Person    | Male  Died 8/6/1537

John Davy

Categories: Execution, Religion

John Davy

Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Davy

Commemorated ati

Carthusian martyrs

The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...

Read More

Other Subjects

King Charles I

King Charles I

Born Fife. Until the age of 11 he was only the 'spare' but then his 18-year old brother Henry died (probably of typhoid) and Charles became the heir, ascending the throne in 1625 on the death of hi...

Person, Execution, Royalty, Seriously Famous, Scotland

12 memorials
Corporal Malcolm MacPhearson

Corporal Malcolm MacPhearson

See Farquar Shaw for the story of the Black Watch mutiny.

Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Scotland

1 memorial
Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More

Born Milk Street. In conflict with Henry VIII over religion he was imprisoned in the tower, found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Final words: "The King's good servant, but God's Firs...

Person, Execution, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous

14 memorials
Ensign Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre

Ensign Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre

From our Picture Source we learn that Madeleine Léonie Zoé Damerment was born on 11 November 1917 at Tortefontaine, Pas-de-Calais, France, the second of the three daughters of Charles Eugène Cyrill...

Person, Espionage, Execution, France, Germany

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Joan Warne

Joan Warne

Burnt at the stake in Smithfield for her Protestant beliefs. Daughter of Elizabeth.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial