Claim: Thomas Holford was born in tha late 1600s and died in the early 1700s in Manila.
Evidence: 1541
Cheshire 28 August 1588
Clerkenwell 
Blessed Thomas Holford (sometimes called Thomas Acton) (1541–1588) was an English Protestant schoolteacher who became a Catholic priest during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was hanged (though not drawn and quartered) on 28 August 1588, at Clerkenwell.