Edith Thompson
Edith Jessie Thompson and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters were a British couple executed for the murder of Thompsons husband Percy. Their case became a cause clbre.
Edith Thompson was born Edith Jessie Graydon onDecember 1893, at 97 Norfolk Road in Dalston, London, the first of the five children of William Eustace Graydon , a clerk with the Imperial Tobacco Company, and his wife, Ethel Jessie Liles , the daughter of a police constable. During her childhood, she was a happy, talented girl who excelled at dancing and acting, and was academically bright, with natural ability in arithmetic. After leaving school in 1909, she joined a firm of clothing manufacturers near Aldgate Station in London. Then, in 1911, she was employed at Carlton amp Prior, wholesale milliners, in the Barbican and, later, in Aldersgate. Edith quickly established a reputation as a stylish and intelligent woman and was promoted by the company several times, until she became their chief buyer and made regular trips to Paris on behalf of the company.
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