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Roll of Honour. List of politicians murdered or assassinated in England Wales and Scotland.(Wikipedia)

Victim(s)	Assassin(s)	Notes
293	Carausius, usurper of the Western Roman Empire
946	Edmund I, King of England		Stabbed at a banquet
978	Edward the Martyr, King of England
995	Kenneth II, King of Scotland
1100	William Rufus, King of England	Walter Tirel	Shot in the heart with an arrow, supposedly by accident, but the circumstances remain unclear.
1170	Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury	Four knights	Stabbed to death in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of Henry II of England
1306	John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch	Robert the Bruce, Roger de Kirkpatrick
1346	Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí	William III, Earl of Ross	Killed at Elcho Priory whilst attending a royal muster on the eve of a Scottish invasion of England.
1381	Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer		Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants’ Revolt.
1381	Simon of Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London		Beheaded at Tower Hill by rebels during the Peasants’ Revolt.
1381	John Cavendish, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge		Beheaded in Bury St Edmunds by rebels during the Peasants’ Revolt.
1437	King James I of Scotland	Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (coup leader),Sir Robert Graham (dealt lethal blow)	Killed at Perth on the night of 20–1 February in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart.
1452	William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas	James II of Scotland
1471	Henry VI of England, King of England		Killed in the Tower of London likely on the orders of Edward IV of England.
1488	King James III of Scotland		Killed by rebels.
1567	Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots		Killed at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh
1570	James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland	James Hamilton	The first assassination carried out with a firearm.
1628	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham,Lord High Admiral/royal favourite	John Felton	Stabbed in Portsmouth whilst planning a second expedition to La Rochelle.
1679	James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews		Killed in Fife, near St Andrews.
1812	Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	John Bellingham	The only British prime minister to be assassinated.
1812	Louis-Alexandre de Launay, French diplomat		Stabbed to death with a stiletto by his former servant at his home inBarnes. His wife was also killed.
1916	Lord Kitchener, British Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War		Killed on the HMS Hampshire after the cruiser struck a mine off Orkney. His body was never recovered. Some claim that Kitchener was deliberately assassinated; Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a German spy, claimed to have orchestrated the sinking of the Hampshire.
June 22, 1922	Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal, retired Chief of the Imperial General Staffand Conservative politician[3]	Reginald Dunne and Joseph O’Sullivan	Killed outside his house in Eaton Square, London, by voluntary members of the Irish Republican Army.
1940	Michael O’Dwyer, former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab	Udham Singh, a Punjabi revolutionary	Killed during a speech at Caxton Hall, London.
1973	Paddy Wilson, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician		Stabbed to death in Belfast, along with his friend Irene Andrews. SeePaddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings.
1975	Ross McWhirter, co-author of the Guinness Book of Records and right wing political activist	Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty	Killed outside his home in Bush Hill Park, London, by members of theBalcombe Street Gang, both of whom were Irish Republican Armyvolunteers.
1977	Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri, past prime minister of Yemen Arab Republic		Killed in London.
1978	Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident		Died in London after being attacked with ricin fired from a gun disguised as an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge.
July 9, 1978	Abdul Razak al-Naif, former Prime Minister of Iraq		Killed in London
1979	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, former Governor-General of India	Thomas McMahon	Killed along with three others while on a fishing trip with his family by a bomb planted onto his boat by McMahon. McMahon was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack.
1979	Airey Neave, British Conservative politician		Car bombing outside Palace of Westminster, by members of the Irish National Liberation Army
1980	John Turnley, SDLP and Irish Independence Party politician	UDA	Killed while on the way to a political meeting.
1981	Sir Norman Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician, and his son, Sir James Stronge, aristocrat and Northern Irish politician	IRA members	Both were killed by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army at their ancestral home, Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, which the Provisional IRA later set on fire.
1981	Robert Bradford, Unionist MP in Northern Ireland	IRA members	Murdered during a speech at Finaghy in Belfast.
1982	Shlomo Argov, Israeli Ambassador to theCourt of St. James’s		Although Argov survived this assassination attempt, the injuries he sustained in the attack resulted in his death in 2003.
1983	Edgar Graham, Ulster Unionist politician		Shot by an IRA gunman outside Queens University Belfast.
1987	George Seawright, Northern Ireland politician	IPLO members	Killed by the Irish People’s Liberation Organisation in Shankill, Belfast.
1989	Patrick Finucane, solicitor	Ken Barrett	Killed in Belfast by Ulster Loyalists.
1990	Ian Gow, British Conservative politician	IRA members	Killed by a car bomb near his house in East Sussex.
1997	Billy Wright, Loyalist Volunteer Force leader	INLA prisoners	Killed in Maze Prison.
1999	Jill Dando, British television presenter		Shot outside her own home in Fulham, London by unknown hand.
2006	Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer and critic of Vladimir Putin	Unknown figures within the government of Russia	Acute radiation syndrome via ingestion of polonium-210. See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
2016	Jo Cox, Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen