Closely related to the royal family but Henry VIII took against Henry and his father, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. They were imprisoned and Henry was beheaded at Tower Hill. His father survived because the king died the day before the execution was due. But 27 years later his son Thomas Howard died the same way.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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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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125 deaths on Tower Hill
Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011). Â Most of the victims that we have researched are recorded as having been beheaded but A London Inheritance, quoting John Stow (c. 1598), refers to "a large scaffo...
1 memorial
Corporal Samuel MacPhearson
See Farquar Shaw for the story of the Black Watch mutiny.
1 memorial
Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcey of Templehurst
Known as Lord Darcy de Darcy or Darcy of Templehurst or Temple Hirst. Â Early success as a soldier, and then at court but his involvement in Aske's rebellion, known as the 'Pilgrimage of Grace', led...
1 memorial
Thomas Johnson
Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death though there may have been a change of plan which meant he was fed for a while.
1 memorial
Anne Boleyn
Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536.  Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horri...
6 memorials
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