Person    | Male  Born 1640  Died 27/10/1666

Robert Hubert

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: France

A watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. There were many obvious flaws and impossibilities in Hubert's confession. He had not even been in the country at the time. His confession is often attributed to mental simplicity, an inability to understand what it was he was doing; or it may have been induced through torture, since a scapegoat for the fire was needed and a Frenchman satisfied many political needs. He was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey and hung at Tyburn.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert Hubert

Commemorated ati

Fire of London plaque - Museum of London

This is a large plaque, perhaps 2 or 3 feet wide. We tracked this plaque dow...

Read More

Other Subjects

Monika Maria Suchocka

Monika Maria Suchocka

Monika Maria Suchocka was born on 25 April 1982 in Poland and grew up in Dabrowka Malborska a village in Poland. She came to the UK in 2005 and was living in the Archway area of London. She was a f...

Person, Tragedy, Poland

3 memorials
Surrey Docks fire

Surrey Docks fire

The docks were set on fire in the first raid of the Blitz. Our picture source gives: "... a firestorm in the docks that blazed from end to end for a whole week. ... A third of the warehouses and tr...

Event, Tragedy

1 memorial
Ian Clive Thompson

Ian Clive Thompson

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Clive Thompson was born on 5 July 1958 in Cyprus and was known to everyone as Ian. In 1987 he married Lucy...

Person, Tragedy, Cyprus, USA

1 memorial
Vanessa Ann Walder

Vanessa Ann Walder

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Hyde Park bomb

Hyde Park bomb

A large nail bomb hidden in a car parked on South Carriage Drive exploded as the Queen's Life Guard passed.  It was set by the IRA and probably controlled remotely.  Four members of The Blues and R...

Event, Terrorism, Tragedy

2 memorials