Edward Stransham (c. 1557, Oxford[1] – executed 21 January 1586, Tyburn) was an English Roman Catholic priest.
[1] In 1579, however, he returned to Reims with four potential students, and was ordained priest at Soissons in December 1580.
Although ill he left for England 30 June 1581, as it was thought his native air might do him good.
He was arrested in Bishopsgate Street Without, London, 17 July 1585, while saying Mass, and was condemned at the next assizes for being a priest.
"In London, in 1586, the blessed martyrs Edward Stransham and Nicholas Wheeler, priests, condemned to death under Queen Elizabeth I because of their priesthood and taken to the gallows at Tyburn.