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Roderick Maclean

Last of Victoria's would-be assassins, tried for treason.

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Also known as Maclean

First appearance: ix old age

Roderick Maclean shows up with force in Chapter II. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The youth who fired a loaded pistol at the Queen in 1882, leading to a change in the insanity verdict law.
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