Jack Straw

male
Jack Straw (probably the same person as John Rackstraw) was one of the three leaders (together with John Ball and Wat Tyler) of the Peasants'...

John Taylor

male, deceased (1766)
John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury. His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son,...

Thomas Smith

male, deceased (1577)
Sir Thomas Smith (December 23, 1513-August 12, 1577), was an English scholar and diplomat. He was born at Saffron Walden in Essex. He became a...
Geoffrey de Mandeville

Geoffrey de Mandeville

male, deceased (1100)
Geoffrey de Mandeville (d. c. 1100) Constable of the Tower of London. Important Domesday tenant-in-chief, was one of the great magnates of the...
Matthew Hopkins

Matthew Hopkins

male, deceased (1647)
Matthew Hopkins, d. 1647, was an English witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the...
Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles

female, 67 years old
Sarah Miles (b. 31 December 1941, Ingatestone, Essex, England) is an English theatre and film actress. She first attended Roedean but at the age of...
Neil Innes

Neil Innes

male, 64 years old
Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944, in Danbury, Essex) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo...
John Haynes

John Haynes

male, deceased (1654)
John Haynes (May 1, 1594 - January 1653 or 1654) was a colonial magistrate, one time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an eight-time...
Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

female, 79 years old
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is an English...
Martina Cole

Martina Cole

female
Martina Cole (born in 1958, Essex, England) is an English author, and as of 2006 has released thirteen novels about London's crime underworld. Two...