heard a carriage driver calling the family name. He made his way towards the carriage he assumed was his, "and there appeared a flashy Creole and a flashy young lady on his arm, and they both stepped into it." In popular culture Madame Tussauds famous waxworks in London showcased an effigy of Edward Despard, using him as one of the first British criminals to be featured in her ‘Adjoining Room’, now known as the Chamber of Horrors. Despard appears as a character in the fifth (2015) series of the popular British television drama Poldark, played by Vincent Regan . The screenplay is based on the historical novels of Winston Graham. References Bibliography Conner, Clifford D., Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel. Combined Publishing, 2000. . Jay, Mike, The Unfortunate Colonel Despard. Bantam Press, 2004. . Linebaugh, Peter. Red Round Globe Hot Burning. University of California Press, 2019. . Oman, Charles William Chadwick. Unfortunate Colonel Despard and Other Studies. Burt Franklin, 1922. People from County Laois 1751 births 1803 deaths 18th-century Irish people 19th-century Irish people Executed revolutionaries People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 United Irishmen People executed for treason against the United Kingdom Executed Irish people 19th-century executions by England and Wales Royal Navy officers Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War People imprisoned for debt Irish people of French descent Governors of British Honduras