Aram, Eugene

Aram, Eugene

▪ English scholar
born , c. September 1704, Ramsgill, Yorkshire, Eng.
died Aug. 6, 1759, York, Yorkshire

      noted English scholar and murderer, whose notoriety was romanticized in a ballad by Thomas Hood and in the novel Eugene Aram (1832), by Bulwer-Lytton.

      In 1745, when Aram was schoolmaster at Knaresborough, a man named Daniel Clark, his intimate friend, after obtaining a considerable quantity of goods from tradesmen, disappeared. Suspicions of being concerned in this swindling transaction fell upon Aram. His garden was searched, and some of the goods were found there. However, because there was insufficient evidence to convict him of any crime, he was discharged. For several years he traveled through parts of England, acting as usher in a number of schools, and settled finally at Lynn, in Norfolk. During his travels he had amassed considerable material for a projected comparative lexicon of the English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Celtic languages. He was undoubtedly an original philologist, who recognized what was then not yet admitted by scholars, that the Celtic language was related to the other languages of Europe and that Latin was not derived from Greek. But he was not destined to live in history as the pioneer of a new philology.

      In February 1758 a skeleton was dug up at Knaresborough, and some suspicion arose that it might be Clark's. Aram's wife had often hinted that her husband and a man named Houseman knew the secret of Clark's disappearance. Houseman was at once arrested and confronted with the bones that had been found. After denials, he confessed that he had been present at the murder of Clark by Aram and another man, Terry, of whom nothing further was heard. He also gave information as to the place where Clark's body had been buried. A skeleton was dug up, and Aram was immediately arrested and sent to York for trial. He was found guilty and condemned to be executed. While in his cell he confessed his guilt and asserted that he had discovered an intimacy between Clark and his own wife.

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