Find out about some of the 3,300 people buried and others commemorated at Westminster Abbey, many of them among the most significant in the nation's history.

Edward was a son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York and his wife Cicely, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He was born at Rouen in France on 28th April 1442. On 4th March 1461 King Henry ...

In the east cloister of Westminster Abbey is a memorial tablet to Bonnell Thornton, author, editor of The Connoisseur and friend of Dr Johnson. This includes a profile relief portrait, with books and ...

Edward was born in the Palace of Westminster on 17th June 1239, the eldest child of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence, and was baptised in the Abbey. His nickname was "Longshanks", being 6 feet 2 ...

Henry Ireton, Parliamentary official and son in law of Oliver Cromwell, was buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey in 1652. However after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne the ...

The grave of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, the famous admiral, is in the central part of the nave of Westminster Abbey. The inscription, written by Sir Lyon Playfair, reads: HERE RESTS IN ...

Joan was a daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile and was born at Acre in the spring of 1272. You are surrounded by history at the Abbey, not like a museum where it’s just displayed, ...

James Wyatt, architect, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, not far from the graves of Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers. He was Surveyor of the Fabric at the Abbey from 1776 to ...

George Frederic Handel, the famous composer, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, with a monument on the wall above. He was born at Halle in Saxony in 1685, son of Georg and his ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...

On 24th November 1957 a larger than life size bronze bust to the poet, painter and engraver William Blake was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It is fixed to a pillar and is by the ...

The memorial to Dr Richard Mead (1673-1754), with a portrait bust by Peter Scheemakers, is to be found on the north side of the nave of Westminster Abbey, but he is actually buried in the Temple ...