Unusually well-educated. Titles: Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Constable, Deputy Governor of Ireland.... and Butcher of England - for his relish in executing many Lancastrians. Thus when the Lancastrian Henry VI returned Worcester lost his own head on Tower Hill.
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John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
Army commander. Born Staffordshire. A commander in the 1st Cornish Rebellion...
His father, George Duke of Clarence, was executed for treason by being drowne...
Queen Mary I (reigned 1553-8) earned the nickname 'Bloody Mary' for the perse...
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterb...
