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Robert & Olave Baden-Powell
In the nave, against the screen of St George’s chapel, is a memorial stone to Lord and Lady Baden-Powell. Both are buried in Kenya.
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Sir John Franklin
Explorer
The famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin has a memorial in St John the Evangelist's chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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Henry and Millicent Fawcett
Philanthropist and Statesman
In the chapel of St George, near the west door, is a joint memorial to Henry Fawcett, politician, and his wife Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
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Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2016
Sunday, 10th July 2016
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.
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Sermon at the Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero
Saturday, 17th November 2018
We celebrate today the canonisation of St Oscar Romero, Bishop and Martyr, that took place in Rome on 14th October 2018.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2015
Sunday, 26th April 2015
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2015: Laying down one’s life Picture the scene: a snowy afternoon in the middle of an American winter in a typical.
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Charles Buller
Politician
On the wall of the west aisle of the north transept is a memorial with a life size marble bust to politician Charles Buller.
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Michael Mayne
Writer, Dean and Priest/Minister
The ashes of Michael Clement Otway Mayne K.C.V.O, Dean of Westminster, are buried in the nave near the graves of his predecessors in office.
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Writer and Novelist
On 21st June 1980 a memorial stone for George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist, was unveiled in Poets' Corner. The sculptor was John Skelton.
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John Keble
Writer, Poet and Priest/Minister
On a pillar on the west wall of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a white marble bust to poet and clergyman John Keble.
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Edward and Judith Cary
Priest/Minister
The Reverend Edward Cary, sub-dean of Exeter, and his daughter Judith are buried in St Margaret's Westminster and she has a memorial tablet.
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Sermon at Evensong on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity
Sunday, 21st October 2018
Sermon at Evensong on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity: Possession with purpose I was two years old when my brother was born. Compared with me, Andrew was a good, rather quiet baby.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity 2018
Sunday, 21st October 2018
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity: Possession with purpose I was two years old when my brother was born. Compared with me, Andrew was a good, rather.
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The rough trade of politics
On 18th October 2021, Westminster Abbey welcomed Parliamentarians to St Margaret’s Church as we mourned the tragic death of Sir David Amess MP.
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William Shakespeare
Playwright
Shakespeare was buried at Stratford upon Avon in 1616 and it was not until 1741 that a statue to him was erected in Poets' Corner.
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Eric Symes Abbott
Dean and Priest/Minister
The ashes of former Dean of Westminster Eric Symes Abbott are buried in the nave near the altar there, with a portland stone tablet.
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Jeremiah Horrocks
Astronomer
By the west door in the nave is a memorial to astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks. The inscription was set into a plain piece of white marble within the Conduitt monument.
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James Wolfe
Soldier
James Wolfe, famous soldier, is buried at Greenwich but he has a large memorial in Westminster Abbey.
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Edmond Halley
Astronomer
In the south cloister is a memorial to astronomer Edmond Halley. It takes the form of a stylised comet, of slate, the tail being gilded.
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Sir William Temple & Family
Writer, Politician and Statesman
In the nave south aisle is a marble memorial to statesman and author Sir William Temple, his wife Dorothy, daughter Diana and sister Martha Giffard.