Eugene Aram and Daniel Clarke blue plaque

Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Eugene Aram was an 18th century schoolteacher who lived and taught here in White Horse Yard. He was an exceptional linguist, and studied in particular Celtic dialects. He has been the subject of many books, plays, poems and a film. Eugene Aram became notorious for his supposed involvement in the mur

der of another resident here, Daniel Clarke. He was convicted on very dubious evidence, and executed at York on 6th August 1759.

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