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William Burke
(1792-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Burke, William, 1792-1829
DNB:    Burke, William (1792–1829), murderer
LBT ID: WiBurke1829    VIAF ID: 36791109    LOC ID: nr93025899
B/BAP:   1792
DIED:   1829-01-28
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Irish-born cobbler who with his accomplice William Hare murdered Edinburgh paupers and sold their bodies for dissection.
REFERENCES TO William Burke:
Charles Lamb to Bryan Waller Procter, 22 January 1829 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)
Found 1:   ¶ 2   
Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth, 4 February 1829 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)
Found 1:   ¶ 4   
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