Sir Everard Digby

Perpetrator in The Gunpowder Plot

Wealthy young convert who was to lead the Midlands rising; the only defendant to plead guilty.

1605–1606 · Palace of Westminster, London · Executed

Thirty-six barrels of powder under the House of Lords, an anonymous letter, and a man called 'John Johnson' with a lantern: the plot behind Bonfire Night. Read the case.