James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (died 1889)

James Maybrick

British merchant, murder victim, and Jack the Ripper suspect (1838–1889)

James Maybrick was a Liverpool cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poisoning" case was widely reported in the press on both sides of the Atlantic.