Antoine de Guiscard

Antoine de Guiscard (1658 – 17 March 1711), also known as the Marquis de Guiscard or the Abbé de la Bourlie, was a French refugee who attempted to assassinate Robert Harley, a British statesman, on 8 March 1711 by stabbing him with a penknife during a Privy Council meeting at Whitehall.

Harley, though stabbed and bruised, recovered. Guiscard was fatally wounded and died just over a week a later in Newgate Prison.

References

• Jones, Peter (1982) "Antoine de Guiscard, 'Abbé de la Bourlie', 'Marquis de Guiscard'" British Library Journal, 1982 articles, pp. 94–113