Mary Blandy was an eighteenth century British murderer. In 1751, she poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic. She claimed that she thought the arsenic was a love potion that would make her father approve of her relationship with William Henry Cranstoun, an army officer and son of a Scottish nobleman.
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1720
- Died
- April 6, 1752
