William Marvell

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William Marvell was an English executioner in the eighteenth century.

Marvell, a blacksmith by trade,Abbott, Geoffrey. [https://books.google.com/books?id=suNPDerI7-kC What a Way to Go] (Macmillan, 2007), p. 195. conducted hangings at Tyburn starting in 1715. He lost his job due to debt in November 1717,[http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hangedt.html "Being hanged at Tyburn"]. capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 2010-11-23. and two years later he was convicted of theft after stealing "10 silk handkerchiefs."[http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F17191014.xml "Old Bailey Proceedings, fourteenth October 1719"]. oldbaileyonline.org. Retrieved 2010-11-23.