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 Austin (bishop) He was ordained in 1965 and began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St John the Evangelist's East Dulwich. He then held positions in Chicago and Walworth before becoming the "Social Responsibility Adviser" to the Diocese of St Albans. Appointed the Director of the London Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility in 1984, he was a committed campaigner for social justice. John Austin (bishop) John Michael Austin (14 March 193917 August 2007) was the Bishop of Aston from 1992 to 2005, filling a post which had been vacant since the previous incumbent Colin Ogilvie Buchanan resigned in 1989. After Austin