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 scaffold and gallows of timber" on Tower Hill, which says that some, at least, were hung.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
125 deaths on Tower Hill
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Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
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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
Duke of Monmouth
Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of King Charles II and Lucy Walter. He came to England in 1662 where he was created Duke of Monmouth. 1682 he had Monmouth Hou...
2 memorials
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
Born Wales. His father was executed by Richard III. Buckingham was part of the court of Henry VII and Henry VIII but his Plantagenet heritage made Henry suspicious of him and so following a trial...
1 memorial
Elizabeth Warne
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs. Gentlewoman. Widow of John Warne, mother of Joan and a son. Taken at a prayer meeting.
1 memorial
Lyon Cawch
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
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George Thomas Dorrell, VC, MBE
Soldier. Born George Thomas Dorrell in Paddington. Wikipedia informs that he joined the army at the age of fifteen and first served in the Second Boer War. On 1st September 1914, at Néry, France, d...
War served, WW1
3 memorials
Bishop Piers Calverley Claughton
Archdeacon of London and Assistant Bishop of London.
2 memorials
Richard Beaty
Lieutenant Richard Norton Beaty was born on 30 January 1920 in New York City, New York, USA, the third of the five children of Julian Bonar Beaty (1880-1978) and Constance Saltonstall Dawbarn Beaty...
War served, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private William Harrison
HMS Terrible, Royal Marine Light Infantry, South Africa.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
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