John Austin (highwayman) John Austin (highwayman) John Austin (died 7 November 1783) was an English footpad who became the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows outside London. He was sentenced to death for the murder of a labourer called John Spicer from Kent. The Recorder of London, James Adair, described it as a "robbery with violence" that involved "cutting and wounding [...] in a cruel manner." This hanging would mark the end of Tyburn, a village then in the county of Middlesex, being a place of executions for almost 600 years. Austin was brought from Newgate prison in the City
John Austin (Jesuit) genere prseclare meruit, omnibus omnia factus ut omnes Christo lucrifaceret"." A portrait of Austin, painted by George Petrie, and engraved by Henry Brocas, was published in 1792. John Austin (Jesuit) John Austin, S.J. (12 April 1717, Dublin - 29 September 1784, Dublin), was an Irish Jesuit. Austin was a noted educator and preacher. John Austin was born in Dublin on 12 April 1717. As a young man, Austin left Ireland for France where, at the age of 18, he entered the Society of Jesus in Nancy on 27 November 1735. He made his vows on 28 November 1737. He studied