be publicly beheaded with an axe in the United Kingdom in 1817. Trevor Ashmore, famous for his museum quality forgeries of Anglo-Saxon and early English coinage Michael Willetts, one of the first British soldiers to be killed during The Troubles in Northern Ireland Jimmy Walker, football goalkeeper previously of Walsall and West Ham Alex Baptiste, football defender for Mansfield Town, Blackpool F.C. and Bolton Wanderers. Horace Burrows, footballer for Sheffield Wednesday and England Steve Ogrizovic, football goalkeeper for Chesterfield, Shrewsbury, Liverpool and Coventry City Wayne Bullimore, footballer for Barnsley Lisa McKenzie, sociologist based at Durham University John Briggs (1862–1902) born in Lord Street, the only man to have scored a 100 and taken a hat-trick in the history of Ashes cricket Joel Peat, lead guitarist in band Lawson Parosha Chandran, first professor of modern slavery law at King's College, London, human rights barrister See also Listed buildings in Sutton-in-Ashfield References External links Ashfield District Council Sutton History Page Sutton Heritage Society Towns in Nottinghamshire Unparished areas in Nottinghamshire Ashfield District