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• A. E. Housman

  Poet

  Alfred Edward Housman, poet, has a memorial panel in the window above Chaucer's monument in Poets' Corner. This was unveiled on 17th September 1996.

  inscription reads: 1859 A.E.Housman 1936 He was born on 26th March 1859 near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, a son of Edward and his wife Sarah Jane (Williams).

• John Parsons

  Musician and Composer

  John Parsons, organist and composer, is buried in the cloisters. He was the Abbey's Master of Choristers from 1613-1623, and Organist from 1621.

  His wife was Jane and his children were William, Dorothy and Thomazine.

• Hatton Family

  Statesman

  The large monument to Sir Christopher Hatton is now in the triforium, having being moved from the lower Islip chapel. He and his wife Alice are both buried just outside this area .

  Remembrancer of the Exchequer, by whom he had twelve children, of whom six survive: Christopher, John, Francis, William, Elizabeth and Jane.

• Richard Cobden

  Statesman

  Cobden, statesman and champion of free trade, has a memorial in the west aisle of the north transept. Dickens signed the petition for erecting it.

  In 1840 he married Catherine Williams and had five surviving children including Julia Anne Cobden-Sanderson, a suffragette, and Emma Jane Cobden Unwin.

• Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth

  Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth was buried in a vault in St John the Baptist's chapel in Westminster Abbey on 22nd June 1665.

  ...John, Lord Fitzharding and Sir William Berkeley and his sisters Elizabeth and Jane are also buried in the Abbey (see Lord Fitzharding's entry for more

• Thomas Finny

  Thomas Finny, an assistant carpenter, was buried in the Dark Cloister area, near the Undercroft door. He worked for the Abbey from at least 1753.

  He was born in 1689, a son of John Finny and Jane (Baker), and married Elizabeth Chubb who is buried with him.

• Colen Campbell

  Architect and Lawyer

  Colen Campbell, architect, was buried in the south cloister on 13th September 1729 but he never seems to have had an inscribed gravestone.

  His liason with Jane Bubb did not apparently produce any children.

• James Johnston

  Soldier

  General James Johnston is buried in the centre part of the nave. Only a small stone now marks his grave, near that of Thomas Telford.

  His son Henry's wife Jane, and his daughter Caroline, wife of Evelyn Anderson, were mentioned in his will, as was his sister Margaret and children of his sister...

• John and Edward Willis

  Carpenter

  In the west cloister of Westminster Abbey is the grave of John Willis, Abbey carpenter, his son Edward and niece Ann.

  His wife Jane (Hayward) was buried with him on 22nd December 1744 aged 48.

• Henry Francis Cary

  Writer

  Henry Francis Cary, translator of Dante's Divina Commedia into English is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, not far from Shakespeare's memorial.

  Following his father's wish he was ordained in 1796 and married Jane Ormsby.

• Susannah Davidson

  In the chapel of St Andrew is part of a memorial to Susannah Davidson. The relief from it can now be seen in the triforium galleries.

  The inscription reads: Sacred to the memory of Susannah Jane Davidson, only daughter of William Davidson, of Amsterdam, merchant.

• Sir Humphrey May

  Politician

  Sir Humphrey May, politician, was buried "on the north side of the Chapel of Kings" (ie.the north ambulatory) in Westminster Abbey on 11th June 1630.

  His first wife was Jane, daughter of Sir William Uvedale and they had one son.

• Sir Henry Sumner Maine

  Lawyer

  Sir Henry Sumner Maine K.C.S.I. has a black and white marble memorial on the wall of the west aisle of the north transept.

  In 1847 he married Jane Main.

• Joseph Wilcocks

  Dean and Priest/Minister

  Joseph Wilcocks, Dean of Westminster, was buried in a specially built vault in what is now St George's chapel, Westminster Abbey.

  a while he served as a chaplain in Lisbon, Portugal and he married Jane Milner, daughter of John Milner, the British Consul in that city, and his wife Elizabeth...

• Humphrey and Thomas Persehouse

  Thomas Persehouse (or Persehowse) and his son Humphrey were buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey. They have no markers.

  Another son Thomas became a clergyman and their daughters were Anne, Jane and Margaret, one of whom married twice without her father's consent.

• Roger and Agneta Cooper

  Roger and Agneta Cooper, who served Queen Anne, are buried in the east cloister but the inscription has worn away.

  Cooper buried on 6th January 1701, and Dorothy buried on 30th April 1708, seamstress and laundress to the family of Prince George of Denmark from 1692, were...

• Nicholas Clagett

  Priest/Minister

  Nicholas Clagett, Bishop of Exeter, was buried at St Margaret's Westminster in 1746 but he has no gravestone or memorial.

  His estate was divided between his unmarried sisters Jane and Margaret and his brother Samuel.

• John Shepherd

  Musician and Composer

  John Shepherd, singer and composer, died in 1558 and was buried at St Margaret's Westminster. He has no marker or memorial.

  ...buried either in Westminster Abbey or beside his former wife at St Margaret's (possibly Jane who was buried there on 9th April 1555) and to have an inscription...

• Marian Clough

  Marian Clough kept a boarding house for Westminster School and is buried in the west cloister of the Abbey.

  or anything else concerning me." She did leave money to Sarah's children - Jane, Marian, John, Thomas, Richard, William, Bright and Robert.

• Sir Andrew Dudley

  Politician, Sailor and Soldier

  Sir Andrew Dudley, politician and brother of John, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was buried in St Margaret's Westminster but he has no marker.

  With his brother John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, he became involved in the plot to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne.