George Tankerfield

George Tankerfield (born c.1528 - died 26 August 1555) was an English Protestant martyr who was burned at the stake in St Albans during the persecution of Protestants under Queen Mary I.

Biography Tankerfield's biography was related by John Foxe in his Foxe's Book of Martyrs. According to Foxe Tankerfield was born in York and worked as a cook in St Albans, having came from London. The print was produced by Thomas Bowles II and may have illustrated an edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Tankerfield gives his name to Tankerfield Place, an apartment development built in the late 1970s. A stone in Romeland Gardens marks the place where he was executed.