The last public execution in Glasgow: the case of Dr Edward Pritchard, M.D

Dr Edward Pritchard, a Glasgow medical practitioner, was the last person to be executed in public in Glasgow. In a famous trial of the time, he was condemned to death for murdering his wife and his mother-in-law, and he was hanged on Glasgow Green in 1865. An account of Dr Pritchard's life, his trial and his death is given here, together with a reference to the medical examination which was carried out on Pritchard's remains when his grave was exhumed in 1910.