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• One People Oration 2001

  Monday, 2nd July 2001

  Speaker: Mr Richard Dowden

• Elgar Organ Works

  Robert Quinney performs an imposing recital of works by Elgar featuring the majestic Organ Sonata in G.

• Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writer and Poet

  The poet Robert Browning is buried in Poets' Corner. His wife, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is buried in Florence, but is memorialised in Westminster Abbey.

• Robert Hooke memorialised at Westminster Abbey

  Wednesday, 23rd February 2005

  Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of seventeenth-century English scientists will be memorialised at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 3 March at 6.00pm.

  Robert Hooke Memorial dedication

• Canon Robert Wright to leave Abbey

  Friday, 5th February 2010

  Canon Robert Wright, Rector of St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, told the congregation at St Margaret’s at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 7th February that he will resign at the end of September 2010.

  Canon Robert Wright

• Robert Hooke, Engineer and Scientist, to have Abbey memorial

  Monday, 28th July 2003

  The Dean of Westminster, Dr Wesley Carr, announced tonight that, seventeenth century English scientist and architect, Robert Hooke is to be memorialised in Westminster Abbey on the tercentenary of his death.

  memorial

• Robert Quinney appointed Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral

  Friday, 19th October 2012

  The Chapter of Peterborough Cathedral has announced that it has appointed Mr Robert Quinney as Director of Music. He will take up his new post in April 2013.

  Robert Quinney Choir of Westminster Abbey

• 16th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2001

  Delivered by Professor Stephen Clark, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2001 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• The Abbey Welcomes Canon Robert Reiss

  Thursday, 5th May 2005

  The Reverend Canon Robert Reiss has been installed as Canon Treasurer at Westminster Abbey. Canon Reiss was educated at Trinity College Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.

  Reverend Canon Robert Reiss

• 38th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 23rd May 2024

  Canon Paula Gooder gives the 2024 Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, discussing truth telling and storytelling

  Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

• 19th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 27th May 2004

  Delivered by Father Timothy Radcliffe OP at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 27th May 2004 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 37th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 25th May 2023

  Loretta Minghella talks about Money, Bias and the Geography of the Heart

• The Reverend Robert Latham appointed Minor Canon and Sacrist

  Sunday, 20th June 2021

  The Reverend Robert Latham, curate in the Fromeside Benefice of Churches in the Diocese of Bristol, has been appointed Minor Canon and Sacrist of Westminster Abbey.

• Robert Marsh

  Robert Marsh was Receiver General of Westminster Abbey and was buried in the north cloister. He was appointed joint Receiver with J.H. Gell in 1854.

• Robert White

  Musician and Composer

  Robert White, composer, and his wife Ellen (Tye) were buried in St Margaret's Westminster. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey.

• Robert Adam

  Architect

  In the south transept of Westminster Abbey is the grave of the celebrated Scottish architect Robert Adam. The stone was re-cut in 1974.

• Robert Hooke

  Scientist and Writer

  A memorial for Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of English scientists, was unveiled on 3rd March 2005.

• 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.

• Robert Townson

  Dean and Priest/Minister

  Robert Townson (or Tounson) was buried just outside the chapel of St Edmund in Westminster Abbey but he never had a monument or inscribed gravestone.

• Robert Burns

  Poet and Composer

  A marble bust of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns is on the wall of Poets’ Corner near memorials to Shakespeare and Scottish poet James Thomson.