Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and PreventionWestcott, W. Wynn (William Wynn)
Philosophy
Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention
Westcott, W. Wynn (William Wynn)
Suicide
ROMILLY, SIR S., 1818, Jurist and M.P., killed himself three days after
the death of his wife.
CHRISTOPHE, 1820, King of Hayti.
ENGLISHMAN, an, 1820, threw himself into the crater of Vesuvius.
CAMPBELL, SIR G., 1821, English Admiral.
CASTLEREAGH, LORD, 1822, cut his throat.
SAINT SIMON, C. H., 1822, a Frenchman, founder of a religious sect.
BRACHMANN, LUISE, 1822, German poetess.
MONTGOMERY, 1828, took prussic acid, when a prisoner for forgery, in
Newgate.
CONDÉ, PRINCE DE, 1830, hanged himself.
ROBERT LEOPOLD, 1835, painter, cut his throat, from jealousy.
GROS, BARON, 1835, painter, drowned himself from disappointment.
COLTON, C. C., 1832, an eccentric clergyman, author of “Lacon.”
MOYES, MISS E., 1839, jumped off the Monument, London, because her
father, being reduced in circumstances, it was decided that she should
earn her own living.
BERESFORD, LORD JAMES, 1841.
MUNSTER, EARL OF, 1842, son of William IV.
BLANCHARD, LAMAN, 1845, journalist.
HAYDON, B. R., 1846, painter, on account of money troubles, shot
himself.
PRASLIN, DUC DE, 1847, his wife was found murdered; he was arrested on
suspicion, and was found self-slain in prison.
WATTS, WALTER, 1850, Lessee of the Olympic Theatre.
BOURG, ST. EDME, 1851, author; found strangled by his scarf.
LAYARD, LIEUT.-COL., 1853, of “Nineveh” fame.
ROBINSON, REV. T., 1854, threw himself off the cliffs at Dover.
FRANKS, DR., 1855, editor of the _Allgemeine Zeitung_, after killing
his son.
SADLEIR, JOHN, M.P., 1856, by prussic acid, when found guilty of Bank
frauds.
SMART, A., 1856, a watchmaker, threw himself down from the Whispering
Gallery in St. Paul’s.
MILLER, HUGH, 1856, geologist, from overwork.
RUSSELL, CHAS., 1856, Chairman of the Great Western Railway.
MOSER, ISAAC, 1861, a millionaire Jew.
FITZROY, ADMIRAL, 1865, meteorologist.
GREEN, G. W., 1867, a merchant, jumped off Suspension Bridge at Clifton.
WARDER, DR. A. W., 1867, at Brighton, after murdering his wife.
THEODORE, Emperor of Abyssinia, 1868.
LEE, THOMAS, 1868, threw himself from the North Tower of the Crystal
Palace.
PREVOST-PARADOL, 1870, French Minister.
BOWLEY, R. K., 1870, Manager of the Crystal Palace.
MATTHIESSEN, DR., 1870, eminent chemist.
WILLES, SIR JAMES S., 1872, eminent judge, from overwork.
DELAWARR, EARL, 1873, when insane.
ABDUL AZIZ, 1876, Sultan of Turkey, veins of the bend of the arm opened
by scissors.
LYTTLETON, LORD GEORGE, 1876, eminent scholar, when insane.
BUTCHER, DR. SAM., 1876, Bishop of Meath, when insane.
BRANDON, RAPHAEL, 1877, architect.
MAHOMED, ISMAIL KHAN, 1883, an Afghan surgeon, by prussic acid.
CHAPTER IV.
LITERATURE.
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