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• Dr William Turner

  Musician and Composer

  Dr William Turner, singer and composer, was buried with his wife in the west cloister. For the coronation of James II he wrote two anthems.

• 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.

• William Britten (or Bretton)

  Priest

  William Britten (or Bretton) was a Canon of Westminster and was buried in 1552. No marker remains for him.

• William & John Herschel

  Scientist, Musician, Mathematician and Astronomer

  A memorial stone to William Herschel, astronomer and musician, was unveiled in the nave in 1954. The grave of his son Sir John is nearby.

• William Thompson Elliott

  Priest/Minister

  The Reverend William Thompson Elliott was a Canon of Westminster from 1938-1940 and his ashes are buried in the vault in the lower Islip chapel.

• 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.

• Sir William Dodson

  Sir William Dodson was buried in the south aisle of the nave. He was a woollen draper of St Paul's churchyard and Alderman of London.

• Michael William Balfe

  Musician and Composer

  In the north choir aisle is a memorial to composer Michael William Balfe. This consists of an oval medallion with a profile bust.

• William Whitfield Dakins

  Priest/Minister

  William Whitfield Dakins, minor canon of Westminster, is buried in the south cloister. The inscription was re-cut in 1950 but is now rather worn.

• William Edward Forster

  Politician

  On the wall of the north choir aisle is a white marble tablet, with a portrait relief, in memory of politician William Edward Forster.

• William Wilberforce & family

  Priest/Minister, Statesman and Abolitionist

  William Wilberforce, MP, who took up the cause for the abolition of slavery was buried in the north transept. Samuel was Dean of Westminster and Basil was Archdeacon.

• William and Catherine Gladstone

  Statesman

  In 1903 a statue to William Gladstone, Prime Minister, was unveiled. A gravestone, to William and his wife Catherine, was put in after Catherine’s death.

• William and Mary Bulmer

  William and Mary Bulmer and their son William are buried in the west cloister but their memorials perished long ago and the graves are unmarked.

• William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

  Scientist, Mathematician, Physicist and Engineer

  William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born in Belfast.

• Sir William Chambers

  Architect

  Sir William Chambers, architect, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, beside fellow architects Robert Adam and James Wyatt.

• William Sterndale Bennett

  Composer and Musician

  Composer Sir William Sterndale Bennett is buried in the north choir aisle, not far from the graves of Henry Purcell and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

• Joshua and William Price

  Artist

  Glass painters Joshua and his son William Price worked on two stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey.

• William Makepeace Thackeray

  Writer

  On a pillar in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a white marble bust, with a brown marble base, to novelist and essayist William Makepeace Thackeray.

• William and James Robertson

  Soldier

  Colonel William Robertson and James Robertson are buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey with members of their family.

• William of Windsor & Blanche

  Two children of Edward III, William of Windsor and Blanche of the Tower, have a small altar tomb in the chapel of St Edmund.