Alexander Claydon

Alexander Claydon was convicted of the murder of his wife Louisa Claydon and sentenced to death.

He beat her to death with a heavy file and stabbed her multiple times on Sunday 7 July 1901.

After he went for a four mile walk but was picked up by the police who thought he needed help and he admitted that he had just killed his wife.

Alexander Claydon grew up in Islington with his mother and father and had three brothers and a sister. His father was a shoemaker and very much given to drink and committed suicide by cutting his throat in about 1868 in the vicinity of Balls Pond in Islington. After his father committed suicide Alexander Claydon went to live with his uncle for about seven years and then went to America where he met a woman and married her. He later returned with her to England and lived with her in Dunster Street and Portland Street and when she died he married Louisa Claydon in 1890.