Eugene Aram

(1704-1759)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759 DNB: Aram, Eugene (bap. 1704, d. 1759), murderer and philologist LBT ID: EuAram1759 VIAF ID: 52043684 LOC ID: n82221931	B/BAP: 1704-10-02 DIED: 1759-08-06
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English autodidact, schoolmaster, and philologist executed in 1759 for the 1745 murder of the shoemaker Daniel Clark, his accomplice in an embezzlement scheme. Aram became the subject of a poem by Thomas Hood and a novel by Bulwer Lytton.
REFERENCES TO Eugene Aram: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 10 June 1827 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 19 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XI. 1824-1832 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 12