The Cato Street Conspiracy was a plot to kill which British Prime Minister?
Cato Street Conspiracy Cato Street Conspiracy The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place near Edgware Road in London. The police had an informer and the plotters fell into a police trap and 13 were arrested, while one policeman was killed. Five conspirators were executed, and five others were transported to Australia. How widespread the Cato Street conspiracy was is uncertain. It was a time of unrest; rumours abounded. Malcolm Chase noted that, "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably
Cato Street Conspiracy of purposeful entrapment of the conspirators to smear the campaign for parliamentary reform. The otherwise pro-government newspaper "The Observer" ignored the order of the Lord Chief Justice Sir Charles Abbott not to report the trial before the sentencing. The conspiracy is the subject of many books, as well as one play, "Cato Street", written by the actor and author Robert Shaw. The conspiracy was also the basis for a 2001 radio drama, "Betrayal: The Trial of William Davidson" by Tanika Gupta, on BBC Radio 4. Cato Street Conspiracy The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British