Rhynwick Williams [London Monster]

(1767 c.-1790 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Williams, Renwick LBT ID: RhWilli1790 VIAF ID: 29636384 LOC ID: nr93043089	B/BAP: 1767
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A sexual predator who assaulted women with a knife between 1788 and 1790; he was sent to prison, but some believed that he was wrongfully convicted.
REFERENCES TO Rhynwick Williams [London Monster]: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 Found 1: ¶ Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Blackwood’s Magazine, John Bull, and the Beacon” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 657-59 Found 1: ¶ 3