convicted of treason for his part in the Cato Street Conspiracy and, together with co-conspirators John Thomas Brunt, William Davidson, John Ings and Richard Tidd, was publicly hanged and decapitated outside Newgate Prison on 1 May 1820. References Further reading Chase, Malcolm. "Thistlewood, Arthur (bap. 1774, d. 1820)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); online edn, Sept 2010 accessed 12 Sept 2014 Johnson, D. Regency revolution: the case of Arthur Thistlewood (1975). Smith, Alan. "Arthur Thistlewood a Regency Republican", History Today (1953) 3#12, pp. 846–852. Stanhope, J. The Cato Street conspiracy (1962). Thompson, E. P. The making of the English working class (rev. ed., 1968), pp. 693-695 & 761-775. The Times, Tuesday, 2 May 1820 at p. 3, includes a short but detailed biography appended to detailed accounts of the execution. Arthur Thistlewood is the central character in Miles Craven's novel, A Street Named Cato (2021). External links 1774 births 1820 deaths Executed people from Lincolnshire English criminals 19th-century executions by the United Kingdom People executed for treason against the United Kingdom People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging 1817 crimes in the United Kingdom 1820 crimes in the United Kingdom English revolutionaries