John Pass (engraver)

[1] He made plates for The History, Civil and Ecclesiastical, and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester (1798–1801) by John Milner.

[2] John Wilkes the London bookseller, who was from Winchester, knew him at the end of the 18th century, and took him on for illustrations of his Encyclopaedia Londoniensis.

[1] John Paas (name used legally) was murdered in Leicester by James Cook, in a criminal case that attracted wide attention.

He was aged 49, a partner in the firm Paas & Co. of High Holborn, London, engravers.

[3] Cook, a printer and bookbinder, was exhibited on a gibbet after being hanged, the last British criminal to be so treated.