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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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...
Westminster Hall - Wentworth
Initially we thought that the plaque was installed by the first person to hol...
Other Subjects
Thomas Green
Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Hugh Laverock
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs. Lame. When in the flames he said to Apprice who was sharing the stake: "Hold on, John, it won't be for long: remember t...
Thomas Bowyer
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Ralph Jackson
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Earl of Kilmarnock
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
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Streatham civilian war memorial
SW16, Streatham High Road, Garden of Rememberance, Streatham Common North
"Grief has no boundaries" is a quotation from a poem by Rohit Sapra. The information board defines the scope for this memorial: "people ...
Sapper Frederick Leslie Hall
Frederick Leslie Hall was born on 30 September 1909 in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, the youngest of the five children of Joseph Hall (1868-1920) and Caroline Bresson Hall née Goodwin (1870-1961)....
Peter Sellers
Goon and comic actor. Born Portsmouth to a couple of variety entertainers. The family moved to the N6 house when Sellers was 10. He was staying at the Dorchester Hotel when he suffered a heart atta...
St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs
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...
William, Prince of Wales
Royal prince. Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, first son (the heir) of Prince Charles and his first wife, Princess Diana. Married Catherine Middleton in 2011. Known as the Duke of Cambridge un...