List of people hanged, drawn and quartered

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a penalty in England, Wales, Ireland and the United Kingdom for several crimes, but mainly for high treason. This method was abolished in 1870.

Date executed	Name	Notes
3 October 1283	Dafydd ap Gruffydd	The last independent ruler of Wales, and the first prominent person to be executed in this manner[1]
23 August 1305	William Wallace	Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence
1318	Gilbert Middleton	Rebellion and treason[2]
3 March 1323	Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle	Treason in the Wars of Scottish Independence[3]
24 November 1326	Hugh Despenser the Younger	For sodomy; contemporary accounts differ on whether he died from the full sentence of being hanged, drawn, and quartered[citation needed]
4 July 1381	Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader)	Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[4][5]
15 July 1381	John Ball	Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[6]
1381–1382	John Buk	Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[7]
1381–1382	Richard de Leycester	Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[7]
6 May 1382	John Wrawe	Aftermath of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt[8]
1388	Thomas Usk	Accused of misleading King Richard II[9]
1400	Thomas Blount	Executed for plotting the overthrow of Henry IV of England in the Epiphany Rising
1401	Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan	Allowed Owain Glyndŵr to escape capture, and therefore disemboweled and dismembered[10]
1404	John Cerle	Killed the Duke of Gloucester and therefore Johannes Cerle was hanged, drawn, and quartered[11]
1459	William Overy	Squire to James, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, leader of the Irish Lancastrians; Overy attempted to arrest Richard, Duke of York as a traitor to the (Lancastrian) King Henry VI but was arrested himself, tried before the Duke and hanged, drawn and quartered for treason, as the Duke of York was at the time calling himself Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and so an attack on his person was judged to be treason.[12][13][14]
1539	Richard Whiting (abbot)	The last Abbot of Glastonbury executed on Glastonbury Tor for treason, alongside two of his monks, John Thorne and Roger James who suffered the same fate.
1541	Francis Dereham	Executed for "Succeeding the King in the Queen's affections" [15]
1550	Humphrey Arundell	Executed for leading the Prayer Book Rebellion[16]
1554	Thomas Wyatt the younger	Sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for Wyatt's rebellion, but the sentence was commuted to beheading[17]
May 1554	William Thomas (scholar)	Accused of planning to murder Mary I of England
1577	Cuthbert Mayne	One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws[18][19]
1577	Edmund Campion	One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales executed under anti-Catholic laws[18][19]
5 July 1581	Matthew Lambert	Miller, known as one of the Wexford Martyrs. Hanged, drawn and quartered in Wexford, Ireland as punishment for aiding the escape of James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass and several Catholic priests from Ireland, and for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy.[20][21]
1 December 1581	Alexander Briant	Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[22]
20 September 1586	Anthony Babington	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot[23]
20 September 1586	John Ballard (Jesuit)	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot[24]
20 September 1586	Chidiock Tichborne	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot
20 September 1586	Henry Donn	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot
20 September 1586	Robert Barnewell	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot
20 September 1586	John Savage	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot
1586	Edward Havington	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, part of the second group which was required by Elizabeth I to hang until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering after public outcry at the horror of the drawing and quartering of 20 September 1586[23]
1586	Charles Tilney	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
1586	Edward Jones	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
1586	John Charnock	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
1586	John Travers	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
1586	Jerome Bellamy	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
1586	Robert Gage	Executed as one of many involved in the Babington plot, hung until "quite dead" before disemboweling and quartering[23]
24 July 1594	John Boste	Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[25][26]
1595	Roderigo Lopez	English doctor executed for allegedly poisoning Elizabeth I. Later believed to be innocent.
7 June 1603	Valentine Thomas	For plotting against Elizabeth I.[27]
30 January 1606	Everard Digby	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Robert Wintour	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	John Grant	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Thomas Bates	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Thomas Wintour	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Ambrose Rookwood	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Robert Keyes	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot
30 January 1606	Guy Fawkes	For involvement in Gunpowder Plot, but he managed to cheat the executioner by jumping from the scaffold while his head was in the noose, breaking his neck.[28][29] His lifeless body was nevertheless drawn and quartered,[30][31] and his body parts distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom".[32]
28 August 1628	Edmund Arrowsmith	Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[33][34]
10 September 1641	Ambrose Barlow	Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[35][36][37]
30 May 1643	George Bouchier	For his activities in the English Civil War[38]
30 May 1643	Robert Yeamans	For his activities in the English Civil War[39]
30 May 1643	Philip Powell	For being a priest[40]
1653	Felim O'Neill of Kinard	Executed for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641[41][42]
28 June 1654	John Southworth	Cromwell ordered that surgeons sew the corpse back together so that it could be sent to Douai College for burial[43]
7 July 1658	Edward Ashton (colonel)	For the plot against the Lord Protector set on foot by agents of Charles II in 1658, and for complicity in which Sir Henry Slingsby and John Hewet were executed[44]
13 October 1660	Col. Thomas Harrison	For regicide of Charles I
1663	Thomas Oates	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot[45][46]
1663	Samuel Ellis	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Nettleton, sr.	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Nettleton, jr.	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Robert Scott	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	William Tolson	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Forster	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Robert Olroyd	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Asquith	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Peregrine Corney	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Snowden	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Smith	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	William Ash	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	John Errington	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Robert Atkins	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	William Colton	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	George Denham	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Henry Watson	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Richard Wilson	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Ralph Rymer	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
1663	Charles Carre	Executed for participating in the Farnley Wood Plot
18 January 1676	Joshua Tefft	Unlawfully fighting with Indians[47]
1678	William Staley	First victim of the Popish Plot[48]
1 July 1681	Oliver Plunkett	Last victim of the Popish Plot
1685	over 200	Charged with treason following the Monmouth Rebellion, their remains were parboiled, tarred, and displayed on poles, trees and lampposts; only when James II conducted a progress through the area were they removed and buried[49]
16 February 1788	Robert Keon	Hanged, drawn, and quartered for murder in a private quarrel[50] John and Henry Sheares, Irish patriots, were hanged on 14 July 1798, outside of Newgate Prison
1766	Nicholas Sheehy	An Irish Catholic Priest who was hanged, drawn and quartered for supposedly aiding the murder of John Bridges (though there are claims that Bridges survived) [51]
20 September 1803	Robert Emmet	Hanged and then beheaded once dead[52] for high treason in the Irish Rebellion of 1803.[53][54][55] He was also the last person to be executed in this way

The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as pictured in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse

See also

• Leisler's Rebellion#Execution, in New York City, 1691.