Jeremiah Brandreth (1785 – 7 November 1817) was an out-of-work stocking maker, living in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, who was executed for treason after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the Government of the United Kingdom.

Jeremiah Brandreth as he appeared on his trial for High Treason at the Special Assizes held in Derby |

2023年11月7日 · With his fellow revolutionary leaders, William Turner and Isaac Ludlam, Jeremiah Brandreth was the last person to be beheaded by the British state. The use of such a medieval punishment was a sign of how much the ruling class in Georgian Britain wanted to secure the political obedience of workers through terror.

Jeremiah Brandreth (1817) Thirty-five of the men were charged with high treason. Brandreth and two others were sentenced to death and another eleven men were transported for life. The men were originally sentenced to being hanged, drawn and quartered, but the quartering was remitted.

A disemployed stocking maker, Brandreth, known as "The Nottingham Captain," was executed for treason on November 7, 1817 for plotting to overthrow the Government of the United Kingdom. He was believed to have been involved in Luddite activities in …

Its actual leader was Jeremiah Brandreth, a 27 year old man who had worked in a number of trades, and had only recently moved into the area. Taking charge a few days before 8 June, he organised support from the area around Pentrich.

Jeremiah Brandreth, known as the “Nottingham Captain,” was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful Pentrich Rising against the British government. Brandreth was born in Wilford, Nottingham, and became a stocking maker by trade.

Brandreth, Jeremiah, -1817: The trials of Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner, Isaac Ludlam, George Weightman, and others, for high treason, under a special commission at Derby, on Thursday the 16th, Friday the 17th, Saturday the 18th, Monday the 20th, Tuesday the 21st, Wednesday the 22d, Thursday the 23d, Friday the 24th, and Saturday the 25th ...

Meet the man who led the march of the Revolutionaries. Jeremiah Brandreth was not from the local area of Pentrich and South Wingfield. He was appointed by the Nottingham Committee, including Thomas Bacon a Pentrich man who had long been planning the local insurrection.

2020年4月15日 · To celebrate the Nottingham Castle Trust’s #VoicesofToday campaign, we’re launching a brand new weekly series that explores stories of fighting injustice and acts of rebellion from Nottingham’s history. Starting with Jeremiah Brandreth, the ‘Nottingham Captain’, Luddite and leader of the Pentrich Uprising…