Person    | Male  Born 13/4/1593  Died 12/5/1641

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

Born Chancery Lane. An unpopular Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Supported Charles I against Parliament and so the Long Parliament impeached him and he was beheaded on Tower Hill.

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Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

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Tower Hill Martyrs - list

{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the fir...

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Westminster Hall - Wentworth

Initially we thought that the plaque was installed by the first person to hol...

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Hugh Laverock

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1 memorial
Thomas Bowyer

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1 memorial
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1 memorial
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Jacobite.  Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden.  Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.

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Sapper Frederick Leslie Hall

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1 memorial
Peter Sellers

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5 memorials
St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs

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SW1, King Street, 23-24

The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of Gilbert Miller, George Alexander, Oscar Wilde and the Olivier...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
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