Henry Fauntleroy, an English forger, born in London about 1784, executed there, Nov. 30, 1824. He early joined the London bank- ing house of Marsh, Stracey, and co., and about 1814 began a system of forgeries involving about £400,000,though the bank of England prosecuted him only for £170,000. Among his papers was a most business-like statement, drawn up by his own hand as a private mem- orandum, containing a list of transactions to the amount of £120,000, with the names of the persons whom he had defrauded by selling the stocks they had deposited with him, through forged powers of attorney; and the conclu-sive plainness of this statement led to his con- ! viction. The interval of ten years between the beginning and the detection of his crime has been ascribed to his presumed integrity, i and to the fact of his forgeries having been committed upon funded property and not upon bills of exchange, including an amount of £200,000 that belonged to his own wards, which he drew by means of forged documents. Besides, he had no accomplices, and all the transactions were confined to England, and chiefly to London. Fauntleroy was the last forger hanged in England, capital punishment for forgery having been finally abolished in 1832.