Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
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Thomas Reeding
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Carthusian martyrs
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E. Gordon Brettell
Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell DFC was born on 19 March 1915, the eldest of the three children of Vivian Brettell (1882-1949) and Eileen Isabella Brettell née Carroll (1887-1979). His bir...
War dead, WW2
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Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Born Chancery Lane. An unpopular Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Supported Charles I against Parliament and so the Long Parliament impeached him and he was beheaded on Tower Hill.
2 memorials
Hugh Laverock
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs. Lame. When in the flames he said to Apprice who was sharing the stake: "Hold on, John, it won't be for long: remember t...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Born near Maidstone, son of the poet of the same name. Opposed the marriage of Queen Mary to Phillip of Spain, he marched on London in 1554 with 4,000 men of Kent but, failing, on 6 February, to g...
1 memorial
Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
Statesman. Born Debden. As a Protestant dissenter he failed to secure the advancements at the King's court for which he had hoped and so set off to the newly established Massachusetts where he was ...
2 memorials
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