Henry Adlington
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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Operation Anthropoid
The code name for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, Reinhard Heydrich. This was the only only targeted killing of a top-ranking Nazi. The operation was carried out...
Event, Execution, Czechoslovakia
1 memorial
John Apprice
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs. Blind. Shared a stake with Laverock who chatted with him during their ordeal.
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Lord Balmerino
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Scotland
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Richard Beere
Monk at London Charterhouse. Nephew of the Richard Beere who was Abbot of Glastonbury. Became a Carthusian in February 1523. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though ther...
1 memorial
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Jon Pertwee
Born: 7/7/1919, 103 years ago
Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA
3 memorials
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