Arthur Thistlewood

(1774-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820 NRA: Thistlewood Arthur (1770-1820) Cato Street Conspirator DNB: Thistlewood, Arthur (bap. 1774, d. 1820), radical and revolutionary LBT ID: ArThist1820 VIAF ID: 15204080 LOC ID: n86095426	B/BAP: 1774-12-04 DIED: 1820-05-01
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English radical and disciple of Thomas Spence; he was hanged after the exposure of an assassination plot against the British cabinet.
REFERENCES TO Arthur Thistlewood: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 17 June 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 1 March 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 21 April 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1821 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 2: ¶ 30 ¶ 34 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 39 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 44