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• Abbey celebrates 300th anniversary of Westminster Hospital

  A service of thanksgiving to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Westminster Hospital was held at Westminster Abbey at Noon on Thursday 23rd May 2019.

  ...Chief Operating Officer; Sophia Cavill, Acute Medical Registrar; the Reverend Jane Sinclair, Canon in Residence; the Reverend Bernard Hughes, former Chaplain at...

• James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn & Family

  Soldier

  Colonel James Hamilton, and the 6th and 7th Earls of Abercorn are buried in the Abbey.

  She was a daughter of Sir Robert Reading and his wife Jane, Countess of Mountrath (who was buried in the Abbey in 1684).

• Nicholas Dering

  On the south wall of St Margaret's church Westminster is a cartouche to Nicholas Dering (or Dearing). The inscription is in Latin and English.

  Jane the eldest was wife to James Tooth in the county of Surrey, Gent.

• Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

  Physician and Engineer

  Unfortunately the memorial window in St Margaret's Westminster to Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, surgeon and engineer, was destroyed by blast during the 1939-1945 war.

  Retiring to Cornwall he also made various agricultural experiments and married his second wife Jane (Betty) and they had a daughter Elizabeth Jane.

• Stephen Hawking

  Physicist, Scientist and Writer

  The ashes of eminent physicist Professor Stephen Hawking were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey near Newton.

  His first wife Jane and two of his children, Tim and Lucy, laid flowers.

• Sir Christopher Wren

  Architect

  Sir Christopher Wren was Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey but he is buried at St Paul's Cathedral.

  Jane Fitzwilliam.

• Willes family

  Priest/Minister and Codebreaker

  Dr Edward Willes, bishop of Bath and Wells, was buried in the north ambulatory, together with his wife Jane and sons Edward and Sir Francis.

  ...Willes, bishop of Bath and Wells, was buried in the north ambulatory of Westminster Abbey, together with his wife Jane and sons Edward and Sir Francis and his

• Sir John Franklin

  Explorer

  The famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin has a memorial in St John the Evangelist's chapel in Westminster Abbey.

  But she died a few years later and his second wife, Jane Griffin, accompanied her husband on his travels in Australasia.

• Thomas Parr

  Thomas Parr, from Shropshire, lived for 152 years and 9 months through the reigns of ten monarchs and was buried in Westminster Abbey by order of King Charles I.

  Thomas married his first wife Jane Taylor when he was about 80 years old and they had a son and daughter, both of whom died in infancy.

• Randolph & Penelope Egerton & family

  Soldier

  Major General Randolph Egerton, his two wives, two sons and a daughter are buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey.

  He had daughters Elizabeth, Christiana and Jane by Penelope.

• Sir Francis & Anne Cottington

  Diplomat

  Francis, Baron Cottington of Hanworth, and his wife Anne, have monuments in the chapel of St Paul. He was twice ambassador to Spain.

  [Knight] and of Jane his wife, daughter of Sir Tho: Palmer of Wingham in Kent, Knt.

• Sir Thomas Crosse & family

  Politician and Philanthropist

  In the central aisle of St Margaret's church is a gravestone to members of the Crosse family, buried in the vault below. There are two memorials also.

  ...place of Thomas, the father and Mary the mother, Thomas the eldest son and Jane the wife, Henry the brother and Diana the sister of the above mentioned Sr...

• Sir Lumley Robinson

  Sir Lumley Robinson was buried in the nave in 1684. His monument which stood near the grave has been reduced in size and moved.

  ...and heir of Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet of Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk and his wife Jane, daughter of Lumley Dew and succeeded to the title in

• Peter Birch

  Priest/Minister

  Peter Birch, clergyman, and his wife Martha are buried in the south transept. Martha has a white marble Baroque wall tablet near Chaucer's tomb.

  His second wife was Jane Lane.

• Sir Henry Blackwood

  Sailor

  On the wall of the west aisle of the north transept is a marble tablet in memory of Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry Blackwood.

  His first wife was Jane Mary Crosbie, his second was Eliza Waghorn, by whom he had a son, and his third wife was Harriet Gore, by whom he had several children.

• William & Henry Bentinck

  Several members of the Bentinck family are buried in the Ormond vault at the eastern end of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.

  His second was Jane Temple, widow of Sir John Berkeley (neither are buried in the Abbey) William was buried on 3rd December 1709.

• James Bartleman

  Musician

  James Bartleman, singer, is buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey and there is a marble tablet to his memory on the wall there.

  He had a brother George, and sisters Jane, Selena Ann, Jemima (Godwin) and Mary (Baynton).

• William Barnard

  Priest/Minister

  Dr William Barnard, Bishop of Derry, was buried in the Islip chapel in Westminster Abbey. His white marble memorial tablet is now in the triforium.

  Carlow in 1758 and secondly Jane Ross-Lewin.

• George Preston

  Priest/Minister

  In the section of the cloister of Westminster Abbey called the Dark Cloister is a wall memorial to the Reverend George Preston.

  Their son Edward was baptised in the Abbey on 2nd February 1826 and daughter Jane Emma, aged 2, was buried on 23rd February 1830.

• Sir Thomas Hesketh

  Politician

  In the north choir aisle is a monument with a full length coloured effigy of Sir Thomas Heskett or Hesketh, reclining on his left elbow.

  Thomas was the second son of Gabriel Hesketh of Aughton in the county of Lancashire, and Jane, daughter of Sir Henry Halsall.