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• Alexander Briant
Biography of the famous alumnus of Hertford College.
http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/briant.htm

• Blessed Alexander Briant
English Jesuit priest and martyr. "The beautiful youth" was tortured in the Tower and then executed at Tyburn. He was scarcely over 25 when martyred in 1581.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01296b.htm

• Edmund Campion, Alexander Briant, & Ralph Sherwin
All three martyred at Tyburn on 1 December, 1581. They were canonized in 1970 as part of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1201.htm#ralp