Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5.
Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed his name to Cromwell.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Cromwell
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Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Imperial Hotel - statue 01 - Cromwell
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
Imperial Hotel - statue 12 - Cromwell
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
Thomas Cromwell - SW15
The plaque fails to explain why it is on this particular spot. Cromwell's fa...
Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
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John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
1 memorial
James Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater
Jacobite. Either 'Radcliffe' or 'Radclyffe'. Illegitimate grandson of Charles II on his mother's side. A very wealthy Northumbrian nobleman, brought up in France. 1712 married Anna Webb. Captured ...
1 memorial
Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
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 fro...
1 memorial
125 deaths on Tower Hill
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
1 memorial
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
2 memorials
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Rev John Gordon
Rector of St. Antholins including the old parish of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook. Gordon had been vicar in Edwinston, Nottinghamshire. In 1827 he became rector at St. Antholins and that same...
1 memorial
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