Monk at London Charterhouse. 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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Thomas Johnson
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Carthusian martyrs
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John Warne
Burnt at the stake in Smithfield for his Protestant beliefs. Upholsterer, husband of Elizabeth.
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Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel
Had been one of the group who arranged for the execution of Simon Burley. King Richard never forgave that, and when Fitzalan joined Gloucester to oppose the King's peace with France the King took ...
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Thomas Cromwell
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 hi...
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Lord Balmerino
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
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War dead, WW1
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War dead, WW1
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Dr Edmond Halley
Astronomer. born Haggerston, London. Correctly predicted the return of a comet in 1758 but died before the date. Invented the diving bell. Died Greenwich.
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Maria Hawes Ware
Daughter of Sir John Gurney. Her husband, Robert Ware was a significant slave owner in British Guiana. When he died in 1824 he left 148 slaves. After a legal battle she inherited all his wealth in...
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