Person    | Female  Born 1536  Died 12/2/1554

Lady Jane Grey

Married to Lord Guilford Dudley.  Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen.  Mary and her supporters were having none of this and within days Mary was proclaimed queen.  Dudley was beheaded at Tower Hill shortly followed by Jane on Tower Green.

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Lady Jane Grey

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Tower of London execution site

Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushio...

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Tower of London execution site - c.1910

This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes m...

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Tower scaffold - 1946

See Anne Boleyn's plaque for when/how this plaque was displayed.

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James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley

James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley

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Person, Armed Forces, Execution

1 memorial
Arpad Weisz

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Person, Execution, Sport / Games, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Poland

1 memorial
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester

John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester

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Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Patrick Packingham

Patrick Packingham

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Person, Execution, Religion

2 memorials
Rosa Luxemburg

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Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Germany, Poland, Russia

1 memorial

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Person, Children, Sport / Games

2 memorials
C. M. Bacon

C. M. Bacon

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Andrew O'Connor

Andrew O'Connor

Sculptor.  Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with the same name, of Irish descent.  In London c.1894-8, met and worked with John Singer Sargent.  Also worked in Paris c.1...

Person, Sculpture, Ireland, USA

1 memorial
Julian Gribble VC

Julian Gribble VC

SW1, Sloane Square

Believed to be the first war memorial erected on a public highway. At first sight just a simple stone cross on a plinth, but the whole ba...

War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Manor of Hyde

Manor of Hyde

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Place, Gardens / Agriculture

1 memorial