** Edith Thompson, British murderer ( hanged ) ( b. 1893 )

* December 11 – End of the trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson at the Old Bailey.

* Edith Thompson ( 1893 – 1923 ), executed in Holloway prison in 1923

* 1923, 9 January: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, in London's Holloway and Pentonville Prisons respectively, for the murder of Thompson's husband.

Howard Maxford, author of The A-Z of Hitchcock: Ultimate Reference Guide, notes that some aspects of the Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters case have similarities to the plot of Stage Fright.

With the exception of Ruth Ellis, the remains of the four other women executed at Holloway ( Amelia Sach, Annie Walters, Edith Thompson and Styllou Christofi ) were subsequently reburied in a single grave at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey

* Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters-" The Sheath Knife "

The five patients were Ralph Orlando, a construction worker seriously injured in a scaffold collapse, John O ' Connor, a middle aged dispatcher suffering from fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck, Peter Luchesi, a young man who severs his hand in an accident, Sylvia Thompson, an airline passenger who suffers chest pains, and Edith Murphy, a mother of three who is diagnosed with a life threatening disease.

composite of photographs of British Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, executed for murder in January 1923.

Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters

Edith Jessie Thompson ( 25 December 1893 – 9 January 1923 ) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters ( 27 June 1902 – 9 January 1923 ) were a British couple who were executed for the murder of Thompson ’ s husband Percy.

Edith Thompson was born Edith Jessie Graydon on Christmas Day 1893, at 97 Norfolk Road in Dalston, London, the first of the five children of William Eustace Graydon ( 1867 – 1941 ), a clerk with the Imperial Tobacco Company, and his wife, Ethel Jessie Liles ( 1872 – 1938 ), the daughter of a police constable.

In 1920, the couple became acquainted with 18-year-old Freddy Bywaters, although Bywaters and Edith Thompson had met nine years earlier when Bywaters, then aged nine, had been a school friend of Edith ’ s younger brother.

From September 1921 until September 1922, Bywaters was at sea, and during this time Edith Thompson wrote to him frequently.

After a violent struggle, during which Edith Thompson was also knocked to the ground, Percy was stabbed.

As police investigated further they arrested Bywaters, and upon discovering a series of more than sixty love letters from Edith Thompson to Bywaters, arrested her, too.

The letters were the only tangible evidence linking Edith Thompson to the murder, and allowed for the consideration of common purpose, namely that if two people wish to achieve the death of a third, and one of these people acts on the expressed intentions of both, both are equally guilty by law.

In these, Edith Thompson passionately declared her love for Bywaters, and her desire to be free of Percy.

Bywaters stated that Edith Thompson had known nothing of his plans, nor could she have, as he had not intended to murder her husband.

Edith Thompson was one of only seventeen women hanged in the United Kingdom during the 20th century.

Rene Weis echoes a trend of recent and older suggestions that Edith Thompson was innocent of murder.

In contrast, in a memorable episode in the show's second season, Edith uncharacteristically snaps at Archie, repeatedly telling him ( as he frequently did to her ) to " stifle ".

It is stated that Roger and Edith Stone from The Rolling Stones are now living in Fiddler's Green.

With the next collection of poems, Framtidens skugga (" The Shadow of the Future ") ( whose original title was " Köttets mysterier " (" Mysteries of the Flesh ")), the visions that had exhorted Södergran culminate in poems speaking of a renewed world after the wars and catastrophes that now ravage the Earth-Raivola was, as stated earlier a war zone in 1918 and even later Edith was able to hear gunfire from her kitchen window.

For example, in a conversation with Gloria, Edith stated that she favored capital punishment, " as long as it ain't too severe.

Jean Stapleton had wished to leave her role ( in interviews, Stapleton has stated the role of Edith had reached its potential ).

She was born 11 months after Edith and Archie were married as stated in the episode The Longest Kiss Season 5, Episode 10.

In discussing the letters, Bywaters stated that he had never believed Edith had attempted to harm her husband, but that he believed she had a vivid imagination, fuelled by the novels she enjoyed reading, and in her letters she viewed herself in some way as one of these fictional characters.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

In 1568, Edith had given birth to a daughter named Anne, but the child died aged about seven weeks, in November that year.

The very same evening ( 28 July 1927 ) after Gardner had met this medium, he met the woman he was to marry ; Dorothea Frances Rosedale, known as Donna, a relation of his sister-in-law Edith.

" Gardner's biographer Philip Heselton theorised that this group consisted of Edith Woodford-Grimes ( 1887 – 1975 ), Susie Mason, her brother Ernie Mason, and their sister Rosetta Fudge, all of whom had originally come from Southampton before moving to the area around Highcliffe, where they joined the Order.

He had three children by Matilda ( Edith ), who died on 1 May 1118 at the Palace of Westminster.

He came to believe himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a spiritual experience that he and his wife, Rose Edith, had in Egypt in 1904.

Edward had married Edith, Godwin's daughter, in 1043, and Godwin appears to have been one of the main supporters of Edward's claim to the throne.

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

For some twenty years Harold was married More danico ( Latin: " in the Danish manner ") to Edith Swannesha and had at least six children with her.

Edith had two sons — possibly twins — named Harold and Ulf ( born around November 1066 ), both of whom survived into adulthood and probably lived out their lives in exile.

Edith was restored as queen, and Stigand, who had again acted as an intermediary between the two sides in the crisis, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in Robert's place.

One school of thought supports the Norman case that Edward always intended William the Conqueror to be his heir, accepting the medieval claim that Edward had already decided to be celibate before he married, but most historians believe that he hoped to have an heir by Edith at least until his quarrel with Godwin in 1051.

His Anglo-Irish father, Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, who in 1914 inherited the title of Westmeath in Ireland as seventh Baronet, had left his wife Edith for his daughters ' governess Sarah Junner.

By her teenage years, however, Edith had become an atheist.

In 1915, Schiele chose to marry the more socially acceptable Edith, but had apparently expected to maintain a relationship with Wally.

Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert ( 1915 – 1994 ), and a younger sister, Mary Edith ( 1923 – 2005 ).

His niece Edith ( renamed Matilda ), daughter of Malcolm III and Margaret, had married Henry in 1100.

After Mrs. Wilson's August 1914 death the project languished until the second Mrs. Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, had their installation restarted and completed in 1916.

He married Edith Eleanore Milbrandt on 14 February 1952 and they had three daughters, Catherine, Julie, Susan, and a son, David.

During the Depression, Phil and Edith had won about $ 175 000 in the Irish Sweepstakes, so were relatively well off.

Edith had dower rights to the town of Exeter, which may explain her presence at the ceremony.

The site has had four names: Camp Edith Macy ( C. E. M.

This led to a serious breach with other family members, notably his former Pre-Raphaelite colleague Thomas Woolner, who had once been in love with Fanny and had married Alice, the third sister of Fanny and Edith.