Honouring individuals with burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition.

History

Elizabeth I of England grave (left) 2013

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...

in honour of the Royal Saint

Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. Edward was the son of Æth ...

, whose relics were placed in a

shrine A shrine ( la, scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: ''escrin'' "box or case") is a sacred or holy sacred space, space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor worship, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, Daemon (mythology), daem ...

in the sanctuary and now lie in a burial vault beneath the 1268 Cosmati mosaic pavement, in front of the high altar. Henry III himself was interred nearby in a

chest tomb Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and comm ...

with effigial monument. Many of the

Plantagenet The House of Plantagenet () was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The family held the English throne from 1154 (with the accession of Henry II at the end of the Anarchy) to 1485, when Richard III died in batt ...

kings of England, their wives and other relatives, were also buried in the abbey. From the time of Edward the Confessor, until the death of

George II George II or 2 may refer to: People * George II of Antioch (seventh century AD) * George II of Armenia (late ninth century) * George II of Abkhazia (916–960) * Patriarch George II of Alexandria (1021–1051) * George II of Georgia (1072–1089) * ...

in 1760, most kings and queens of England were buried here, although there are exceptions (most notably

Edward IV Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...

Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...

and

Charles I Charles I may refer to: Kings and emperors * Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings * Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily * Charles I of ...

, who are buried in St George's Chapel,

Windsor Castle Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history. The original cast ...

). All monarchs who died after

were buried in Windsor; most were laid to rest in St George's Chapel, although

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...

and

Edward VIII Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 19 ...

are buried at

Frogmore Frogmore is an estate within the Home Park, adjoining Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. It comprises , of primarily private gardens managed by the Crown Estate. It is the location of Frogmore House, a royal retreat, and Frogmore Cottage. ...

, where the royal family has a private cemetery. Since the Middle Ages, aristocrats were buried inside chapels, while monks and other people associated with the abbey were buried in the

cloister A cloister (from Latin ''claustrum'', "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a ...

s and other areas. One of these was

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...

, who was employed as master of the King's Works and had apartments in the abbey. Other poets, writers and musicians were buried or memorialised around Chaucer in what became known as the

Poets' Corner Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in the City of Westminster, London because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there. The first poe ...

. These include:

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

John Dryden '' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the per ...

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...

, T. S. Eliot,

Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classics, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his ''Elegy Written in a Country ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovato ...

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculo ...

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

Jenny Lind Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (6 October 18202 November 1887) was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and a ...

John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ''The Box of Delights'', and the poem ...

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...

Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the Theatre of the U ...

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...

, Nicholas Rowe,

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...

Thomas Shadwell Thomas Shadwell ( – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689. Life Shadwell was born at either Bromehill Farm, Weeting-with-Broomhill or Santon House, Lynford, Norfolk, and educated at Bury ...

Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...

and

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ' ...

. Abbey musicians such as

Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...

were also buried in their place of work. Subsequently, it became one of Britain's most significant honours to be buried or commemorated here. The practice of burying national figures in the abbey began under

Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...

with the burial of Admiral

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, in 1657. The practice spread to include generals, admirals, politicians, doctors and scientists such as Sir

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...

, buried on 4 April 1727 and

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

, buried on 19 April 1882. British Prime Ministers buried in the abbey are:

William Pitt the Elder William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish ...

William Pitt the Younger William Pitt the Younger (28 May 175923 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain (before the Acts of Union 1800) and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ire ...

George Canning George Canning (11 April 17708 August 1827) was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the Unit ...

Viscount Palmerston Viscount Palmerston was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 12 March 1723 for Henry Temple, who subsequently represented East Grinstead, Bossiney and Weobley in the British House of Commons. He was made Baron Temple, of Mount T ...

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...

Bonar Law Andrew Bonar Law ( ; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923. Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now a ...

Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasemen ...

and

Clement Attlee Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Mini ...

. During the early 20th century, for reasons of space, it became increasingly common to bury

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remains rather than coffins. In 1905, the actor Sir

Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...

was cremated and his ashes buried in the abbey, thereby becoming the first person ever to be cremated prior to interment. This marked a milestone as after the death of Sir

Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of t ...

in December 1911, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey chose to offer Hooker a grave near

's in the

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, but also ''insisted'' that he be cremated before. His widow however declined and so Hooker's body was buried in the churchyard of

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. The majority of interments are of cremated remains, but some burials still take place – Frances Challen, wife of the Rev. Sebastian Charles,

Canon of Westminster The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are the ecclesiastical governing body of Westminster Abbey, a collegiate church of the Church of England and royal peculiar in Westminster, Greater London. They consist of the dean and several canons meeting in ...

, was buried alongside her husband in the south choir aisle in 2014. Members of the

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have a family vault, "The Northumberland Vault", in St Nicholas's Chapel, within the abbey. The ashes of physicist Stephen Hawking were interred in the Abbey on 15 June 2018, near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. The memorial stone, bearing the inscription 'Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942–2018', includes a form of the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy equation relating to black holes. In the floor just inside the great west door, in the centre of the nave, is the tomb of

The Unknown Warrior The British grave of the Unknown Warrior (often known as 'The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior') holds an unidentified member of the British armed forces killed on a European battlefield during the First World War.Hanson, Chapters 23 & 24 He was gi ...

, an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in the abbey on 11 November 1920. There are many graves in the floors, but this is the only grave on which it is forbidden to walk.

Burials

* See also: :Burials at Westminster Abbey

British monarchs and consorts

The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and consorts are buried in the abbey: *

, King of England, in 1066 *

Edith of Wessex Edith of Wessex ( 1025 – 18 December 1075) was Queen of England from her marriage to Edward the Confessor in 1045 until Edward died in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal source on ...

, Queen consort of England; wife of Edward the Confessor * Henry III, King of England *

Eleanor of Castile Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 November 1290) was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I, whom she married as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony. The marriage was known to be particularly close, and ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1290 (

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and heart at

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); wife of Edward I *

Edward I Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal o ...

, King of England, in 1307 *

Philippa of Hainault Philippa of Hainault (sometimes spelled Hainaut; Middle French: ''Philippe de Hainaut''; 24 June 1310 (or 1315) – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife and political adviser of King Edward III. She acted as regent in 1346,Strickla ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1370; wife of Edward III *

Edward III Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring r ...

, King of England, in 1377 *

Anne of Bohemia Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394), also known as Anne of Luxembourg, was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1394; wife of Richard II *

Richard II Richard II (6 January 1367 – ), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent. Richard's father died ...

, King of England, in 1413 (reburial from King's Langley Priory) *

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (121 ...

, King of England, in 1422 *

Catherine of Valois Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of Charles VI of France, she was married to Henry V of England and gave birth to his heir Henry VI of Englan ...

, Queen consort of England; wife of Henry V * Possibly the

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(

Edward V Edward V (2 November 1470 – mid-1483)R. F. Walker, "Princes in the Tower", in S. H. Steinberg et al, ''A New Dictionary of British History'', St. Martin's Press, New York, 1963, p. 286. was ''de jure'' King of England and Lord of Ireland fro ...

, King of England, and his younger brother,

Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

), sons of

and

Elizabeth Woodville Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile;Although spelling of the family name is usually modernised to "Woodville", it was spelt "Wydeville" in contemporary publications by Caxton, but her tomb at St. George's Chapel, Wind ...

Anne Neville Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker"). Before her marriage to Ric ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1485; wife of

Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster (13 October 1453 – 4 May 1471), also known as Edward of Lancaster, was the only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou. He was killed aged seventeen at the Battle of Tewkesbury. Early life Edward was born ...

and

Richard III Richard III (2 October 145222 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Battl ...

Elizabeth of York Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until her death in 1503. Elizabeth married Henry after his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which ma ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1503; wife of Henry VII * Henry VII, King of England, in 1509 *

Edward VI Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first E ...

, King of England, in 1553 *

Anne of Cleves Anne of Cleves (german: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July 1557) was Queen of England from 6 January to 12 July 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. Not much is known about Anne before 1527, when she became betrothed to Francis, Duke of ...

, Queen consort of England, in 1557; fourth wife of

Mary I Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...

, Queen of England, in 1558 *

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, Queen of Scotland and Queen dowager of France, in 1612 (reburial from

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); mother of

James VI and I James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". El ...

, Queen of England, in 1603 *

Anne of Denmark Anne of Denmark (; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I; as such, she was Queen of Scotland The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional fo ...

, Queen consort of England and Scotland, in 1619; wife of James VI and I *

, King of England and Scotland, in 1625 * Charles II, King of England and Scotland, in 1685 *

Mary II Mary II (30 April 166228 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, William III & II, from 1689 until her death in 1694. Mary was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York, and his first wife ...

, Queen of England and Scotland, in 1695 *

William III William III or William the Third may refer to: Kings * William III of Sicily (c. 1186–c. 1198) * William III of England and Ireland or William III of Orange or William II of Scotland (1650–1702) * William III of the Netherlands and Luxembourg ...

, King of England and Scotland, in 1702 *

Prince George of Denmark Prince George of Denmark ( da, Jørgen; 2 April 165328 October 1708) was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He was the consort of the British monarch from Anne's accession on 8 March 1702 until his death in 1708. The marriage of Georg ...

, Duke of Cumberland, in 1708; husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain *

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, Queen of Great Britain, in 1714 *

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, Queen consort of Great Britain, in 1737; wife of George II *

, King of Great Britain, in 1760

Other royal relatives

* Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Leicester and Lancaster, in 1301; son of Henry III and

Eleanor of Provence Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291) was a French noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry III from 1236 until his death in 1272. She served as regent of England during the absence of her spouse in 1253. ...

Katherine of England Katherine of England (Old English: ''Katerine''; 25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257) was the fifth child of Henry III and his wife, Eleanor of Provence. According to 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris, when Katherine died she was deaf and may h ...

; daughter of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence * Henry of England, in 1274; son of

and

* Alphonso of England, Earl of Chester, in 1284 (heart at

); son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile *

Eleanor of England Eleanor of England ( es, Leonor; – 31 October 1214), was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile. She was the sixth child and second daughter of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Early life and fa ...

, Countess of Bar, in 1298; daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile *

John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall John of Eltham, 1st Earl of Cornwall (15 August 1316 – 13 September 1336) was the second son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France. He was heir presumptive to the English throne until the birth of his nephew Edward, the Black Princ ...

, in 1337; son of

Edward II Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to t ...

and

Isabella of France Isabella of France ( – 22 August 1358), sometimes described as the She-Wolf of France (), was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward II, and regent of England from 1327 until 1330. She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving ...

Elizabeth Tudor Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Eliz ...

, in 1495; daughter of Henry VII and

* Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, in 1500; son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York *

Lady Margaret Beaufort Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: or ; 31 May 1441/43 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. A descendant of ...

, Countess of Richmond and Derby; mother of Henry VII * Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall, in 1511; son of

and

Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously ...

Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox Charles Stuart, 5th Earl of Lennox (April or May 1557 – April 1576), was the fourth son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas, daughter of Margaret Tudor and granddaughter of King Henry VII of England. His brother was Hen ...

; great-grandson of Henry VII and paternal uncle to

* Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox; daughter of

Margaret Tudor Margaret Tudor (28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 by marriage to King James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son's minority, and successfully fought to extend her regency. Marg ...

and

Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (c. 148922 January 1557) was a Scottish nobleman active during the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the son of George, Master of Angus, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden, and suc ...

* Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, in 1612; son of

and

Lady Arbella Stuart Lady Arbella Stuart (also Arabella, or Stewart; 1575 – 25 September 1615) was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. During the reign of King James VI and I (her first cousin), she marrie ...

; great-great-granddaughter of Henry VII and paternal cousin to

* Charles James Stuart, Duke of Cornwall; infant son of

and

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The following are buried in the

: * Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby * John André * The Right Reverend Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester * Clement Attlee, Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee * Sir Charles Barry * Ernest Bevin * Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts *

* Admiral of the Red Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald and Marquess of Maranhão * Vice Admiral Charles Cornewall *

* Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town * Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon * George Graham (clockmaker), George Graham * Stephen Hawking * John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet * Ben Jonson, Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (buried upright) *Bonar Law, Andrew Bonar Law * David Livingstone (heart buried in Zambia) * Charles Lyell, Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet * Sir

* Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer * Ernest Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson * Sir George Gilbert Scott * Robert Stephenson * Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond * George Edmund Street * Sir J. J. Thomson, Joseph John "J.J." Thomson * William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin * Thomas Tompion *

(entombed in 1920) * Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield * Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

North Transept

The following are buried in the Transept, North Transept: *

* Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning * William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham * Charles James Fox *

* Henry Grattan *

* Major General Sir John Malcolm * David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount of Stormont * William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield * Theodore Paleologus (Junior), Theodore Paleologus II * Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston * Sir Hugh Vaughan (Governor of Jersey), Hugh Vaughan * William Wilberforce

South Transept

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View of the west wall of Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

The following are buried in the South Transept which is known as the

: * Robert Adam * Robert Browning * William Camden * Thomas Campbell (poet), Thomas Campbell *

* William Congreve * Abraham Cowley * Sir William Davenant * Sir John Denham (poet), John Denham *

* Michael Drayton *

* Adam Fox (poet), Adam Fox * David Garrick * John Gay * Gabriel Goodman * George Frideric Handel * Thomas Hardy (heart buried in Stinsford) * Sir

* Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay *

* Anne Oldfield * Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier * Old Tom Parr, Thomas "Old Tom" Parr * Richard Brinsley Sheridan * Edmund Spenser * Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Cloisters

The following are buried in the Cloisters: * Edmund Ayrton * Aphra Behn * General John Burgoyne * Muzio Clementi * Benjamin Cooke * Robert Cooke (organist), Robert Cooke * Percy Dearmer, Percival "Percy" Dearmer * Laurence of Durham, Abbot ''c.'' 1158 – 1173 * Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale * Jeremy Heywood, Jeremy Heywood, Baron Heywood of Whitehall * William de Humez, Abbot 1214 – 1222 * Howard Nixon * John Parsons (organist), John Parsons * Johann Peter Salomon * William Shield * Herbert Thorndike * John Thorndike (settler), John Thorndike * William Turner (composer), William Turner * James Wright (governor), James Wright

North Choir Aisle

The following are buried in the North Choir Aisle: * John Blow *

* Almeric de Courcy, 23rd Baron Kingsale * John Robinson (organist), John Robinson * Admiral Sir Edward Spragge * Ralph Vaughan Williams * Sir William Sterndale Bennett

South Choir Aisle

The following are buried in the South Choir Aisle: * Andrew Bell (educationalist), Andrew Bell * James Kendall (politician), James Kendall * Sir Paul Methuen (diplomat), Paul Methuen * Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell * Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson * Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth

Ambulatory chapels

The following are buried in the ambulatory chapels:

St. John the Baptist Chapel

* Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter * Dorothy Cecil, Countess of Exeter; first wife of Thomas Cecil and daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer

St. Nicholas' Chapel

Northumberland Vault: * George Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp; only son of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset * General Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset * Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1699), Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset; wife of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset and paternal granddaughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth * Lady Elizabeth Percy; only daughter of Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland * Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland and 2nd Baroness Percy; wife of Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset * Elizabeth Percy; second daughter of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley * Lady Charlotte Percy; eldest daughter of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland * Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland * Lord Henry Percy; second son of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland * Lady Louisa Percy; fifth daughter of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley * Hon. Algernon Percy; eldest son of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland * Hon. Henry Percy; second son of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland * Hon. Margaret Percy; second daughter of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland * Isabella Percy, Countess of Beverley; wife of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley and daughter of Peter Burrell (1724–1775), Peter Burrell; sister of Frances Percy, Duchess of Northumberland * Lieutenant General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland * Lady Elizabeth Percy; second daughter of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland * Frances Percy, Duchess of Northumberland; second wife of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Peter Burrell (1724–1775), Peter Burrell; sister of Isabella Percy, Countess of Beverley * Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland * Lady Agnes Buller; wife of Major General Frederick Thomas Buller and twin sister of Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland * Admiral Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland * Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland; wife of the Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis; governess of Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (the future

) * George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland * General Lord Henry Percy; fifth son of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Lady Louisa Percy; eldest daughter of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland * Louisa Percy, Duchess of Northumberland; wife of Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Henry Drummond (1786–1860), Henry Drummond * Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland * Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland * Helen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, Helen Percy'','' Duchess of Northumberland; wife of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond * Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland * Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1922–2012), Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (ashes); wife of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland and daughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch; paternal niece of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

St Paul's Chapel

* Katherine Percy, Countess of Northumberland; wife of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer * Sir Lewis Robessart, Lewis de Robessart, Baron Bourchier *Elizabeth Bourchier, 4th Baroness Bourchier

Other ambulatory chapels

* Sir Robert Aytoun * Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester * Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex * Sir Rowland Hill *Frances, Lady Ingram; wife of Sir Thomas Ingram and daughter of Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg *Mary Ingram; daughter of Sir Thomas Ingram *Sir Thomas Ingram (Royalist), Thomas Ingram * Simon Langham * Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury * William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke * George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham * Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham, Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham and 18th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley; wife of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and daughter of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland

Henry VII's Lady Chapel

The following are buried in the Henry VII Chapel, Henry VII's Chapel: * Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier; brother of Louis Philippe I, Louis Philippe I of France * Joseph Addison (a white marble statue in Poets' Corner) * Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding * George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle * George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax * Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard * Major General Charles Worsley (no memorial remains) Unknown location * Sir Arthur Ingram (omission from the main burial register during the English Civil War)

Memorials

The following are commemorated in the abbey and/or had their memorial service in the abbey, but were buried elsewhere:

Individuals

Monument to James Cornewall, Westminster Abbey

Monument to Captain Edward Cooke, missing dedecation

* Christopher Anstey — buried at St. Swithin's Church, Bath, Somerset, Bath, Somerset * Dame Peggy Ashcroft — cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London; ashes scattered in the Great Garden at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire * W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh "W. H." Auden — buried in Kirchstetten, Austria * Jane Austen — buried in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire * Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — Baden-Powell grave, buried in alongside the ashes of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, Olave Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell, in Nyeri, Kenya * Stanley Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley — cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London; ashes buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire * Admiral

— initially buried in the abbey, but moved to St Margaret's, Westminster in 1661 * William Booth — buried in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London * Sir Adrian Boult — body willed to science * Benjamin Britten, Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh — buried at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk * Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Emily Brontë — buried in the family vault at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, West Yorkshire; Anne Brontë is buried in at St Mary's Church, Scarborough, St Mary's Church, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scarborough, North Yorkshire * Lord Byron, George Byron, 6th Baron Byron — buried at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire * Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman — buried in Meigle, Perthshire * Sir Winston Churchill — buried at St Martin's Church, Bladon, St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire * John Clare — buried at St Botolph's Church, Helpston, Cambridgeshire * Captain James Cornewall — buried at sea off Toulon; his monument was the first ever to be erected by Parliament at public expense * Captain Edward Cooke (Royal Navy officer), Edward Cooke — buried in Kolkata, Calcutta, India * Sir Noël Coward — buried on the grounds of his home, Firefly Estate, Jamaica * William Cowper — honoured with a stained glass window unveiled by George William Childs in 1875; buried in the St Thomas of Canterbury Chapel, at St Nicholas's Church, Dereham, East Dereham, Norfolk *

— body buried at Tyburn, Marylebone and head buried at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge * Diana, Princess of Wales — buried at Althorp, West Northamptonshire * Richard Dimbleby — ashes buried at St. Peter's Church, Linchmere, West Sussex * Paul Dirac — buried in Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida * Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield — buried at the St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden, Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire * Sir Francis Drake, buried at sea off Portobelo, Colón, Portobelo, Panama * Edward Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet — buried at St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire * Howard Florey, Howard Florey, Baron Florey — buried in Marston, Oxford, Marston, Oxfordshire * Sir John Franklin — presumably buried at sea near King William Island, Canada Memorial to Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Memorial to Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury — buried at St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield * Sir John Gielgud — ashes scattered in the garden of his home in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire * Adam Lindsay Gordon — buried in Australia * George Green (mathematician), George Green — buried in Nottingham * John Harrison — buried at St John-at-Hampstead, St. John's Church, Hampstead, London * Philip Larkin — buried at the Cottingham Municipal Cemetery, East Riding of Yorkshire * The Reverend Evelyn Levett Sutton, Dean and Chapter of Westminster, Prebendary of Westminster and Chaplain to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons (collapsed after reading the ninth commandment during Sunday services and died the next day) * C. S. Lewis, Clive Staples "C. S." Lewis — buried at Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxfordshire *

— buried at the Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire * David Lloyd George, David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor — buried beside the Afon Dwyfor, River Dwyfor in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts * George Herbert — honoured in a stained glass window unveiled by George William Childs in 1875 Monument to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey 01

Monument to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey 01

* Ramsay MacDonald, James Ramsay MacDonald — ashes buried at Holy Trinity Church, Spynie, Holy Trinity Church, Spynie, County of Moray, Moray, Scotland * John A. Macdonald — buried in Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario * Sir Robert Menzies — ashes buried in the "Prime Ministers Garden" at Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia * Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma — buried in Romsey Abbey, Hampshire * Pasquale Paoli — buried at Morosaglia, Corsica * Admiral Arthur Phillip — buried at Church of St Nicholas, Bathampton, Church of St Nicholas, Bathampton, Somerset * Franklin D. Roosevelt — buried at Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, Hyde Park, New York * William Shakespeare — buried at Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire * Dylan Thomas — buried at St. Martin's Church, Laugharne, Wales * Rear Admiral Thomas Totty — buried at Domus Dei, Portsmouth Garrison Chapel, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire * Lieutenant General William Villettes — buried in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica * The Reverend Charles Wesley — buried at St Marylebone Parish Church, London * The Reverend John Wesley — buried at Wesley's Chapel, London * Oscar Wilde — honoured in a stained glass window unveiled in 1995; buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris * Major General James Wolfe — buried at St Alfege Church, Greenwich, St Alfege Church, Greenwich, London

World War I poets

Sixteen Great War poets are commemorated on a slate stone unveiled on 11 November 1985, in the South Transept (Poets' Corner): WW1 Poets floorstone, Westminster Abbey

* Richard Aldington — buried in Sury, Ardennes (department), Ardennes, France * Laurence Binyon (author of "For the Fallen") — buried in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Berkshire * Edmund Blunden — buried in Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk * Rupert Brooke (author of "The Soldier (poem), The Soldier") — buried in Skyros, Greece * Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Wilfrid Gibson (one of the Georgian Poetry, Georgian poets) * Robert Graves (author of "I, Claudius" and the only poet of the sixteen, still alive at the time of the commemoration) — buried in Deià, Mallorca, Spain * Captain Julian Grenfell — buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France * Ivor Gurney — buried in St Matthew's Church, Twigworth, Gloucestershire * David Jones (artist-poet), David Jones — buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, London * Robert Nichols (poet), Robert Nichols — buried in St Mary's Church, Lawford, St Mary's Church, Lawford, Essex * Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen (author of "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth", and recipient of the Military Cross) — buried in the Ors Communal Cemetery, Ors, Northern France * Sir Herbert Read — buried in Stonegrave, North Yorkshire * Isaac Rosenberg — buried in the Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Saint-Laurent-Blangy, Pas-de-Calais, France * Captain Siegfried Sassoon — buried at St Andrew's Church, Mells, St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset, Mells, Somerset * Captain Charles Sorley — also commemorated at the Loos Memorial, in France * Corporal Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas — buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Agny, France

20th-century martyrs

Above the Great West Door, ten 20th-century Christian martyr, Christian martyrs from across the world are depicted in statues; from left to right: * Maximilian Kolbe * Manche Masemola * Janani Luwum * Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna * Martin Luther King Jr. * Óscar Romero * Dietrich Bonhoeffer * Esther John * Lucian Tapiedi * Wang Zhiming (pastor), Wang Zhiming

Formerly buried (removed)

Harold Harefoot, Harold I of England was originally buried in the abbey, but his body was exhumed, beheaded, and thrown into a fen, in June 1040. The body was later rescued and re-buried in the church of St Clement Danes, St. Clement Danes, Westminster. A number of Cromwellians were also buried in the Abbey, but later removed, on the orders of Charles II, and buried in a pit in St Margaret's, Westminster, St Margaret's churchyard, adjoining the abbey. A modern plaque on the exterior wall of the church records the names of those who were disinterred: * Oliver Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector * Admiral

* John Pym Marie Joséphine of Savoy, titular Queen of France and wife of Louis XVIII, Louis XVIII of France, died in exile in England in 1810 and was buried in the Lady Chapel. In 1811, under her husband's orders, her body was exhumed and removed to Cagliari Cathedral, Sardinia. In November 1869, at the request of the Dean of Westminster and with the approval of

, the philanthropist George Peabody was given a temporary burial in the abbey, but was later moved and buried in Salem, Massachusetts.

Proposed burials and memorials

* Thomas Carlyle burial: Upon Carlyle's death in 1881, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley made an offer of burial in Westminster Abbey. Carlyle had anticipated and rejected this, taking issue with the Church of England's burial service as well as the spectacle of the event, saying that "Westminster Abbey would require a general Prison, gaol delivery of rogues before any man could be at peace there". In accordance with his will, he was buried with his family in Hoddom, Hoddam, Scotland. *

burial: After Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England, the discovery of Richard III's remains in September 2012, a controversy arose as to whether or not he should be interred at Westminster Abbey or some other suitable location. His remains were ultimately buried in Leicester Cathedral. * Captain Sir Captain Tom Moore, Thomas "Tom" Moore memorial: Following his death in February 2021, TV presenter Carol Vorderman suggested Moore should have a memorial stone placed in Westminster Abbey, in recognition of his fundraising efforts in the run up to his Centenarian#United Kingdom and Commonwealth, 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, COVID-19 pandemic.

References

Notes

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