Fishmonger and Mayor 1374 to 1375 and 1380 to 1381. During the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 King Richard II met the rebels, led by Wat Tyler, at Smithfield to discuss their demands. A scuffle broke out involving, among others, Walworth and Tyler which eventually led to Walworth having Tyler summarily beheaded. Exploring London tells his story and Spartacus carries a detailed eye-witness account of the events of June that year.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir William Walworth
Commemorated ati
Holborn Viaduct - Walworth
The sword he sports represents the one which removed Tyler's head, the origin...
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John Kettle
Chairman of the Plaistow Library Committee in the Borough of West Ham in 1902. Apart from the information and image of John Kettle that is contained on the London Wiki website our research has fou...
1 memorial
T. F. Bryen
1906 Councillor and Chairman of the Public Libraries Committee and Chairman of the committee for the erection of Islington Library.
2 memorials
Paul Goodman
Secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Hospital.
1 memorial
Francis Knibbs
Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Francis Knibbs was born in 1875 in Bermondsey, Southwark, the only child of Francis Edward Knibbs and Amelia Knibbs, née Potts. His father was a ...
1 memorial
Henry White
Trustee of the Lambeth Hayles Estate development in 1894.
1 memorial
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Hugh Gaitskell House
N16, Stamford Hill
{The top plaque:} These flats erected for the Stoke Newington Borough Council were opened by Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont on the 9th Ma...
1 subject commemorated,
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