The 2006 World Championship was held at Lincoln Castle, and was dedicated to regular competitor Charles Vermes of Derbyshire, who had died shortly before.
William Frederick Horry is buried in the Lucy Tower, along with many other criminals' graves.
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He used the long drop, designed to break the victim's neck rather than to strangle him, to execute Fred Horry in 1872.
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In 1169 the Barony of Brattleby was inherited by Nicola de la Haye, who became Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and, in 1216 after the death of her husband Gerard de Camville, castellan of Lincoln Castle, where she was involved in the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the defence against various sieges during the First Barons' War.
She inherited the office of castellan of Lincoln castle and her husbands generally carried out the duties of that office by her right.