Person    | Male  Born 23/4/1408  Died 26/2/1462

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

Born in Essex.  Caught supporting the wrong side when Edward IV assumed the throne, he was arrested and convicted of high treason which led to the loss of his head at Tower Hill.

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John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

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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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Stratford Martyrs

Stratford Martyrs

The church website has done a very thorough job on the history not just of the memorial but the church and the area so we quote them here on the background to the martyrs: "In 1553 Queen Mary Tudor...

Group, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
Operation Anthropoid

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
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury

Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Religion

2 memorials
Sir Harry Vane (the younger)

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 ...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, USA

2 memorials
Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell

Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5. Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed hi...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

5 memorials

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M. G. Yonge

M. G. Yonge

Resident of Hendon who served and died in WW2.

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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
L\Cpl. Harry Sidney Cockcroft

L\Cpl. Harry Sidney Cockcroft

Military Foot Police

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Members of the Rifle Brigade lost in WW1

Members of the Rifle Brigade lost in WW1

11,575 officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and riflemen lost in WW1.

Group

1 memorial
1 - Mrs Toulson

1 - Mrs Toulson

N7, Caledonian Road, 426

These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...

2 subjects commemorated
William Charles Holland King

William Charles Holland King

W. C. H. King was a sculptor. He was born in Cheltenham in 1884 and died in 1973. He was apprenticed to a firm of architectural sculptors at the age of 16 where he engaged in training for wood carv...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials