Memorials Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey

1 memorials

1.1 individuals
1.2 world war poets
1.3 20th century martyrs

memorials

the following commemorated in abbey and/or had memorial service in abbey, buried elsewhere:

individuals

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

world war poets

sixteen great war poets commemorated on slate stone unveiled 11 november 1985, in south transept (poets corner):

richard aldington, buried in france
laurence binyon, author of fallen, buried in reading, berkshire
edmund blunden, buried in long melford, suffolk
rupert brooke, author of soldier, buried in skyros, greece
wilfrid gibson
robert graves, author of i, claudius , poet of sixteen still living @ time of commemoration, buried in deià, majorca, spain
julian grenfell, buried in boulogne-sur-mer, france
ivor gurney, buried in twigworth, gloucestershire
david jones, buried in crofton park, lewisham
robert nichols
wilfred owen, author of dulce et decorum est , anthem doomed youth, buried in ors, france
herbert read, buried in stonegrave, north yorkshire
isaac rosenberg, buried in pas de calais, france
siegfried sassoon, buried in mells, somerset
charles sorley, commemorated @ loos memorial
edward thomas, buried in agny military cemetery, france

20th century martyrs

the 20th-century martyrs

above great west door, ten 20th-century christian martyrs across world depicted in statues; left right:

st maximilian kolbe (d.1941)
manche masemola (d.1928)
janani luwum (d.1977)
grand duchess st elizabeth of russia (d.1918)
martin luther king, jr (d.1968)
Óscar romero (d.1980)
dietrich bonhoeffer (d.1945)
esther john (d.1960)
lucian tapiedi (d.1942)
wang zhiming (d.1973)




^ robert & olave baden-powell – westminster abbey
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^ 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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