George Beesley

George Beesley (or Bisley) (born c. 1562 at The Hill in Goosnargh parish, Lancashire, England; died 2 July 1591) was an English Roman Catholic diocesan priest.

[1] Blessed George Beesley was born into a Catholic family in a farmhouse that is now the presbytery for St. Francis, Hill Chapel.

With the church taken over by the newly established religion, the area Catholics held services in private homes.

A man of singular courage, young, strong, and robust, his torture by Topcliffe left reduced to a skeleton.

[3] He was hanged, drawn and quartered in Fleet Street, London[4] along with Montford Scott under the statute of 27 Eliz.