Person    | Male  Died 9/8/1537

Richard Beere

Categories: Execution, Religion

Richard Beere

Monk at London Charterhouse. Nephew of the Richard Beere who was Abbot of Glastonbury. Became a Carthusian in February 1523. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though there may have been a change of plan which meant he was fed for a while.

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Richard Beere

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Carthusian martyrs

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Sir Robert Hales

Sir Robert Hales

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Private Farquar Shaw

Private Farquar Shaw

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John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

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Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Closely related to the royal family but Henry VIII took against Henry and his father, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.  They were imprisoned and Henry was beheaded at Tower Hill.  His father sur...

Person, Execution, Poetry

1 memorial
Stratford Martyrs

Stratford Martyrs

The church website has done a very thorough job on the history not just of the memorial but the church and the area so we quote them here on the background to the martyrs: "In 1553 Queen Mary Tudor...

Group, Execution, Religion

1 memorial

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Michael Clark

Michael Clark

Sculptor. Born Cheltenham, eldest son of  sculptor Philip Lindsey-Clark. President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1971-76. More information at Mapping Sculpture.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Leon Blanding

Leon Blanding

Lieutenant Colonel Leon McFaddin Blanding was born on 30 October 1918 in Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina, USA, the youngest of the seven children of Donald McQueen Blanding (1868-1934) and Ge...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
P. W. Lindfield
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
George Ansell
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
T. E. Henderson
War dead, WW1
1 memorial