22 Facts About James Hackman

James Hackman's father had served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant.

James Hackman was apprenticed to a mercer, and although according to some accounts he became a member of St John's College, Cambridge, no record of this can be traced at Cambridge.

In 1772, James Hackman was purchased a commission as an ensign in the 68th Regiment of Foot, and in 1776 was promoted lieutenant, but by early 1777 he had resigned from the army to become a cleric.

James Hackman was "a lady of an elegant person, great sweetness of manners, and of a remarkable judgement and execution in vocal and instrumental music" who had lived with Lord Sandwich as his wife since the age of seventeen and had given birth to nine of his children.

James Hackman was a patron of the explorer Captain James Cook, who named the Sandwich Islands after him .

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James Hackman struck up a friendship with Martha Ray and was later reported to have become besotted with her.

James Hackman then beat himself with both discharged pistols until he was arrested and taken, with Ray's body, into a tavern in St James's Street.

Two letters were found on James Hackman, one addressed to his brother-in-law, Frederick Booth, and a love letter to Ray: both later appeared in evidence at the murder trial.

James Hackman thought the pistol had been "fired out of wantonness" and that Miss Ray had fainted.

James Hackman knelt to help her, but found blood on his hands, and got her into the Shakspeare tavern.

James Hackman said, he knew a Mr Booth, in Craven-street in the Strand, and desired he might be sent for.

James Hackman fell with her hand so [describing it as being on her forehead] and died before she could be got to the first lamp; I believe she died immediately, for her head hung directly.

James Hackman beat himself violently over the head with his pistols, and desired somebody would kill him.

James Hackman had seen nothing of the lady until two or three minutes later he saw her lying at the bar, with a mortal wound, and said he could not help her.

James Hackman found the wound to be mortal, could find no sign of life, and pronounced the woman dead.

James Hackman admitted that he had killed Ray, but he claimed he had only meant to kill himself.

James Hackman told the jury that the crime of murder did not demand "a long form of deliberation" and that Hackman's letter to Frederick Booth showed "a coolness and deliberation which no ways accorded with the ideas of insanity".

James Hackman travelled there in a mourning coach, accompanied by the sheriff's officer and two fellow clergymen, the Rev Moses Porter, a curate friend from Clapham, and the Rev John Villette, the chaplain of Newgate Prison.

James Hackman's body was later publicly dissected at Surgeons' Hall, London.

James Hackman's case became famous, and The Newgate Calendar later noted that:.

James Hackman is represented as a man of sensibility suffering from an extreme case of unrequited love who descends into suicidal and homicidal despair, even to the point that the reader is invited to identify with Hackman rather than with his victim.

Johnson believed that the two pistols James Hackman took with him to Covent Garden meant that he intended there to be two deaths.