British Executions

Edward Cobbett

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 23 Jul 1773

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Buckinghamshire

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Friday, 23 July 1773 (Reading Mercury)

Edward Cobbett guilty of the murder of Richard Holt.

After execution his body was hanged in chains at Birton.