Tyburn Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a highwayman, was hanged; for the next eighty-five years hangings were staged outside Newgate prison. Then, in 1868, due to public disorder during these public executions, it was decided to execute the convicts inside the prison. The site of the gallows is now marked by three young oak trees that were planted in 2014 on an island in the middle of Edgware Road at its junction with Bayswater Road. Between the trees is a roundel with the inscription "The site of Tyburn Tree". It is also commemorated by
John Damer (1720–1783) no children. John Damer (1720–1783) John Damer (1720–1783) was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1762 to 1780. Damer was the second son of Joseph Damer MP of Winterborne Came, and his wife Mary Churchill, daughter of John Churchill of Henbury, Dorset, and was born on 27 October 1720. He married Martha Rush, daughter of Samuel Rush of Benhall, Suffolk in 15 April 1745. By 1751 his brother Joseph Damer, Lord Milton had acquired property at Milton Abbey and John Damar was left in possession of Winterborne Came. In 1754 he commissioned