Thistlewood, Arthur

Thistlewood, Arthur

▪ British revolutionary
born 1774, Tupholme, Lincolnshire, Eng.
died May 1, 1820, London

      revolutionary who in 1820, a time of economic distress and radical unrest in England, organized the Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate all the members of the British Cabinet.

      The son of a successful farmer, Thistlewood visited the United States and France and returned to England in 1794 obsessed with the idea that the first duty of a patriot was to overthrow the government. He served in the army briefly, then drifted rather aimlessly until December 1816, when he helped plan an uprising (the Spa Fields Riot) in which the Bank of England and the Tower of London were to be seized. After the rioters were dispersed, Thistlewood and another conspirator were arrested but were eventually acquitted. Thistlewood was imprisoned (1818–19), however, for issuing a challenge to a duel to the 1st Viscount Sidmouth, a former prime minister. (As home secretary Sidmouth had been chiefly responsible for the Six Acts of 1819, which were intended to suppress radical movements.)

      Released from prison, Thistlewood learned that the Cabinet ministers had arranged to dine at the Earl of Harrowby's house in Grosvenor Square, London, on Feb. 23, 1820. The police heard of Thistlewood's plot to murder the Cabinet members, and, on the evening of the 23rd, as Thistlewood and several armed accomplices were preparing to leave a room in Cato Street for Grosvenor Square, officers appeared and arrested some of them. Thistlewood himself escaped but was captured the next day. Found guilty of high treason, he and four others were hanged.

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