Arthur Thistlewood was the main conspirator in which plot of 1820?
Arthur Thistlewood and decapitated outside Newgate Prison on 1 May 1820. Arthur Thistlewood Arthur Thistlewood (1774–1 May 1820) was a British radical activist and conspirator in the Cato Street Conspiracy. He planned to murder the cabinet, but there was a spy and he was apprehended with 12 other conspirators. He killed a policeman during the raid. He was executed for treason. He was born in Tupholme in Lincolnshire, the extramarital son of a farmer and stockbreeder. He attended Horncastle Grammar School and was trained as a land surveyor. Unsatisfied with his job, he obtained a commission in the army at the age
William Davidson (conspirator) was prejudiced against black people. However, his presence at the scene with a blunderbuss led to his conviction. On 28 April 1820, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd, Arthur Thistlewood, and John Brunt were found guilty of high treason, and sentenced to death. John Harrison, James Wilson, Richard Bradburn, John Strange and Charles Copper were also found guilty. However their death sentences were subsequently commuted to transportation for life. William Davidson, with his four fellow conspirators, was publicly hanged and decapitated outside Newgate Prison on 1 May 1820. William Davidson (conspirator) William Davidson (1781–1820) was a British African-Caribbean radical executed