Talk:William Chaloner

A fact from William Chaloner appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2009. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter and agent provocateur, who was convicted by Isaac Newton, sent to Newgate Prison and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2009/September.

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Latest comment: 11 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

This article misses out a lot of information such as Newton's conflict of interest (Chaloner had applied to work at the Mint and essentially take Newton's job), such as the fact that Newton would pardon a person from the gallows if they would accuse two others, and the fact that the evidence against Chaloner was contradictory and inconsistent. Some histories from near the time sided heavily with Newton. I don't know enough about it but it is not clear to me that Chaloner was guilty of forgery. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.208.147 (talk) 20:24, 16 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

In the article on Isaac Newton it is mentioned that Chaloner was drawn and quartered but is omitted in this article.--Jrm2007 (talk) 07:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

The book by Levenson does not indicate that Chaloner was drawn and quartered, only hanged.--Jrm2007 (talk) 11:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Citation 13 blank

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Source 13 leads to nothing, just some page describing an organization's resources. No clue where the actual source is meant to be. Hunter Hutchins (talk) 06:53, 15 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's the page of the cited journal, indexed to the volume that contains the article in question (under the heading Current Volume (Number 31, 2019). That's hardly "blank", but I get what you mean. I guess it's possible it used to include a link to the article itself. The page says that it is available on JSTOR; I don't have access from home, but I'll see if I can scare up a link next week. Magidin (talk) 16:21, 15 August 2026 (UTC)Reply