The Queen's Assassin

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Andrews, Jonathan (1997). The History of Bethlem. London: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-4150-1773-2. Pentland, Gordon (April 2023). " 'An Offence New in Its Kind': Responses to Assassination Attempts on British Royalty, 1800–1900". Journal of British Studies. 62 (2): 418–444. doi: 10.1017/jbr.2022.177.

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The law may be perfect, but how is it that whenever a case for its application arises, it proves to be of no avail? We have seen the trials of Oxford and MacNaghten conducted by the ablest lawyers of the day—Lord Denman, Chief Justice Tindal, and Sir Wm. Follett, —and they allow and advise the Jury to pronounce the verdict of Not Guilty on account of Insanity,—whilst everybody is morally convinced that both malefactors were perfectly conscious and aware of what they did! It appears from this; that the force of the law is entirely put into the Judge's hands, and that it depends merely upon his charge whether the law is to be applied or not. [130] We know that it’s going to cost us a fortune, half a million dollars, but we’re not fighting it just for us. Freddie: Just have to give me that first guitar, after this you have to give me a guitar entry, yeah? Bedlam". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OED/1101861163 . Retrieved 29 July 2023. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)

Barnes, Tom (14 January 2018). "The Queen was almost assassinated by a teenager in New Zealand, former police officer claims". The Independent. United Kingdom . Retrieved 15 January 2018. Freeman, John (1862), Papers of John Freeman, 1862–1889 , retrieved 11 September 2023 at the National Library of Australia He added that algorithms used for analyzing concurrent version systems ( CVS) also risk producing bias against enthic minorities, disabled people and LGBTQ plus community. Oxford's trial, and the later M'Naghten case led to an overhaul of the law on criminal insanity in England. In January 1843 Daniel M'Naghten murdered Edward Drummond—the private secretary to the Prime Minister—mistaking him for the Prime Minister, Robert Peel. Like Oxford, M'Naghten was also found not guilty because of insanity. The cases of Oxford and M'Naghten prompted the judiciary to frame the M'Naghten rules on instructions to be given to a jury for a defence of insanity. Mr Ahmed, who give evidence on the draft Online Safety Bill in September 2021, said legislators are “struggling to keep up” with the pace of the tech industry.

Freemon, Frank R. (September 2001). "The Origin of the Medical Expert Witness: The Insanity of Edward Oxford". Journal of Legal Medicine. 22 (3): 349–374. doi: 10.1080/01947640152596434. PMID 11602941. S2CID 71827199. Sinclair, Jenny (2019). Lights and Shadows in Australian Historical Fiction: how Does Historical Fiction Deal with how Australia Comes to Know its Past? (PhD thesis). University of Melbourne. In 1888 Oxford published Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life, a factual work that provides sketches of life in both the wealthy and seamy parts of nineteenth-century Melbourne. [110] Some of the information came from the articles that he had written for The Argus. [111] He included chapters on the zoo and the racecourse and information on churches and markets. His first chapter was titled "What we Have in our Midst", and examines the city's slums, poverty and opium dens. [112] [113] Oxford sent a copy to the former steward at Bethlem Hospital, Haydon, who had travelled through Melbourne in the 1840s and had written about the area. In the accompanying note, Oxford wrote "You are the only man in the world, besides myself, who could connect me with the book.... Even my wife, the sharer of my joys and sorrows, is no wiser than the rest of the world." [114] [115] Haydon and Oxford continued their correspondence until Haydon's death in November 1891. [116]

Oxford accepted, and on 22 October 1867, aged 45 and after 27 years of confinement, he was released. He was photographed and his image was distributed to police stations to ensure he would be recognised if he returned. [92] Australia: 1867–1900 [ edit ] Oxford in 1889 On leaving Broadmoor, Oxford wrote to one of the stewards at Bethlem, [l] George Henry Haydon, thanking him for "all of the kindness I have received at your hands"; [94] on the question of his emigration, he told Haydon: Soon after his arrival at Broadmoor, Oxford appealed for release to Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, with the support of the chairman of Broadmoor, the deputy superintendent, the hospital's resident doctor and the prison surgeon. Grey ignored the request. In 1867 Gathorne Hardy, who had taken over as Home Secretary, wrote to the governor of Broadmoor, asking for a report on Oxford; he received a certificate attesting to Oxford's sanity. Hardy offered Oxford release, conditional on his emigration to the colonies, never to return to Britain. [91] [84]Queen Victoria. "Journal Entry: Wednesday 10th June 1840". Queen Victoria's Journals . Retrieved 9 July 2023. Oxford was arrested and charged with high treason. A jury found that he was not guilty by reason of insanity and he was detained indefinitely at Her Majesty's pleasure at the two State Criminal Lunatic Asylums: first at Bethlem Royal Hospital and then, after 1864, Broadmoor Hospital. Visitors and staff did not consider him insane. In leaving England forever I do what is certainly the best, for a man who has once been in the grip of the law... It makes no matter what his offence, or whether he has paid the full pound of flesh ten-times over, the taint clings to him like a leprosy, & makes men worse than himself affect airs of superiority over him. All that, at a distance, & where he is unknown, is prevented. He can then find his own level, by putting on the bold front necessary... in the future no man shall say I am unworthy of the name of an Englishman. [95] Queen Elizabeth II calms her horse while policemen spring to action after shots were heard as she rode down the mall during Trooping the Color in 1981 Photo: PA Images via Getty Images