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Guy Fawkes

English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

  • Fame65.0
  • Momentum30.0
  • Wikipedia98.3K
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Lived 1570–1606, aged 36United Kingdom
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  • Era
    1570–1606
    Aged 36
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

The man whose name became a bonfire. Every November 5th since 1605, the UK has burned Guy Fawkes in effigy — not because he succeeded, but because he was caught 36 barrels of gunpowder deep beneath Parliament, hours from lighting the match.

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Born in York in 1570, Fawkes lost his father at eight and grew up in a household that turned Catholic after his mother remarried. He left England to fight for Spain against Protestant forces in the Low Countries, then tried and failed to drum up Spanish backing for a Catholic uprising back home. Thomas Wintour brought him into Robert Catesby's circle, which planned to kill King James I and install a Catholic monarch. Fawkes drew the job of guarding the gunpowder stockpiled in a rented undercroft beneath the House of Lords. An anonymous letter tipped the authorities, who found him there in the…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes
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A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
— Remark (6 November 1605) as quoted in The Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 6 (1917); He is here invoking a version of a famous
Guy Fawkes
saidundated
... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.
— Remark as quoted in "Gunpowder Treason and Plot" (1976) by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. It was said in response to one of the lords of the
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Source confidence60.0
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