Born near Maidstone, son of the poet of the same name. Opposed the marriage of Queen Mary to Phillip of Spain, he marched on London in 1554 with 4,000 men of Kent but, failing, on 6 February, to gain entry to the City at Ludgate, he turned towards Temple Bar but was forced to surrender. Beheaded on Tower Hill.
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Commemorated ati
Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
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Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH
Naval officer. Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...
Serjeant Archibald Robert Howard, MM
Archibald Robert Howard was born on 29 October 1886 in West Norwood, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of George Howard (1855-1932) and Frances Margaret Faulkner Howard ...
Corporal Ernest Fulford
Ernest Fulford was born on 5 July 1890 in Islington, London, the youngest of the three children of John Philip Fulford (1856-1938) and Isabelle Ann Fulford née Lee (1850-1895). His birth was regist...
A. Upham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Major John Russell Wardle
Major in the (Queen's Own Royal) Glasgow Yeomanry. Killed in action at Gallipoli and believed to be buried in Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Turkey, where there is a memorial to him. John Russell War...
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Michael Winner
SW1, Horse Guards Road, Cambridge Green
A memorial service for Michael Winner, attended by, amongst others, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Michael Caine and Sir Michael Parkinson, was hel...
2 - Mrs T. Burnitt
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...
Constance Spry
Floral artist. Born Constance Fletcher at 58 Warner Street, Derby. Educated in Ireland, she returned to England during WW1 as a welfare worker in the east end of London. Her work with flowers did n...
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