Some Notable Executions At Tyburn (in Chronological Order)
| Name | Date | Cause |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March |
29 November 1330 | Accused of assuming royal power; hanged without trial. |
| Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton | 8 July 1486 | Accused of siding with Richard III; hanged without trial on orders of Henry VII. |
| Michael An Gof & Thomas Flamank | 27 June 1497 | Leaders of the 1st Cornish Rebellion of 1497. |
| Perkin Warbeck | 23 November 1499 | Treason; pretender to the throne of Henry VII of England by passing himself off as Richard IV, the younger of the two Princes in the Tower. Leader of the 2nd Cornish Rebellion of 1497. |
| Elizabeth Barton |
20 April 1534 | Treason; a nun who unwisely prophesied that King Henry VIII would die within six months if he married Anne Boleyn. |
| John Houghton | 4 May 1535 | Prior of the Charterhouse who refused to swear the oath condoning King Henry VIII's divorce of Catherine of Aragon. |
| Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare | 3 February 1537 | Rebel, renounced his allegiance to Henry VIII. At length, on the 3rd of February, 1537, the Earl, after imprisonment of sixteen months, and five of his uncles, of eleven months, were executed as traitors at Tyburn, being drawn, hung and quartered. The Irish Government, not satisfied with the arrest of the Earl alone wrote to Cromwell and was determined that the five uncles (James, Oliver, Richard, John and Walter) should be arrested also. ref. The Earls of Kildare and their Ancestors. By the Marquis of Kildare. Third addition 1858.
The sole male representative to the Kildare Geraldines was then smuggled to safety by his tutor at the age of twelve. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525–1585), also known as the "Wizard Earl". |
| Sir Francis Bigod | 2 June 1537 | Leader of Bigod's Rebellion. Between June and August 1537, the rebellion's ringleaders and many participants were executed at Tyburn, Tower Hill and many other locations. They included Sir John Bigod, Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Henry Percy, Sir John Bulmer,Sir Stephan Hamilton, Sir Nicholas Tempast, Sir William Lumley, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Robert Constable, the abbots of Barlings, Sawley, Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys, and the prior of Bridlington. In all, 216 were put to death in various places; lords and knights, half a dozen abbots, 38 monks, and 16 parish priests. |
| Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre | 29 June 1541 | Lord Dacre was convicted of murder after being involved in the death of a gamekeeper whilst taking part in a poaching expedition on the lands of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton. |
| Francis Dereham and Sir Thomas Culpeper | 10 December 1541 | Courtiers of King Henry VIII who were sexually involved with his fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard. Culpeper and Dereham were both sentenced to be 'hanged, drawn and quartered' but Culpeper's sentence was commuted to beheading at Tyburn on account of his previously good relationship with Henry. (Beheading, reserved for nobility, was normally carried out at Tower Hill. Dereham suffered the full sentence. |
| William Leech of Fulletby | 8 May 1543 | A ringleader of the rebellion called the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, Leech escaped to Scotland. He murdered the Somerset Herald, Thomas Trahern, at Dunbar on 25 November 1542, causing an international incident, and was delivered for hanging in London. |
| Humphrey Arundell | 27 January 1550 | Leader of the Cornish Rebellion against the English in 1549 - sometimes known as the Prayer Book Rebellion |
| Edmund Campion | 1 December 1581 | Roman Catholic priests. |
| John Adams | 8 October 1586 | |
| Robert Dibdale | ||
| John Lowe | ||
| Robert Southwell | 21 February 1595 | |
| Philip Powel | 30 June 1646 | |
| Peter Wright | 19 May 1651 | |
| John Southworth | 28 June 1654 | |
| Oliver Cromwell | 30 January 1661 | posthumous execution following exhumation of his body from Westminster Abbey. |
| Robert Hubert | 28 September 1666 | Falsely confessed to starting the Great Fire of London. |
| Claude Duval | 21 January 1670 | Highwayman. |
| Saint Oliver Plunkett | 1 July 1681 | Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland and martyr. |
| Jane Voss | 19 December 1684 | Robbing on the highway, high treason, murder, and felony |
| William Chaloner | 23 March 1699 | Notorious coiner and counterfeiter, convicted of high treason partly on evidence gathered by Isaac Newton |
| Jack Hall | 1707 | A chimney-sweep, hanged for committing a burglary. There is a folk-song about him, which bears his name (and another song with the variant name of Sam Hall). |
| Jack Sheppard |
16 November 1724 | Notorious thief and multiple escapee. |
| Jonathan Wild | 24 May 1725 | Organized crime lord. |
| James MacLaine |
3 October 1750 | Highwayman. |
| Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers | 5 May 1760 | The last peer to be hanged for murder. |
| Elizabeth Brownrigg | 13 September 1767 | Murdered Mary Clifford, a domestic servant. |
| John Rann |
30 November 1774 | Highwayman |
| Rev. James Hackman | 19 April 1779 | Hanged for the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. |
| John Austin | 3 November 1783 | A highwayman, the last person to be executed at Tyburn. |
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