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 elected Governor. Returning to England he joined in the revolution against Charles I but opposed the execution of the King and so fell out with Cromwell as well. On the restoration of the monarchy he was charged with treason, arrested at his Hampstead home, and beheaded at Tower Hill.
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Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
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Harry Vane
Sir Harry Vane, statesman, lived here. Born 1612. Beheaded 1662. {Almost hid...
Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
Other Subjects
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Born Herefordshire. Related via the Boleyn family to Queen Elizabeth I. Married a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Became a favourite of the Queen. However he performed badly as Lord Lieuten...
2 memorials
Walter Peerson
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
1 memorial
125 deaths on Tower Hill
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
1 memorial
James Walworth
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
1 memorial
Major-General Thomas Harrison
Executed for regicide. In the civil war he fought on the side of Parliament against King Charles I. Close to Cromwell, he was elected to the Long Parliament, sat as a judge in the King's trial and...
1 memorial
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Lance Corporal Albert George Booth
Albert George Booth was born on 6 September 1898 in Devonport, Devon, a son of Thomas and Agnes Elizabeth Booth. His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1898 in the Devonport registration di...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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