Born Somerset. Speaker of the House of Commons 1580-3, Attorney General, 1581-92, and Lord Chief Justice of England 1592 - 1607. Presided at the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 and of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in 1605.
c. 1594 occupied Friary House, N20.
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John Popham
Friary House Friary Park opened to the public on Saturday 7th May 1910 after ...
Peter James Henry Benenson was born as Peter James Henry Solomon on 31 July 1921 in London, the son of Brigadier General Harold Josiah Solomon (1886-1930) and Flora Solomon MBE née Benenson (1895-1...
From at least 1580 prison facilities were provided by the White Lion Inn. Â For many years there were plans to demolish and rebuild and this finally happened when the Marshalsea moved onto this site...
Clive Fleetwood Pritchard was born in 1864 in Canonbury, the eldest of the eight children of Andrew Goring Pritchard (1834-1928) and Marianne Pritchard née Titford (1839-1920). His birth was regist...
Conservative MP for Hammersmith / Hammersmith South, 1900-29. William James Bull was the son of Henry Bull, a solicitor. He sat on the committees for the repairs to the Palace of Westminster, and f...
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