Individuals Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey

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placing canadian colours on gen. james wolfe s monument in westminster abbey emily warren in currie hall @ royal military college of canada



christopher anstey, buried @ st. swithin s church bath, somerset
dame peggy ashcroft, cremated @ golders green crematorium, london
wh auden, buried in kirchstetten.
jane austen, buried in winchester cathedral, hampshire
robert, lord baden-powell, buried in nyeri, kenya, , wife lady olave baden-powell, ashes buried in nyeri, kenya.
stanley baldwin, cremated @ golders green crematorium , ashes buried in worcester cathedral, worcestershire
admiral robert blake (on stone memorial in south choir aisle), buried in abbey reburied in st margaret s, westminster in 1661.
william booth, buried @ stoke newington, london borough of hackney
benjamin britten, baron britten of aldeburgh, buried @ parish church of aldeburgh
charlotte brontë, emily jane brontë, anne brontë; charlotte , emily buried @ haworth, while anne buried @ scarborough
lord byron, buried @ hucknall, nottinghamshire
sir winston churchill, buried @ bladon, oxfordshire
john clare, buried in st botolph s churchyard, helpston, cambridgeshire
james cornewall, buried @ sea off toulon. monument in abbey first ever erected parliament @ public expense.
edward cooke, buried in calcutta
noël coward, buried on grounds of home firefly estate in jamaica
william cowper (in stained glass window unveiled george w. childs in 1875), buried in east dereham, norfolk
diana, princess of wales, buried @ althorp, northamptonshire
richard dimbleby, buried in st peter s churchyard, lynchmere, west sussex
paul dirac, buried in tallahassee, florida
benjamin disraeli, 1st earl of beaconsfield, buried @ hughenden manor, buckinghamshire
sir francis drake, buried @ sea off portobelo, panama
sir edward elgar, buried in st wulftan s rc church in little malvern, worcestershire
sir john franklin, presumably buried @ sea near king william island, canada
adam lindsay gordon, buried in australia
george green, mathematician, buried in native nottinghamshire.
john harrison, buried in st john s church in hampstead, north london
philip larkin, buried in cottingham municipal cemetery near hull
rev evelyn levett sutton, prebendary of westminster , chaplain house of commons collapsed after reading ninth commandment during sunday services , died next day (in monument)
c.s. lewis, buried in churchyard of holy trinity church, headington, oxford
jenny lind, buried @ great malvern, worcestershire
henry wadsworth longfellow, buried @ cambridge, massachusetts
george herbert (in stained glass window unveiled george w. childs in 1875)
james ramsay macdonald, buried @ spynie, near lossiemouth, grampian
sir robert menzies, cremated in australia
louis mountbatten, 1st earl mountbatten of burma, buried in romsey abbey.
pasquale paoli, buried @ morosaglia, corsica
william shakespeare, buried @ stratford-upon-avon, warwickshire
dylan thomas (in plaque unveiled in 1982), buried @ laugharne
thomas totty, buried @ portsmouth garrison chapel, portsmouth, hampshire
william villettes, buried in jamaica.
charles wesley, buried @ old marylebone, london
john wesley, buried @ city road chapel, london
oscar wilde (in stained glass window unveiled in 1995), buried in père lachaise cemetery, paris
gen. james wolfe, buried @ st alfege church, greenwich, south-east london
sir adrian boult, body willed science




^ robert & olave baden-powell – westminster abbey
^ coutu, joan (2006). persuasion , propaganda monuments , eighteenth-century british empire. montréal: mcgill-queen s university press. p. 160. isbn 9780773576643. 
^ http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/menzies/after-office.aspx%7c naa - former prime ministers of australia, menzies after office - retrieved 2016-02-06
^ villettes, william ann, oxford dictionary of national biography, robert holden , desmond gregory, (subscription required), retrieved 9 september 2017






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