Lord Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, was a rich landowner who fell out of favour after being implicated in a rebellion against the Tudor monarch. The aristocrat was the great-great-great-grandfather of Captain Christopher Hussey, who became the founding father of Nantucket in Massachusetts. Lord Hussey was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, in 1465 as the son of Sir William Hussey, chief justice of the King's Bench. He won a knighthood in 1497 fighting against Cornish rebels at the Battle of Blackheath, and rose to become Henry VIII's bodyguard. But he fell from favour for his involvement in the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace, which led to him being locked up in the Tower of London and then beheaded.

Source: Daily Mail November 19, 2017 01:52 UTC