
Charles Thomas Wooldridge
1864–1896
Charles Thomas Wooldridge (1864 – 7 July 1896) was a Trooper in the Royal Horse Guards who was executed in Reading Gaol for uxoricide and who, as 'C.T.W', was the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Incarceration history
- HM Prison ReadingDates unknown
Biography
Charles Thomas Wooldridge (1864 – 7 July 1896) was a Trooper in the Royal Horse Guards who was executed in Reading Gaol for uxoricide and who, as 'C.T.W', was the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.