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http://www.westminster-abbey.org/

Location:
London, England

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert Adam
Architect
3-Jul-1728 3-Mar-1792 Scottish Neoclassical architect
Joseph Addison
Author
1-May-1672 17-Jun-1719 The Spectator
Edmund Allenby
Military
23-Apr-1861 14-May-1936 Defeated the Turks in WWI
Queen Anne
Royalty
6-Feb-1665 1-Aug-1714 Queen of England, 1702-14
Clement Attlee
Head of State
3-Jan-1883 8-Oct-1967 UK Prime Minister, 1945-51
Francis Beaumont
Playwright
1584 6-Mar-1616 Collaborator with John Fletcher
Aphra Behn
Playwright
10-Jul-1640 16-Apr-1689 Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave
Ernest Bevin
Politician
9-Mar-1881 14-Apr-1951 UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51
John Blow
Composer
23-Feb-1649 1-Oct-1708 Venus and Adonis
Anne Bracegirdle
Actor
1663 1748 Actress in Congreve's plays
Robert Browning
Poet
7-May-1812 12-Dec-1889 Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Novelist
25-May-1803 18-Jan-1873 The Last Days of Pompeii
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
Philanthropist
21-Apr-1814 30-Dec-1906 Victorian philanthropist
William Camden
Scholar
2-May-1551 9-Nov-1623 Britannia
Colin Campbell
Military
20-Oct-1792 24-Aug-1863 Commander-in-chief of India
George Canning
Politician
11-Apr-1770 8-Aug-1827 Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
King Charles II
Royalty
29-May-1630 6-Feb-1685 King of England 1660-85
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author
c. 1343 25-Oct-1400 Canterbury Tales
Lord Clarendon
Government
18-Feb-1609 9-Dec-1674 The Clarendon Code
Muzio Clementi
Composer
24-Jan-1752 10-Mar-1832 Gradus ad Parnassum
Thomas Cochrane
Military
14-Dec-1775 31-Oct-1860 Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen
William Congreve
Playwright
24-Jan-1670 19-Jan-1729 The Way of the World
George Nathaniel Curzon
Government
11-Jan-1859 20-Mar-1925 Created the Kingdom of Jordan
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
12-Feb-1809 19-Apr-1882 Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Sir William Davenant
Poet
1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert
Charles Dickens
Novelist
7-Feb-1812 9-Jun-1870 Oliver Twist
Michael Drayton
Poet
1563 23-Dec-1631 Poly-Olbion
John Dryden
Poet
19-Aug-1631 1-May-1700 Absalom and Achitophel
King Edward I
Royalty
17-Jun-1239 7-Jul-1307 Conquered Wales, persecuted Jews
King Edward III
Royalty
13-Nov-1312 21-Jun-1377 King of England, 1327-77
Edward the Confessor
Royalty
c. 1004 4-Jan-1066 King of England, 1042-66
King Edward VI
Royalty
12-Oct-1537 6-Jul-1553 King of England, 1547-53
Queen Elizabeth I
Royalty
7-Sep-1533 24-Mar-1603 The Virgin Queen
Charles James Fox
Politician
24-Jan-1749 13-Sep-1806 U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary
David Garrick
Actor
19-Feb-1717 20-Jan-1779 Manager of Drury Lane Theatre
John Gay
Poet
30-Jun-1685 4-Dec-1732 The Beggar's Opera
King George II
Royalty
10-Nov-1683 25-Oct-1760 King of Britain, 1727-60
William Ewart Gladstone
Head of State
29-Dec-1809 19-May-1898 Four times UK Prime Minister
Richard Hakluyt
Author
c. 1552 23-Nov-1616 Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation
George Frideric Handel
Composer
23-Feb-1685 14-Apr-1759 Messiah
King Henry VII
Royalty
28-Jan-1457 21-Apr-1509 King of England, 1485-1509
John Herschel
Astronomer
7-Mar-1792 11-May-1871 Discovered many moons of Saturn
Rowland Hill
Inventor
3-Dec-1795 27-Aug-1879 Invented the postage stamp
John Hunter
Doctor
13-Feb-1728 16-Oct-1793 English pathologist
Sir Henry Irving
Actor
6-Feb-1838 13-Oct-1905 English actor, Theater manager
King James I
Royalty
19-Jun-1566 27-Mar-1625 King of England, 1603-25
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer
18-Sep-1709 13-Dec-1784 A Dictionary of the English Language
Ben Jonson
Playwright
11-Jun-1572 6-Aug-1637 Volpone
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
26-Jun-1824 17-Dec-1907 Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Rudyard Kipling
Author
30-Dec-1865 18-Jan-1936 The Jungle Book
Andrew Bonar Law
Head of State
16-Sep-1858 30-Oct-1923 UK Prime Minister, 1922-23
David Livingstone
Explorer
19-Mar-1813 1-May-1873 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Charles Lyell
Geologist
14-Nov-1797 22-Feb-1875 Principles of Geology
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historian
25-Oct-1800 28-Dec-1859 History of England
Queen Mary I
Royalty
18-Feb-1516 17-Nov-1558 Queen of England, 1553-58
Mary I of Scotland
Royalty
8-Dec-1542 8-Feb-1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Mary II
Head of State
30-Apr-1662 28-Dec-1694 Queen of England 1689-94
John Masefield
Poet
1-Jun-1878 12-May-1967 Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Laurence Olivier
Actor
22-May-1907 11-Jul-1989 Shakespearean actor
William of Orange
Royalty
14-Nov-1650 8-Mar-1702 Conquered England, Scotland, Ireland
Sir James Outram
Military
29-Jan-1803 11-Mar-1863 Hero of the Indian Mutiny
Lord Palmerston
Head of State
20-Oct-1784 18-Oct-1865 Twice Prime Minister of UK
William Pitt the Elder
Head of State
15-Nov-1708 11-May-1778 Seven Years War
William Pitt the Younger
Head of State
28-May-1759 23-Jan-1806 UK Prime Minister
Henry Purcell
Composer
c. 1659 21-Nov-1695 Dido and Aeneas
King Richard II
Royalty
6-Jan-1367 14-Feb-1400 King of England 1377-99
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Thomas Sackville
Aristocrat
1536 19-Apr-1608 Earl of Dorset
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Playwright
30-Oct-1751 7-Jul-1816 The School for Scandal
Edmund Spenser
Poet
c. 1552 13-Jan-1599 The Faerie Queene
Robert Stephenson
Engineer
16-Oct-1803 12-Oct-1859 Builder of railroad bridges
George Edmund Street
Architect
20-Jun-1824 18-Dec-1881 English Gothic revival architect
Thomas Telford
Engineer
9-Aug-1757 2-Sep-1834 Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder
Sir William Temple
Diplomat
25-Apr-1628 27-Jan-1699 British Ambassador to Netherlands
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
6-Aug-1809 6-Oct-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade
J. J. Thomson
Physicist
18-Dec-1856 30-Aug-1940 Discovered the electron
Sybil Thorndike
Actor
24-Oct-1882 9-Jun-1976 English stage actress
James Ussher
Religion
4-Jan-1581 20-Mar-1656 Old Testament chronologist
William Wilberforce
Activist
24-Aug-1759 29-Jul-1833 Abolitionist activist and author


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