Born Herefordshire. Related via the Boleyn family to Queen Elizabeth I. Married a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Became a favourite of the Queen. However he performed badly as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and on his return he was tried and lost his place at court and his income. Desperate, he fortified his town mansion, Essex House and in February 1661 he led a mini rebellion. This failed and Essex was beheaded on Tower Green. His was the last head to roll at that venue. Father of the 3rd Earl.
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
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Tower of London execution site
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John Routh
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Lady Jane Grey
Married to Lord Guilford Dudley. Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen. Mary...
4 memorials
Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
Lollard heretic. Vicar of Harmondsworth Middlesex and of St Nicholas Deptford.  He followed the Lollard doctrine which the authorities opposed and so he was burnt at the stake on Tower Hill for her...
1 memorial
Walter Peerson
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
1 memorial
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lutheran pastor and theologian. 1933 - 35 he was a pastor at two German speaking London churches: German Evangelical Church - Sydenham and the German Reformed Church of St Paul's - Whitechapel. Bo...
4 memorials
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