Eugene Aram (1704-1759)
English autodidact, schoolmaster, and philologist executed in 1759 for the 1745 murder of
the shoemaker Daniel Clark, his accomplice in an embezzlement scheme. Aram became the
subject of a poem by Thomas Hood and a novel by Bulwer Lytton.
English autodidact, schoolmaster, and philologist executed in 1759 for the 1745 murder of
the shoemaker Daniel Clark, his accomplice in an embezzlement scheme. Aram became the
subject of a poem by Thomas Hood and a novel by Bulwer Lytton.
