Thomas Griffiths Wainewright ( October 1794 – 17 August 1847 ) was an English artist, writer and criminal, widely believed to have been a multiple poisoner.

Wainewright was born into affluence and London literary society in Richmond, London, England but was orphaned when he was very young.

He was educated at the expense of his distant relative, Charles Burney, the headmaster of the Greenwich academy that Wainewright attended.

In the 1960s the author Donald McCormick would also discuss that Wainewright was a friend of William Corder, the murderer of Maria Marten in the Red Barn Murder in Polestead, England in 1827.

Wainewright retired to Boulogne in July Monarchy France, was seized by the authorities as a suspected person and imprisoned for six months.

It is likely, as suggested by Havelock Ellis, that Wainewright was never normal after the hypochondriac period of his life when he was on the verge of insanity if not actually insane.

The Essays and Criticisms of Wainewright were published in 1880, with an account of his life, by W. Carew Hazlitt ; and the history of his crimes suggested to Charles Dickens his story of Hunted Down and to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton his novel of Lucretia.

Wainewright has been the subject of three biographical studies: Janus Wethercock by Jonathan Curling ( Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1938 ) and Robert Crossland's Wainewright in Tasmania ( OUP, Melbourne, 1954 ), and more recently his life and writings, and that which has been written about him were the basis of the poet Andrew Motion's creative biography, Wainewright the Poisoner ( 2000 ).

– Phil Wainewright, ZDNet, 16 March 2006.

Wainewright subsequently served as an officer in the guards and as cornet in a yeomanry regiment.

On 13 November, 1817, Wainewright married Eliza Frances Ward.

Wainewright had inherited £ 5250 from his grandfather, invested in his name.

Wainewright completed over one hundred portraits on paper using coloured wash, pencil and ink during his years in Hobart.

Wainewright had a conditional pardon granted 14 November 1846, he died of apoplexy in the Hobart Town hospital on 17 August 1847.

Curling, Janus Weathercock ( Lond, 1938 ); R. Crossland, Wainewright in Tasmania ( Melb, 1954 ); CSO 5, 8 and 11 ( Archives Office of Tasmania ); convict records ( Archives Office of Tasmania ); G. T. W. B. Boyes diary ( Royal Society of Tasmania ); humble petition of T. G. Wainewright ( State Library of New South Wales ).

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