Jack Ketch

(d. 1686)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ketch, Jack, d. 1686 DNB: Ketch [Catch], John [Jack] (d. 1686), public executioner LBT ID: JaKetch1686 VIAF ID: 43261373 LOC ID: n85035380	DIED: 1686-11
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The common hangman of London during the reign of Charles II; among his better-known victims were Lord Russell and the Duke of Monmouth.
REFERENCES TO Jack Ketch: Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 13 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 1: ¶ 59 Horace Smith to Cyrus Redding, [1822] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [9 January 1824] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 5: 1817-18 Found 1: ¶ 31 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1824