Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry married Katherine Howard, wife number 5.
Oliver Cromwell is descended from one of Thomas's sisters, whose husband changed his name to Cromwell.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Cromwell
Commemorated ati
Drapers' Hall
Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...
Imperial Hotel - statue 01 - Cromwell
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
Imperial Hotel - statue 12 - Cromwell
The fur collar, the cap . . . Surely this statue is the man in the Cromwell p...
Thomas Cromwell - SW15
The plaque fails to explain why it is on this particular spot. Cromwell's fa...
Tower Hill Martyrs - list
{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...
Other Subjects
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Born Yorkshire. Opposed Henry VIII's self-appointment as head of the Church of England. Result: decapitation on Tower Hill.
2 memorials
Joan Warne
Burnt at the stake in Smithfield for her Protestant beliefs. Daughter of Elizabeth.
1 memorial
Sir William Stanley
Soldier who fought in the Wars of the Roses. Born Lancashire. Originally a Yorkist, he switched sides and in 1485 fought at Bosworth Field for Tudor Henry VII, for which he was appointed Lord Cha...
1 memorial
Sebastian Newdigate
Monk at London Charterhouse. Newdigate was a personal friend of Henry VIII. The king visited him twice in prison but Newdigate refused to change his views. Executed at Tyburn.
1 memorial
Earl of Kilmarnock
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
1 memorial
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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