Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Bowyer
Commemorated ati
Stratford Martyrs
The event on 27 June 1556 was a big draw: "These 11 men and 2 women were brou...
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Sir William Stanley
Soldier who fought in the Wars of the Roses. Â Born Lancashire. Â Originally a Yorkist, he switched sides and in 1485 fought at Bosworth Field for Tudor Henry VII, for which he was appointed Lord Cha...
1 memorial
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Born Herefordshire. Â Related via the Boleyn family to Queen Elizabeth I. Â Married a daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Â Became a favourite of the Queen. Â However he performed badly as Lord Lieuten...
2 memorials
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Born near Maidstone, son of the poet of the same name. Â Opposed the marriage of Queen Mary to Phillip of Spain, he marched on London in 1554 with 4,000 men of Kent but, failing, on 6 February, to g...
1 memorial
John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
1 memorial
Rosa Luxemburg
Revolutionary socialist. Born Rozalia Luksenburg, she was a Polish and naturalised-German orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during WW1. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist ...
Person, Execution, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Germany, Poland, Russia
1 memorial
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