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 the Protestant William and Mary ascended the throne Lord William's father was created 1st Duke of Bedford in recognition of the sacrifice of his son.
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Lord William Russell
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Lord William Russell's beheading
Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public behead...
Other Subjects
Major-General Thomas Harrison
Executed for regicide. In the civil war he fought on the side of Parliament against King Charles I. Close to Cromwell, he was elected to the Long Parliament, sat as a judge in the King's trial and...
1 memorial
Earl of Kilmarnock
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
1 memorial
John Derifall
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel Selden Raymond Edner, DFC
Selden Raymond Edner was born on 26 January 1919 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA, the second of the three sons of Eric Olaus Edner (1890-1948) and Anna Josephina Edner née Halvor...
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Ensign Denise Madeleine Bloch, Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre
Denise Madeleine Bloch was born on 21 January 1916 in Paris, France to a Jewish family. Her father was Jacques Henri Bloch and her mother was Suzanne Levi-Strauss. She had three brothers. Her Wiki...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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FCO - D unknown
SW1, Horse Guards Road, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Foreign Office was completed in 1873 to the 1861 designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the St James’s...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
St Marylebone fallen
The men and women of Saint Marylebone who served and died in both World Wars.
1 memorial
Orange Street Chapel
Also known as the Leicester Fields chapel. Founded by Huguenot refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Occupied: - 1693-1776 by the Huguenots, - 1776-1...
3 memorials
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