McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world". (30 September 1902)
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Sunday 2nd of September 1973 (-) — Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien dies of a bleeding ulcer and chest infection.