Thomas Bucknill

Mr Justice Bucknill as caricatured by 'Spy' in 1900
Mr Justice Bucknill sentencing Frederick Seddon to death in 1912. This is the only known photograph of the death sentence being pronounced in England.

Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill (18 April 1845 – 4 October 1915)[1] was an English judge of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a Member of Parliament and a Privy Councillor.[2]

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Bucknill, Sir Thomas Townsend" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 515.
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition