Westminster Abbey



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The Official Westminster Abbey Site


T
he Abbey's formal title is The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster.
The popular title "Westminster Abbey" continues to be used, even though there have been no monks there since the l6th century.

Famous People Buried In The Abbey

Poets/writers: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Dr Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield.

Scientists/engineers: Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Telford, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Ernest Rutherford, Sir J.J.Thomson

Musicians: George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell, John Blow, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Actors: David Garrick, Sir Henry Irving, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Laurence Olivier

Architects: Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, Sir Charles Barry, Sir George Gilbert Scott,

George Edmund Street, Sir Herbert Baker

Politicians: William Pitt Earl of Chatham, William Pitt the Younger, Charles James Fox, William Ewart Gladstone, Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee

Military/naval/RAF: Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Field Marshal George Wade, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Lord Trenchard, Lord Dowding

Others : David Livingstone, Sir Rowland Hill, William Wilberforce, Baroness Burdett Coutts

 

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