British Executions

Dorothea Nancy Waddingham

Age: 36

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 16 Apr 1936

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Birmingham

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Waddingham

Dorothea Waddingham murdered Louisa Baguley 89 and Ada Baguley 50 by poisoning them with morphine at 32 Devon Drive, Nottingham.

Dorothea Waddingham ran an unlicenced nursing home which she had converted from her own home and was not a qualified nurse although this was not illegal.

see Murderpedia

see Capital Punishment UK

see Nottingham Post

see National Archives - PCOM 9/797, HO 144/20187, HO 144/20185, HO 144/20186, ASSI 13/66