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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes is one of the Tower of London’s more famous prisoners.
Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stone gate, York. The date of Fawkes's birth is unknown.
In 1579, when Guy was eight years old, his father died and his mother remarried several years later to a Catholic. Fawkes became a Catholic following his mom marriage. Fawkes was an experienced soldier.
In 1604 Fawkes became involved with the members of the gunpowder plot.
Although Fawkes wasn't the main conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot, he probably had one of the most important roles.
 A cellar below the Houses of Parliament was rented by the members of the plot which was filled with 36 barrels of gunpowder. There was enough gunpowder that would have completely destroyed the building. Fawkes was in charge of guarding the gunpowder, and, if he hadn't have been caught, would have been the person that lit it.
He was taken there after being discovered and tortured for four days until he gave up the names of his co-plotters. The signature on his confession is very weak, as opposed to a stronger signature on a later confession, displaying the physical toll the interrogators exacted on him.
 As we were asked if Guy Fawkes considered as a revolutionary we got into a huge struggle and we couldn’t find the answer.
If Fawkes had completed its mission it would count as a "revolutionary" but on the other side Fawkes still have some  implications on our present like Nowadays many people tend to refer to a man as a "guy". Originally, guy was a term for an "ugly" Over time "guy" began to be used as a term for a man (possibly as a half-meant insult), and is a word in common use today.
And on November fifth every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England.
The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605 was a plan to kill King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Other names for the plot are The Powder Treason or The Gunpowder Plot.

 A group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening on November fifth 1605. The plan was to kill the king and kidnap the royal children.

They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the members of Parliament would provide an opportunity for the English Catholics to take over the country.