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• Aldam and John Frame

  Gardener

  Aldam and John Frame (Freame) held the post of gardener at Westminster Abbey and are buried in the south cloister.

• Pierson Lloyd

  Priest/Minister

  The Revd. Pierson Lloyd was a master at Westminster School and is buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

• Henry Brooker

  Henry Brooker, Library keeper and Receiver General of Westminster Abbey, was buried in the east cloister but no marker remains.

• Elizabeth and John Gregory

  Carpenter

  John Gregory worked as the Abbey carpenter and on his death his widow Elizabeth took over the running of the business.

• Thomas Donkley

  Thomas Donkley, closet keeper to Charles II, was buried in the north cloister with his wife and many children. His grave is not marked.

• Henry Roper

  Musician

  On the wall of the Little Cloister is a memorial to Henry Quittenton Roper, chorister of Westminster Abbey May 1879-November 1884.

• Andrew Bisset

  Soldier

  Lt. General Andrew Bisset (or Bissett) was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey on 27th August 1742 aged 82.

• Sir William Elphinstone

  Lawyer

  Sir William Elphinstone (Elphinstoun or Elveston) was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey on 10th December 1645 but his grave is not marked.

• Francis Hughes

  Musician

  Francis Hughes, well known opera singer of his day, was buried on 21st March 1744 in the west cloister but has no marker.

• Stephen Baber

  Stephen Baber was buried in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey on 27th March 1679 but his gravestone is no longer readable.

• Charles Walter Congreve

  Priest/Minister

  In the south cloister is the grave of Charles Walter Congreve, archdeacon of Armagh. He was a son of John Congreve of Congreve in Staffordshire.

• George Slaughter

  Soldier

  Captain George Slaughter was buried in the north cloister. His gravestone is no longer readable but the inscription was recorded in a book.

• Michael Hare

  In the west cloister is the grave of Michael and Mary Hare. He lived in Millbank street Westminster. Mary was a child of James Merest.

• Enoch Hawkins

  Musician

  Enoch Hawkins, the "finest alto singer of his day", was buried in the west cloister. The original memorial was replaced by the present marble tablet.

• George Ebenezer Williams

  Musician

  George Ebenezer Williams was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1814-1819. He was buried in the south cloister in April 1819.

• Thomas Smith

  In the Little Cloister is a quaint marble wall tablet to Thomas Smith, who was educated at Westminster School and who died of smallpox.

• Andrew Gammell

  Soldier

  Lieutenant General Andrew Gammell was buried in the south cloister on 26th October 1815, aged 50. He seems never to have had an inscribed gravestone.

• Colonial Territories Memorial

  In south cloister is a tablet in memory of those who served in the Colonial Territories. At the top is the Royal achievement of arms.

• Ambrose Fisher

  Writer and Priest/Minister

  Fisher, known as the blind scholar and author of A Defence of the Liturgy of the Church of England, is buried in the east cloister.

• Sudan memorial

  In the north cloister of Westminster Abbey is a memorial tablet to British workers in the Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.