Cato Street conspiracy facts for kids
The Cato Street conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. Cato Street was their meeting-place, near Edgware Road in London.
The police had an informer. The plotters fell into a police trap. 13 were arrested, and 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. Chase notes that, "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably shoemakers, were prepared to lend support, while unrest and awareness of a planned rising were widespread in the industrial north and on Clydeside".
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The London building where the conspirators were discovered which is today marked by a blue plaque
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The execution of the Cato Street conspirators, 1 May 1820
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Print from May 1820 showing establishment figures dancing around a maypole (a reference to the date of the conspirators' execution, May Day 1820). On top of the maypole are the heads of: John Thomas Brunt (1782–1820); William Davidson (1781–1820); James Ings (1794–1820); Arthur Thistlewood (1774–1820); and, Richard Tidd (1773–1820).
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In Spanish: Conspiración de Cato Street para niños
