Anthony Cooke

Anthony Cooke

male, deceased (1576)
roman catholic church, tower of london, anne, romford, tower, tudor
Sir Anthony Cooke (1504 - 11 June 1576) was an eminent English scholar who became tutor to Edward VI. He is particularly remembered because of his...

James Croft

male, deceased (1590)
Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament, Parliament of England, tudor, Haddington, herefordshire, tower…tower of london
Sir James Croft PC (d. September 4, 1590), Lord Deputy of Ireland, belonged to an old family of Herefordshire, which county he represented in the...

William Strode

male, deceased (1645)
tower of london, Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament, tower, parliamentarian, English, Inner Temple
William Strode (1598-1645), English parliamentarian, second son of Sir William Strode, of Newnham, Devon (a member of an ancient family long...
William Lambarde

William Lambarde

male, deceased (1601)
member of parliament, Aldborough, Laurence Nowell, justice of the peace, tower of london, Old English…tower
William Lambarde (October 18, 1536 - August 19, 1601) was an antiquarian and writer on legal subjects. Lambarde was born in London. His father was...
Alexander Briant

Alexander Briant

male, deceased (1581)
Tudor clergy, Robert Parsons, Former student of Hart Hall, Oxford, Hertford College, convert to Roman Catholicism, From Somerset…tower, tower of london
Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, born in Somerset about 1556; executed at Tyburn, 2 December 1581. He entered Hart Hall,...
Richard Eliot

Richard Eliot

male, deceased (1632)
From Cornwall, Alumni of the University of Oxford, tower of london, University of Oxford, tower, John Eliot
Richard Eliot (c.1614 - unknown date in 1660s) was the wayward second son of Sir John Eliot (April 11 1592 - November 27 1632) and Rhadigund Geddy...
Charles Philip Yorke

Charles Philip Yorke

male, deceased (1834)
Roman Catholic, member of parliament, home office, British, Lord of the Admiralty, roman catholic church…tower of london, tower
Charles Philip Yorke (12 March 1764 - 13 March 1834), was a British politician. Yorke was the second son of Charles Yorke and grandson of Philip...

William Parker 4th Baron Monteagle

male, deceased (1622)
Baron in the Peerage of England, Hoxton, tower, elizabeth, tudor, gunpowder plot…tower of london
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle and 11th Baron Morley (1575 - July 1, 1622), was the eldest son of Edward Parker, 10th Baron Morley (d. 1618),...
William Carstares

William Carstares

male, deceased (1715)
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Prince of Orange, Covenanter, william, tower of london…tower
William Carstares (also Carstaires, Scottish clergyman, was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow. He was the son of the Rev. John Carstares, a member of...
Phoebe Hessel

Phoebe Hessel

female, deceased (1821)
From Stepney, gibraltar, guinea, plymouth, Highwayman, disguising herself as a man…tower
Phoebe Hessel was best known for disguising herself as a man to serve in the British Army, probably to be with her lover, Samuel Golding. Hessel...