Aram, Eugene (1704-1759)

English murderer, the subject of works by the English novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton, the English poet Thomas Hood, and others.

He was a schoolmaster in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and achieved some distinction as a philologist. In 1745 he was tried and acquitted on a charge concerned with the disappearance of a local shoemaker. Several years later he was arrested in Lynn, Norfolk, following the discovery of a skeleton in a cave at Knaresborough. He was tried at York, confessed to the murder after his conviction, and was hanged.