 Henry Garnet ( July 1555 – 3 May 1606 ) , sometimes Henry Garnett , was an English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 . Born in Heanor , Derbyshire , he was educated in Nottingham and later at Winchester College , before he moved to London in 1571 , to work for a publisher . There he professed an interest in legal studies , and in 1575 he travelled to the continent and joined the Society of Jesus . He was ordained in Rome some time around 1582 . 
