Dirick Carver

Dirick Carver was a Marian Martyr from Brighton, Sussex, England, who was burnt to death at Lewes on 22 July 1555.

[1] In 1548, Carver, a French-speaking Flemish man from a town near Liège, sought refuge in Brighton from the persecution he was experiencing from the ruling powers of the time in respect of his Calvinist beliefs.

[2] He held Bible reading sessions at his house in Brighton for the next few years until Roman Catholicism was restored as Britain's state religion by Queen Mary I in 1553.

Meetings of Protestants were banned, and Carver was arrested and committed to trial in London for continuing to hold them.

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