Members of Parliament Who Were Executed, Died in Prison or Escaped Justice
| Title/Rank | Name | Born | Executed/Died | Crime accused of | MP's Seat | Offices Held, Honours/Political Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint The Right Honourable Sir | Sir Thomas More | 1478 | 1535 (Beheaded) | High treason | Middlesex | Speaker of the House of Commons (1523), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1525–1529), Lord Chancellor (1529–1532) and Master of Requests (1517) & PC |
| The Right Honourable Lord Russell | William Russell, Lord Russell | 1639 | 1683 (Beheaded) | High treason and the Rye House Plot | Bedfordshire | PC, forerunner of the Whig Party |
| The Right Honourable Earl of Strafford | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | 1593 | 1641 (Beheaded) | High treason | Yorkshire | Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire (1628 until death), Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1630 until death) and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1640 until death), KG, PC |
| The Right Honourable Earl of Ailesbury | Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury | 1656 | 1741 (Died in Brussels while in exile) | Accused of having conspired to plan the restoration of King James II | Wiltshire | Lord of the Bedchamber, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (1685–1689), Huntingdonshire (1685–1689) and Page of Honour, at the coronation of King James II |
| The Right Honourable Viscount Monson | William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson | 1672 (Stripped of all honours and titles and sentenced to life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I though did not actually sign | Reigate | ||
| The Right Honourable | James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby | 1607 | 1651 (Beheaded in Bolton) | High Treason for being a Royalist | Liverpool (1625) | |
| Lord Grey of Groby | Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby | 1623 | 1657 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Leicester | |
| Sir | Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland | 1532 | 1585 (died in the Tower-possible suicide) | High Treason | Northumberland (1571) | |
| Sir | Peter Wentworth | 1524 | 1597 (Died in the Tower) | For claiming Parliamentary privileges | Northampton (1586–1597) | |
| Sir | Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet | 1645 | 1697 (Beheaded) | High treason and for being a Jacobite | Northumberland | |
| Sir | Sir James Harrington, 3rd Baronet | 1607 | 1680 (Exiled and stripped of Baronetcy for life) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Middlesex | |
| Sir | Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet | 1602 | 1658 (Beheaded) | For being a Royalist | Knaresborough | |
| Sir | Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet the Elder | 1645 (Beheaded) | For betraying the Parliamentarians to the Royalists | Beverley | ||
| Sir | Sir John Hotham the Younger | 1610 | 1645 (Beheaded) | For betraying the Parliamentarians to the Royalists | Scarborough | |
| Sir | Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet | 1609 | 1664 (Beheaded) | For being a Royalist, also brother of Regicide John Carew | Cornwall | |
| Sir | Sir Michael Livesay, 1st Baronet | 1614 | Unknown (Fled to Netherlands before Justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Queenborough | High Sheriff of Kent (1643, 1655 & 1656) |
| Sir | Sir William Constable, 1st Baronet | 1590 | 1655 (however his body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey and reburied in a communal burial pit after the Restoration) | Regicide of Charles I | Scarborough | |
| Sir | Walter Raleigh | c.1554 | 1618 (Beheaded) | High treason (participation in Main Plot against King James I) | Dorset; Cornwall | Warden of the Stannaries (1585), Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1585), Vice-admiral of Devon and Cornwall, (1585) |
| Sir | Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet | 1599 | 1655 (Died before justice could be brought, though his son fought for the Royalists and was allowed to keep the Baronetcy) | Regicide of Charles I | Boroughbridge | JP |
| Sir | Sir Gergory Norton, 1st Baronet | 1603 | 1652 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Midhurst | |
| Sir | Sir Gilbert Pickering, 1st Baronet | 1611 | 1668 (Banned from holding offices for life) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Northamptonshire | Lord Chamberlain to Oliver Cromwell (1657) |
| Sir | Sir Thomas Browne | 1410 | 1460 (Hanged) | High treason | Dover (1439–1444), Kent (1445–1446), Wallingford 1449–1450 | Chancellor of the Exchequer (1440–1450), High Sheriff for Kent in 1443-4 and JP for Surrey from 20 July 1454 till death |
| Sir | Sir Thomas Tresham | 1471 (Beheaded) | High treason | Northamptonshire | Speaker of the House of Commons (1459) & PC | |
| Sir | Sir Richard Empson | 1510 (Beheaded) | High treason | Northamptonshire | Speaker of the House of Commons (1510) & PC | |
| Sir | Sir Edmund Dudley | 1462 | 1510 (Beheaded) | High treason | Sussex | Speaker of the House of Commons (1503) & PC |
| Sir | Sir Christopher Blount | 1556 | 1601 (Beheaded) | High treason | Staffordshire (1593–1601) | |
| Sir | Charles Danvers | 1568 | 1601 (Beheaded) | High treason | Cirencester (1586–1593) | |
| Sir | Sir Thomas Armstrong | 1633 | 1684 (Beheaded) | High treason and the Rye House Plot | Stafford | |
| Sir | Sir John Bourchier | 1595 | 1660 (Too ill to be tried and died soon after the Restoration in 1660) | Regicide of Charles I | Ripon | JP |
| Sir | Sir John Danvers | 1588 | 1655 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Malmesbury | |
| Sir | Sir Peregrine Pelham | 1650 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Hull | Mayor of Hull 1649 | |
| Sir | Sir John Hutchinson | 1615 | 1664 (Imprisoned in Sandown Castle, Kent where he died on 11 September 1664) | Regicide of Charles I | Nottingham | |
| Sir | Sir Henry Marten | 1602 | 1680 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Berkshire | |
| Sir | Sir Richard Ingoldsby | 1617 | 1685 (Pardoned) | Regicide of Charles I | Aylesbury | |
| Sir | Sir John Lisle | 1610 | 1664 (Escaped but then murdered) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Southampton | |
| Sir | Alexander Denton | 1645 (died in Tower of London) | Royalist in Civil war | Buckingham | ||
| Sir | Sir Henry Mildmay | 1593 | 1664 (Stripped of knighthood and died whilst being transported to Tangier) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Maldon | Master of the Kings Jewel House (1620) |
| Major-General Sir | Sir John Barkstead | 1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Middlesex | Governor of Reading and Steward of Cromwell's Household | |
| Major-General Sir | Sir George Fleetwood | 1623 | 1672 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Buckingham | |
| General | Henry Ireton | 1611 | 1651 (posthumous execution of hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Appleby | Lord Deputy of Ireland (1650 until death) |
| Lieutenant-General | Edmund Ludlow | 1617 | 1692 (Surrendered then escaped) | Regicide of Charles I | Wiltshire | Lord Deputy of Ireland (1659–1660) |
| Major-General | Thomas Harrison | 1606 | 1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Wendover | |
| Colonel | James Temple | 1606 | 1680 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Bramber | |
| Colonel | Robert Lilburne | 1613 | 1665 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | East Riding of Yorkshire | Governor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Colonel | John Downes | 1609 | 1666 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Arundel | |
| Colonel | Anthony Stapley | 1590 | 1655 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Sussex | Governor of Chichester and Vice-Admiral of Sussex |
| Colonel | Thomas Wogan | 1620 | (Escaped to the Netherlands) | Regicide of Charles I | Cardigan | Governor of Aberystwyth Castle |
| Colonel | Thomas Waite | 1668 (Life Imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Rutland | Governor of Burley-on-the-Hill High Sheriff of Rutland | |
| Colonel | John Okey | 1606 | 1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Bedfordshire | |
| Mr | John Story | c.1504 | 1571(hanged, drawn and quartered) | High Treason | Downton | Commissioner for heresy 1557-8 |
| Mr | Gregory Clement | 1594 | 1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Fowey | |
| Mr | Thomas Scot | 1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Wycombe | ||
| Mr | John Carew | 1622 | 1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I, also brother of Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet | Tregony | |
| Mr | Miles Corbet | 1595 | 1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered) | Regicide of Charles I | Great Yarmouth | Clerk of the Court of Wards |
| Mr | William Say | 1604 | 1666 (Escaped to Switzerland) | Regicide of Charles I | Camelford | |
| Mr | William Cawley | 1602 | 1667 (Escaped to Switzerland) | Regicide of Charles I | Midhurst | |
| Mr | John Dixwell | 1607 | 1689 (Escaped to America) | Regicide of Charles I | Dover | |
| Mr | Valentine Walton | 1594 | 1661 (Escaped to Germany) | Regicide of Charles I | Huntingdon | |
| Mr | Daniel Blagrave | 1603 | 1668 (Escaped to Germany) | Regicide of Charles I | Reading | Recorder of Reading from 1645 to 1656 and again from 1658 |
| Mr | Simon Mayne | 1612 | 1661 (Died in the Tower of London) | Regicide of Charles I | Aylesbury | |
| Mr | John Blakiston | 1603 | 1649 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Newcastle upon Tyne | Mayor of Newcastle |
| Mr | Humphrey Edwards | 1582 | 1658 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Shropshire | Chief Usher of the Exchequer (1650) and Commissioner of South Wales (1651) |
| Mr | William Purefoy | 1580 | 1659 (Died before justice could be brought – Estate confiscated) | Regicide of Charles I | Warwick | |
| Mr | John Alured | 1607 | 1651 (Died before justice could be brought) | Regicide of Charles I | Hedon | |
| Lord | John Hewson | 1620 | 1668 (Escaped to Amsterdam) | Regicide of Charles I | Guildford | |
| Mr | John Rastell | c.1475 | 1536 (Died in goal) | Anti-church statements | Launceston | |
| Mr | Gilbert Millington | 1598 | 1666 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I | Nottingham | |
| Mr | Augustine Garland | 1603 | Unknown | Regicide of Charles I | Queenborough | |
| Mr | James Chaloner | 1602 | 1660 (Imprisoned) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Yorkshire | |
| Mr | William Heveningham | 1604 | 1678 (Imprisoned) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Stockbridge | |
| Mr | Francis Lascelles | 1612 | 1667 (Forbidden to hold office again) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Northallerton | |
| Mr | Thomas Lister (Regicide) | 1597 | 1668 (Forbidden from holding office again) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Lincolnshire | |
| Mr | Nicholas Love | 1608 | 1682 (Escaped to Switzerland) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Winchester | |
| Mr | Isaac Penington | 1584 | 1661 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | City of London | |
| Mr | Robert Wallop | 1601 | 1667 (Life imprisonment) | Regicide of Charles I though did not sign | Andover | |
| Mr | Liam Mellows | 1895 | 1922 (Executed by firing squad) | Reprisal during Irish Civil War | Galway East |
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