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Vratz, Christopher (d. 1682), army officer and murderer  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

See Königsmark [Coningsmark], Karl Johann, Count Königsmark in the Swedish nobility

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Wall, Joseph (1737–1802), army officer and murderer  

Jonathan Spain

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Wall, Joseph (1737–1802), army officer and murderer, was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Gereld or Garrett Wall, a well-to-do tenant farmer on the estate of Sir John Denny Vesey, second baronet, near Abbeyleix in Queen's county. Details of his early life are sparse. His family were Roman Catholic but he and his brothers converted to protestantism. Most accounts state that at the age of fifteen he attended ...

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Joseph Wall (1737–1802) by Thomas Rowlandson, 1802 by courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland