Born:
c.1498 at Tealing, Essex, England

Short Biography:
Son of John Rochester of Terling and Grisold of Bobbingworth. Carthusian choir monk at the London Charterhouse. Priest. Exiled by the government to the Charterhouse of Saint Michael at Hull, Yorkshire. Martyred with Blessed James Walworth for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church.

Died:
hanged in chains from the battlements of York, England on 11 May 1537