Tyburn, London

Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex which now forms part of London's City of Westminster. It took its name from the Tyburn or Ty Bourne stream, a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames at Vauxhall.

People executed at Tyburn

Among those executed at Tyburn were:

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• Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (November 29 1330) - accused of assuming royal power etc, hanged without trial
• Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank (24 June 1497) - leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497
• Perkin Warbeck (November 23 1499) - treason and pretender to the throne of Henry VII, passing himself off as Richard IV, the younger of the two Princes in the Tower
• Elizabeth Barton, "The Holy Maid of London" (April 20 1534) - she was a Catholic supporter who prophecised that King Henry VIII would die within six months if he married Anne Boleyn; she was hanged for treason
• John Houghton, prior of Charterhouse (May 4 1535) - refusing to sign the Oath of allegiance to King Henry VIII
• Thomas Culpeper (December 10 1541) - courtier, as a result of an affair with Henry VIII's fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard
• Edmund Campion (December 1 1581) - Roman Catholic martyr
• Robert "Lucky" Hubert (September 28 1666) - hanged after (falsely) confessing to starting the Great Fire of London
• Claude Duval (January 21 1670) - gentleman highwayman
• Jack Sheppard ("Gentleman Jack") (November 16 1724) - notorious thief
• Jonathan Wild, Sheppard's opponent, (May 24) 1725) - organized crime lord
• Five of the men who had been arrested at Mother Clap's molly house (May 9 1726)
• Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl of Ferrers (May 5 1760) - the only peer to have been hanged for murder
• Rev. James Hackman (April 19 1779) - murder of Martha Ray, mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
• John Austin (November 3 1783) - last person executed at Tyburn