
1550–1606
Nicholas Owen, S.J., (c.
Nicholas Owen, S.J., (c. 1562 â 1/2 March 1606) was an English Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. Owen built many priest holes in the buildings of English Catholics from 1588 until his final arrest in 1606, when he was tortured to death by prison authorities in the Tower of London. Owen is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
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Francis Tregian the Elder (1548â1608) was a Cornish recusant and landowner in Cornwall.
Annot Robinson, nicknamed Annie, (née Wilkie; 8 June 1874 â 29 September 1925) was a Scottish suffragette and pacifist.
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John Maclean (24 August 1879 â 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era.
William Combe (25 March 1742 â 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer.