Charles Thomas Wooldridge
- Charles Thomas Wooldridge
Charles Thomas Wooldridge (CIR 1866 - July 7 1896) was a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, a regiment of the British Army. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen [GRO Register of Deaths: JUN qtr 1896 Wooldridge, Laura Ellen aged 23 Windsor 2c 241] , earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was executed at Reading Gaol, aged 30. ][cite web | url = http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars/vol_iii_07/essays.html | title = And I, May I Say Nothing? | publisher = the OSScholars | accessdate = May 22 | accessyear = 2006 ] ][GRO Register of Deaths: SEP qtr 1896 Wooldridge, Charles Thomas aged 30 Reading 2c 210] ]Trooper Wooldridge's death was immortalised in Oscar Wilde's moving poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". Wilde was a fellow inmate at Reading Gaol at the time, and had seen Wooldridge on several occasions. The ballad is dedicated to Wooldridge by his initials "CTW".["The Ballad of Reading Gaol". Oscar Wilde (1897).] ]References
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