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Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, Composer and Musician
A memorial to composer and playwright Noel Coward was unveiled by The Queen Mother on 28th March 1984 in Westminster Abbey’s south choir aisle.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Writer and Novelist
In 2010 a memorial to Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist and biographer, was dedicated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It consists of a window panel.
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Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Politician
Politician Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke) has a bust in the eastern porch of St Margaret's Church Westminster. He was born at Bingham, Nottinghamshire in 1811.
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Jenny Lind
Musician
In the south transept of Westminster Abbey is a white Sicilian marble memorial to the "Swedish nightingale" Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt.
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William Benson
Abbot and Dean
William Benson, first Dean of Westminster, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey (in the area formerly called the chapel of St Blaize).
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Barton Booth
Actor
In the south transept is a memorial to actor Barton Booth. There is a portrait medallion with an allegorical figure crowning him with a laurel.
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Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Dowager of Strathmore, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, wearing, it is said, a superb bridal dress.
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Thomas Jennings & Helen Shrider
Musician
On the wall of the south cloister of Westminster Abbey is a tablet to Thomas Jennings or Jenings and his wife Elizabeth. Their daughter Helen (Shrider) is also buried with them.
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Peter Birch
Priest/Minister
Peter Birch, clergyman, and his wife Martha are buried in the south transept. Martha has a white marble Baroque wall tablet near Chaucer's tomb.
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Thomas Bilson
Priest/Minister and Writer
Thomas Bilson, bishop of Winchester, is buried in the south ambulatory. The plate over his grave has been moved against the wall for better preservation.
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Thomas Betterton
Actor
The famous actor manager Thomas Betterton was buried in the East Cloister "over against the third pillar from the south end next to the garden".
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Anne Incledon
In St Margaret's church’s south aisle is a marble cartouche to Anne Incledon, wife of John. Anne's father John Wynyard is buried in the Abbey.
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Thomas Richardson
Lawyer
Sir Thomas Richardson, judge and Speaker of the House of Commons, was buried in the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey.
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John Wynyard
Soldier
General John Wynyard is buried in the nave. When the nave floor was re-laid in 1834 his gravestone was taken up and replaced.
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Charles Brett
Soldier
Charles Brett, married to Mary, daughter of Colonel John Jeaffreson, in Westminster Abbey on 3rd March 1674, was buried 27th May 1682 in St Margaret's.
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Lord Robens of Woldingham
Politician and Philanthropist
As a generous donor to the Westminster Abbey restoration appeal Lord Robens of Woldingham, politician and industrialist, has a small stained glass window.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer
A window was erected in the nave of Westminster Abbey in 1868 to commemorate the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Designed by Norman Shaw.
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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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Arbella (Arabella) Stuart
Lady Arbella Stuart, cousin to James VI of Scotland and I of England, lies in a vault beneath the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel.
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Apsley family
Four members of the Apsley family are buried in the south ambulatory of Westminster Abbey: Sir Allen, Frances, Anne and Allen.