Garden. Whether she and Coleraine were involved in an affair has never been clearly established. Sandwich was devastated by her death. Hackman attempted to shoot himself following the murder, but only wounded himself, and was arrested. Two days after her 14 April burial, Hackman was sentenced to hanging, and the sentence was carried out on 19 April in front of a large crowd in Tyburn, London. The events surrounding her murder were used in the popular 1780 novel Love and Madness by Herbert Croft. Ray was buried in a vault under a pew in St Nicholas church, Elstree. During renovations of the church in 1824, the vault was re-discovered and Ray's remains moved to an unmarked grave in the churchyard. In 1920, the then Earl of Sandwich had a tombstone erected over the grave. References Bibliography External links Portraits from National Portrait Gallery Details of her murder from a biography of James Hackman The Murder of Martha Ray British History Online, Martha Ray 1746 births 1779 deaths English courtesans British murder victims People murdered in Westminster 18th-century British women singers Violence against women in London