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Entry Type	Person
Surname	Wheeldon
Forenames	Alice Ann
Also Known As	nee Marshall
Title	Mrs
Place	Derby
Epithet	pacifist, anti-war and universal suffrage campaigner
Dates	1866-1919
Gender Identity	Female
Biography	Member of the Independent Labour Party. She was convicted in 1917, along with one of her daughters and her son-in-law, of conspiracy to kill the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, though much of the evidence may have been fabricated by MI5.
Key Events	1917 convicted, along with one of her daughters and her son-in-law, of conspiracy to kill the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Dec 1918 released on licence from Aylesbury gaol
Family Tree	Daughter of William Marshall, an engine tenter, and his wife, Ann, née Elliott
Address	12 Pear Tree Road, Derby
Notes	Having begun at the Guildhall in Derby, the 1917 trial was relocated to the Old Bailey. Neither was a local court and the records are held at The National Archives, see REFERENCE DESCRIPTION ASSI 11 Derbyshire Assizes - Crown and Gaol Books ASSI 12 Derbyshire Assizes - Indictments ASSI 13 Derbyshire Assizes - Depositions ASSI 15, 88 Derbyshire Assizes - Other records J 81 Old Bailey - Appeals and criminal petitions CRIM 1 Old Bailey - Witness statements: depositions (notably CRIM 1/166) J 82 Old Bailey - Shorthand notes from trials CRIM 5 Old Bailey - Charges, verdicts and sentences HO 140 Old Bailey - Details of prisoners in after-trial calendars HO 144/13338 CRIMINAL CASES: WHEELDON, Alice Convicted at Central Criminal Court (CCC) on 27 February 1917 for conspiracy to murder (plot to kill Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson)
Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2008), accessed online 28 July 2022
Authorised Form of Name	Wheeldon; Alice Ann (1866-1919); Mrs; pacifist, anti-war and universal suffrage campaigner

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