[SCOTTISH MARTYRS] &
SKIRVING (William), introduction.
The Trial of William Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th January, 1794; for Sedition...
[SCOTTISH MARTYRS] &
SKIRVING (William), introduction.
The Trial of William Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th January, 1794; for Sedition...
Along with Thomas Fysshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Alexander Scott and Maurice Margarot, William Skirving formed the group known as the Scottish Martyrs, who were tried and sentence to transportation to Port Jackson in the last years of the eighteenth century. The men petitioned for parliamentary reform at a time when the French Revolution had heightened tensions in the United Kingdom. Skirving was arrested three times before being convicted for sedition, and transported on the Surprise, which arrived at Port Jackson on 25 October 1794. Skirving died of dysentery two years later.
Ferguson, 197.
