Wat Tyler

Walter "Wat" Tyler (1341-1381) was the leader of a peasants' revolt in England in 1381 that demanded an egalitarian restructuring of English society. Tyler led an army of fifty thousand peasants in a march on Canterbury and captured that city. He was then invited to parlay with King Richard II. During this parlay, he was fatally stabbed by several of Richard's partisans under circumstances that are not entirely clear.

Wat Tyler in Atlantis
Wat Tyler's rallying cry on behalf of egalitarianism was very popular among the Atlantean settlers of New Hastings. Their rebellion against the Earl of Warwick was based on the same egalitarian philosophies as Tyler's had been ninety years earlier.