Ralph Sherwin

Ralph Sherwin (25 October 1550 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed in 1581.

[1] After spending a year in prison he was finally brought to trial with Edmund Campion on a charge of treasonable conspiracy.

Eleven days later he was taken to Tyburn on a hurdle along with Alexander Briant and Edmund Campion, where the three martyrs were hanged, drawn and quartered.

On the scaffold Ralph Sherwin again "professed his innocence, proclaimed his Catholic faith, and prayed for the Queen".

[7] A Catholic church in the Chellaston area of Derby, registered in January 1981, was dedicated to Ralph Sherwin.

A plaque in his birthplace erected by the Shewin Society