British Executions

Samuel Yeandell

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: unknown

Date Of Execution: 10 Apr 1788

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Field, Ilchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Samuel Yeandell (aged 30) guilty of being an accessory before the fact of a burglary in the dwelling house of Sir William Rea in the parish of Taunton, St James on 8th February 1787.  After execution his body was hanged in chains opposite Sir William Rea’s house.