ARAM, EUGENE

(1704-59), Eng. schoolmaster and murderer; 6. Ramsgill (Yorks); was self-educated, but acquired considerable learning, and was a schoolmaster at Nether dale, Knaresborough, and Lynn (Norfolk); was the first scholar to draw attention to the affinity existing between the Celtic and other Indo-European languages. He was found guilty of the murder, thirteen ears earlier, of Daniel Clark, whose lay he hid in a cave at Knaresborough. He eventually confe ed his guilt, a erting that Clark had been intimate with his wife, and was hanged at York, after having attempted to commit suicide; subject of novel by Bulwer Lytton, and poem by Thomas Hood.