Person    | Male  Born 15/5/1645  Died 18/4/1689

George Jeffreys

Categories: Law

Judge. First Baron Jeffreys, known as the 'Hanging Judge'. Born at Acton Park, near Wrexham in Denbighshire. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1683 and Lord Chancellor in 1685. Most famously, he presided over the 'Bloody Assizes' trials which followed the Monmouth Rebellion.  After the fall of King James II he attempted to flee Britain but was captured in the Town of Ramsgate Pub and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he died, not of beheading, but of kidney disease.

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George Jeffreys

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George Jeffreys

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