| 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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