Thomas Reeding
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Writer and national hero of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial times. Born Laguna. Executed by firing squad in Manila. He was in London, working at the British Library, May 1888 to January...
Person, Execution, Jack the Ripper suspects, Literature, Nationalism, Philippines
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
Protestant martyr burned at Smithfield. The first of the 'Marian Martyrs'.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Son of the 5th Earl Bedford. MP for Tavistock. Convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the Catholic King Charles II and beheaded, eventually, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. When th...
Born Bath, of royal blood, she survived the Wars of the Roses and was trusted by Henry VIII enough to be a governess to Mary, his daughter by Catherine of Aragon. However when the king wanted a di...
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.