In the first decade of the 20th century small buildings, courts and yards bordering Trinity Square were cleared to make way for the construction of the Port of London Authority headquarters at 10 Trinity Square. In the 1880s, a section of the London Underground Circle Line was constructed beneath Trinity Square Gardens. 1747 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Īfter the abandonment of Tower Hill as a site for public executions, Trinity Square and Gardens were laid out in 1797 by Samuel Wyatt as the setting for Trinity House, completed a year earlier as headquarters of the Corporation of Trinity House.1746 – Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino.1746 – William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.1716 - William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.1716 – James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater.1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.1651 – Christopher Love, Presbyterian minister.1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.1641 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.1631 – Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven.1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.1554 - 12th February, 17 Year old Lady Jane Grey.1552 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.1552 – Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle.1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.1540 – Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury.1540 – Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex.1538 – Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon.1537 – Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy.1536 – George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn.1535 – Sir Thomas More, ex-Lord Chancellor.1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.1499 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick.1497 – James Tuchet, a commander of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.1470 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester.1462 – Aubrey de Vere, eldest son and heir of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.1462 – John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.1397 – Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel.1388 – John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (fourth creation).1381 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (beheaded by an angry mob).Some 120 executions are chronicled and they include:.
Lord Lovat’s execution for high treason in 1747 was the last judicial beheading in England while the final executions on Tower Hill were hangings in 1780. The backgrounds to these ranged from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the Wars of the Roses Lollardism claims to the throne by Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel Reformation Pilgrimage of Grace Monmouth Rebellion Jacobite Rising and the Gordon Riots of 1780.
Public executions of high-profile traitors and criminals, often attainted peers, as well as innocent Catholics in the 16th century, were carried out on Tower Hill. The Tower Hill Memorial, marking the site of the Scaffold
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