William Hare

(1792 c.-1829 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hare, William, 1792?-1870? DNB: Hare, William (b. 1792/1804), murderer LBT ID: WiHare1829 VIAF ID: 68510668 LOC ID: no95007244	B/BAP: 1792
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With his accomplice William Burke he murdered Edinburgh paupers and sold their bodies for dissection; he was released after turning king's evidence.
REFERENCES TO William Hare: Charles Lamb to Bryan Waller Procter, 22 January 1829 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Robert Cadell, 12 December 1830 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter VII 1830-31 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829 Found 1: ¶ 4