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• John Seward

  John Seward was buried in the south ambulatory on 6th April 1624 but he has no marker. He was of Stoke under Hamdon in Somerset.

• Adrian Drift

  Adrian Drift was buried near the grave of poet Matthew Prior in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. But he has no monument or gravestone.

• Coastal Command member visits Abbey memorial

  Saturday, 11th August 2007

  Peter Ilbery was just 20 when he joined 455 Squadron of the RAF’s Coastal Command in 1945. Flying Hampdens and later Beaufighters, he and his Australian colleagues embarked on nightly operations against German U-boats during World War Two.

  RAF Coastal Command

• Abbey Marks Shakespeare Anniversary

  Monday, 8th August 2016

  Westminster Abbey marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a wreath laying during Matins on Sunday 7th August 2016.

  William Shakespeare Wreathlaying

• Arthur Phillip

  Sailor

  A memorial stone to Admiral Arthur Phillip, founder of New South Wales in Australia, can be seen in the centre part of the nave.

• Poets' Corner Honour for Elizabeth Gaskell

  Friday, 24th September 2010

  A memorial window panel in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner to the Victorian novelist and biographer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 – 1865) was dedicated on Saturday 25th September 2010.

  Elizabeth Gaskell Poets' Corner Memorial dedication

• Adrian Hope

  Soldier

  In the west aisle of the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a stone to Brigadier the Honorable Adrian Hope, who was killed in India.

• Sir Arthur Harris

  Airman

  Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris is remembered in the RAF chapel. His name is painted below the Battle of Britain memorial window.

• Members of the Royal Family celebrate Commonwealth Day at the Abbey

  Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales attended the annual Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey on Monday 11th March.

• The King celebrates Commonwealth Day at the Abbey

  Their Majesties The King and The Queen attended the annual Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey on Monday 10th March.

• An Observance for Commonwealth Day 2008

  Monday, 10th March 2008

  The Queen attended the annual Commonwealth Observance accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, together with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, who currently chairs the Commonwealth Heads of Government, and Mrs Museveni.

  Commonwealth Service Special Service

• Florence Nightingale honoured at Abbey

  Wednesday, 12th May 2010

  A Service to Celebrate the Life of Florence Nightingale in the centennial year of her death was held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 12th May 2010.

  Florence Nightingale Archbishop Desmond Tutu

• St Margaret's marks Desert Rats homecoming

  Tuesday, 17th June 2014

  A Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for the 7th Armoured Brigade deployed in Operation Herrick 19 in Afghanistan was held at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 17th June at 11.00 am.

  7th Armoured Brigade

• New Canon Steward Appointed

  Wednesday, 25th May 2016

  The Reverend Canon Anthony Ball has been appointed by the Crown to the Canonry of Westminster vacant through the appointment of the Venerable Andrew Tremlett as Dean of Durham.

  Canon Anthony Ball

• A Celebration for Commonwealth Day to be shown on BBC One

  Monday, 22nd February 2021

  A special programme to be broadcast on BBC One March will replace this year's Commonwealth Day service.

  Commonwealth Day

• Writing in good faith: a pilgrimage in fiction, film and thought

  Thursday, 22nd May 2025

  Writer and broadcaster Rhidian Brook gives the annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture.

  Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

• Robert Cannon

  Priest/Minister

  A memorial tablet to Robert Cannon, Dean of Lincoln, is in the nave of Westminster Abbey but his grave is in the south transept.

• Michael and John Evans

  Priest/Minister

  The Reverend Michael Evans was a Canon and Sub Dean of Westminster from 1702-1732 and was buried in the nave in August 1732.

• Richard Harweden

  Abbot and Priest

  Richard Harweden was Abbot of Westminster from 1420-1440 and died in mid 1441. He has no monument.

• Mary Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton

  On 31st January 1823 Mary, Viscountess Harberton of Connaught Place, Edgware, was buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey, aged 63.