Harry Huxley - for a jealousy murder. 1952 was Shrewsbury’s busiest year for hangings since 1836. 43 year old Harrold Huxley would be the first of two men to hang at Shrewsbury during 1952, the only year since 1836 where there was more than one execution. Huxley had been convicted of the murder of his mistress, 32 year old Ada Royce in the village of Holt, near Wrexham in Denbighshire on Saturday the 29th of December 1951. It was a somewhat peculiar relationship that had been going on since 1945. Ada was married to Charles Royce and lived with him. She had three children, the youngest, Anthony being by Huxley, for whom he paid Ada maintenance. Before Christmas 1951 Ada wanted to end the affair and told Huxley so. On Christmas Day he borrowed a shotgun and two cartridges from a friend on the pretext of shooting a pheasant. On the fateful Saturday, Ada went out to the Gredington Arms pub for a drink with her sister-in-law, Ellen Royce. ...