John Gregory, Westminster Abbey carpenter, was buried in the south cloister of the Abbey on 24th February 1704 aged 47. His wife was Elizabeth Gray and they married in 1687. In 1690 he took a lease ...

George Savile, Marquess of Halifax is buried in the north aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey in the vault first used by General George Monck. Near his grave is a large monument of white, ...

Thomas Babington (Macaulay), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian and poet, was buried at the foot of Joseph Addison's statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey on 9 January 1860. The service was ...

Sir George Villiers and his wife Mary Countess of Buckingham have a white marble monument with effigies in the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey. Mary died on 19th April 1632 and was buried a ...

William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Richard Hakluyt, called 'the father of modern geographers', was buried in Westminster Abbey on 26th November 1616, but the place of his burial was not noted in the register. (It has been suggested his ...

At the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. The Admiral is shown in Roman armour reclining on a sarcophagus and at his feet are putto weeping beside an ...

In St Michael's chapel, off the north transept of Westminster Abbey, is a remarkable monument commemorating Lady Elizabeth Nightingale and her husband. She was born in 1704, the eldest of three ...

This great Victorian philanthropist was born in Piccadilly, London on 21st April 1814, the youngest of six children of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), politician, who was educated at Westminster ...

In Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey is a monument of alabaster and black marble to poet Michael Drayton (or Draiton). The monument is by sculptor Edward Marshall and was erected by the Countess of ...

A small bronze statuette (or weeper) of Joan, a daughter of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, can be seen on the side of her father's tomb in Westminster Abbey. This can be viewed from the south ...

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was buried, at the expense of Elizabeth I, in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, in the same grave as her son Charles. She was born on ...