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• Former prime ministers attend funeral of Jack Dromey MP

  Monday, 31st January 2022

  Former prime ministers attend funeral of Jack Dromey MP: The funeral of the Jack Dromey MP was held at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, on Monday 31st January. The Labour MP for.

• John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery

  Statesman

  John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery was buried in the chapel of St John the Baptist in Westminster Abbey on 28th January 1713.

• William Burnaby

  Playwright

  In the centre part of the south transept is a gravestone to William Burnaby, dramatist. The Reform'd Wife was staged at Drury Lane in 1700.

• John Rankin Rathbone

  Politician and Airman

  In St Margaret's is a small 15th century carved figure of St Margaret of Antioch and the dragon given in memory of John Rankin Rathbone.

• Sir Frank Lockwood

  Politician and Lawyer

  In the south aisle of St Margaret's church Westminster is a memorial brass to Sir Frank Lockwood, lawyer and politician. This was erected in 1899.

• Sir Dingle Foot

  Politician and Lawyer

  On the south wall of St Margaret's church is a plaque to politician Sir Dingle Foot. His ashes were buried in the church in 1981.

• Sir Joseph Williamson

  Politician, Lawyer and diplomat

  Sir Joseph Williamson was buried on 14th October 1701 in the vault of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox in Henry VII's chapel.

• Andrew Bonar Law

  Statesman

  The ashes of statesman and Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law are buried in the nave. He was a Canadian by birth and Scots by descent.

• Henry Newport, Earl of Bradford

  Politician

  Henry Newport, Earl of Bradford, Baron Newport of High Ercall, Lord Lieutenant and Custos of Shropshire was buried in the Duke of Ormond's vault.

• Wardour family

  Anna Sophia Wardour and two sons are buried in the centre part of the nave. Their graves are now marked by small lozenge stones.

• Thomas, Lord Wentworth

  Thomas. 1st Lord Wentworth, is buried in the chapel of St John the Evangelist. He seems never to have had a monument or gravestone.

• Sir William Payne-Galwey

  Soldier

  Sir William Payne-Galwey is buried in a vault in St Margaret's church. He has no inscribed gravestone and unfortunately his wall tablet is now obscured.

• Humphrey Mackworth

  Soldier

  Humphrey Mackworth, a colonel in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, was buried in a vault in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey but later exhumed.

• Sir Christopher Perkins

  Priest/Minister and Diplomat

  Priest and diplomat Sir Christopher Perkins was buried in the north ambulatory in September 1622 but he seems never to have had an inscribed gravestone.

• Edward and George Morris

  Writer, Politician, Physician, Doctor and Lawyer

  Edward Morris, lawyer and Member of Parliament, and his brother George Paulet Morris, physician, are buried in St Margaret's. Their memorial tablet is now invisible.

• Major General and Mary Lowther

  Soldier

  Major General Lowther and his mother Mary are buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey but have no marker.

• Richard James

  Writer, Poet and Priest/Minister

  The Reverend Richard James, antiquary, historian, linguist and poet, was buried in St Margaret's Church Westminster on 8th December 1638 but he has no marker or memorial.

• Ellis Wynn

  Ellis Wynn, or Wynne, was buried in the south ambulatory of Westminster Abbey on 29th September 1623 but he has no monument or marker.

• Lord Erroll of Hale

  Politician and Engineer

  In the west window of the Lady Chapel is the coat of arms of Lord Erroll of Hale (lower row of panels), engineer.

• Abbey pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

  Thursday, 5th December 2013

  The Dean and Chapter of Westminster has sent a message of condolence to the High Commissioner for South Africa on the death of the country’s former President Nelson Mandela.

  Nelson Mandela