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...
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Colonel Algernon Sidney
Opponent of King Charles II. Born Baynard's Castle. Exiled in Rome. Returned in 1677 and was implicated in the Rye House Plot. Beheaded on Tower Hill.
Person, Armed Forces, Execution, Politics & Administration, Italy
1 memorial
Richard Beere
Monk at London Charterhouse. Nephew of the Richard Beere who was Abbot of Glastonbury. Became a Carthusian in February 1523. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though ther...
1 memorial
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Imprisoned by Elizabeth I for plotting to take Mary Queen of Scots as his fourth wife. His pro-Catholic activities led to his beheading on Tower Hill, just like his Dad, Henry Howard. Father of Ad...
1 memorial
Duke of Monmouth
Born James Scott (or Crofts or Fitzroy) at Rotterdam. Illegitimate son of King Charles II and Lucy Walter. He came to England in 1662 where he was created Duke of Monmouth. 1682 he had Monmouth Hou...
2 memorials
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London Borough of Bromley
Formerly part of Kent, it has been part of Greater London since 1963.
22 memorials
Samuel Pepys
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
16 memorials
Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 12
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
1 subject commemorated
Peter Hall
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE was a theatre and film director who was born on 22 November 1930 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and was its first artis...
1 memorial
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