British Executions

John Brighton

Age: 34

Sex: male

Crime: Forgery

Date Of Execution: 27 Mar 1802

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Winchester Gallows Hill

Method: hanging

Executioner:

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/1800.html

Hampshire

John Brighton (aged 34) guilty of a forging and uttering a £5 Bank of England Note to defraud Henry Newland in the parish of Alverstoke on 1st August 1801.