Mrs Anne Turner (1576 - 1615), companion to Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset. Mrs Turner ran "houses of ill-repute" (brothels), and had connections in aristocratic, apothecary and business circles. She supplied the arsenic and mercury when Howard murdered Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613. Executed at Tiburne (Tyburn) 14 November 1615. Copperplate engraving from a very rare print in the collection of Irish writer Robert Stearne Tighe, published in London, 1790s.
Mrs Anne Turner (1576 - 1615), companion to Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset. Mrs Turner ran "houses of ill-repute" (brothels), and had connections in aristocratic, apothecary and business circles. She supplied the arsenic and mercury when Howard murdered Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613. Executed at Tiburne (Tyburn) 14 November 1615. Copperplate engraving from a very rare print in the collection of Irish writer Robert Stearne Tighe, published in London, 1790s.