Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. In the latter role he was associated with the taxes against which the Peasants Revolted and so, along with Robert Hales, he was dragged from his hiding place at the Tower of London and beheaded on Tower Hill. After being taken down from its display stand at London (or Tower depending on source) Bridge his head has been kept at the church of St Gregory at Sudbury in Suffolk. In 2011 a CT scan of the mummified skull enabled a facial reconstruction - see picture.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
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Earl of Kilmarnock
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
1 memorial
Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon
Grandson of King Edward IV. 1st Marquess of Exeter. Accused of Catholic loyalties when this was not in favour. Executed by decapitation with a sword on Tower Hill. We have taken his dates from t...
1 memorial
Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt
Master mariner. Born Southampton. From Hellfire Corner : Captain of the Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Brussels, he in utter defiance of the Germans continued to work the Rotterdam-Briti...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Elizabeth Pepper
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
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June Aylward
W11, Portobello Road, 115
The London Compendium gives 1950 as the year in which Aylward opened her shop, while Wikipedia reckons "antiques dealers arrived in the l...
1 subject commemorated
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