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, ...

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