Son of the 5th Earl Bedford. MP for Tavistock. Convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the Catholic King Charles II and beheaded, eventually, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. When the Protestant William and Mary ascended the throne Lord William's father was created 1st Duke of Bedford in recognition of the sacrifice of his son.
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Lord William Russell
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Lord William Russell's beheading
Lincoln's Inn Fields was the site of the gruesome and prolonged public behead...
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Lieutenant Colonel Selden Raymond Edner, DFC
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Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Born Chancery Lane. An unpopular Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Supported Charles I against Parliament and so the Long Parliament impeached him and he was beheaded on Tower Hill.
Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick
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John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
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Ensign Denise Madeleine Bloch, Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre
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William Sidney
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Alfred Farmer
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