Richard Patch

(1770 c.-1806)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Patch, Richard, d. 1806 DNB: Patch, Richard (1770?–1806), murderer LBT ID: RiPatch1806 VIAF ID: 65661903 LOC ID: n92035260	B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1806-04-08
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
A former farmer convicted of the murder of Isaac Blight; he was hung along with the coiners Benjamin and Sarah Herring.
REFERENCES TO Richard Patch: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 30 November 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIII. 1818