Struensee, Danish statesman, bred to medicine; became minister of Charles VII., took advantage of his imbecility and directed the affairs of government, roused the jealousy of the nobles, and he was arrested, tried on false charges, and was beheaded (1737‒1776).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Struck Jury * Strutt, Joseph