List of People Who Were Beheaded - Great Britain

Great Britain

See also the sections on England, Scotland and Wales for beheadings before the Union of 1707.

• William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (1716) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel
• James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1716) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel
• Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch (1746) – beheaded at Tower Hill as a Jacobite supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, he was taken prisoner at Culloden
• William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1746) – beheaded at Tower Hill as a Jacobite supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, he was taken prisoner at Culloden
• Charles Radclyffe, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater (1746) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel
• Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1747) – executed at Tower Hill as a prominent veteran Jacobite supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Though too old to participate in the 1745 Rising, he was chosen by the British Crown for execution in lieu of his youthful son, who had actually led Clan Fraser for the Jacobite cause
• Jeremiah Brandreth (1817) – hanged and beheaded in Derby for treason; last British decapitation by axe
• Hon. Henry William John, later 4th Earl of Strafford (1899) – decapitated by a train
• J. G. Parry-Thomas (1927) – racing driver at least partly decapitated by his car's drive chain
• Jolanta Bledaite (2008)– Lithuanian immigrant, tortured and killed in Scotland
• Gerald Mellin (2008) – see List of unusual deaths
• David Phyall (2008) – see List of unusual deaths