Tower Hill
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Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th centu
10 Trinity Square, Tower Hill
A surviving section of Roman wall on Tower Hill. Great Tower Hill lay inside the wall, Little Tower Hill outside.
The Tower Hill Memorial, marking the site of the Scaffold
Scale model of the Tower of London showing the Bulwark Gate and bastion to the left
Thomas More
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Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry
Tower Hill
…1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester 1535 – Sir Thomas More, ex-Lord Chancellor 1536 – George Boleyn, brother of Anne Boleyn…
Sir Thomas More (1527)
Portrait of Saint Thomas More, executed on Tower Hill (London) in 1535, apparently based on the Holbein portrait
Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger