Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes, attempted to bomb Parliament in defiance of the Protestant King James I.

Biography
Fawkes was a Catholic. He learnt his trade of gunpowder

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when he fought with the Spanish against Dutch Protestants. (VG: The Gunpowder Plot)

One account suggests that following the collapse of the plot, Robert Catesby and Sir Thomas Percy fled to Holbech House in Staffordshire, where they were shot and killed by the Sheriff of Worcester's men. Also killed was the genuine Guy Fawkes. The presence of the First Doctor and his companions had slightly altered history so that Fawkes died a year early. Sir Robert Cecil, King James' chief minister, immediately seized upon the political opportunity inherent in a dead Fawkes. He fingered his political rival, Robert Hay, as Fawkes, allowing for Hay's execution under Fawkes' name the next year. History thus healed itself. (MA: The Plotters)

Another account suggests that Fawkes was trapped inside a locked room filled with barrels of gunpowder beneath Parliament, when he lit five of them in another room to launch a Rutan ship belonging to the Rutan plotter Lady Winters as the Eleventh Doctor briefly put Parliament safely in orbit. As he attempted to set off the remaining 36, King James' men captured him. (VG: The Gunpowder Plot)

His failure was celebrated yearly on Bonfire Night, when effigies of him were burned. During one of these celebrations, an alien animated the dummies to attack the crowd. Following the death of the alien, they returned to normal. (WC: The Night After Hallowe'en)