Protestant martyr. Before his execution,he wrote to his wife Anne: “Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ be with you dear wife, now and for ever, amen, and prevent your ways through his Holy Spirit, that ye may in all your words and works please God"
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Robert Smith
This stone was erected in 1955 in memory of Robert Smith, John Denley & P...
Burnt at the stake in Ware (his home town) for his Protestant beliefs. Was associated with Harwood. Condemned by Bishop Bonner.
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Monk at London Charterhouse. Newdigate was a personal friend of Henry VIII. The king visited him twice in prison but Newdigate refused to change his views. Executed at Tyburn.
The code name for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, Reinhard Heydrich. This was the only only targeted killing of a top-ranking Nazi. The operation was carried out...
From The Modernists Journals Project we lean that this house was "designed by Halsey Ricardo for his daughter Anna ... and Maresco when t...
Supported the Parliamentary cause and sat in the House of Commons 1640-52. Buried Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver ...
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