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 he was beheaded on Tower Hill.
Note: He was the 3rd Duke of the 1444 creation. The Dukeship (?) has been created 4 times - we know you don't want to know all this, but since we have other Buckinghams on LondonRemembers we had to investigate so you might as well know too.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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 ...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
According to reviews (Guardian and Camden New Journal) of Francesca Wade's 'Square Haunting' Dorothy L. Sayers lived, December 1920 - Dec...
Albert Chevalier, 1861 - 1923, music hall comedian, was born here. London County Council
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on this site, 1792 - 1832. City of Westminster University Colleg...
Indian patriot and philosopher. Born in Bhagur, District Nashik, Maharashtra.
In May 2017 a small exhibition at City University displayed a copy of a photograph showing “Unveiling of the plaque to commemorate George...
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