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Famous People Buried In
The Abbey
Poets/writers:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Dr Samuel Johnson,
Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard
Kipling, John Masefield.
Scientists/engineers:
Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Telford, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin,
Ernest Rutherford, Sir J.J.Thomson
Musicians:
George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell, John Blow, Ralph Vaughan
Williams
Actors:
David Garrick, Sir Henry Irving, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Laurence
Olivier
Architects:
Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, Sir Charles Barry, Sir George
Gilbert Scott,
George
Edmund Street, Sir Herbert Baker
Politicians:
William Pitt Earl of Chatham, William Pitt the Younger, Charles
James Fox, William Ewart Gladstone, Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee
Military/naval/RAF:
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Field Marshal George Wade, Admiral Sir
Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Lord Trenchard, Lord
Dowding
Others
: David Livingstone, Sir Rowland Hill, William Wilberforce,
Baroness Burdett Coutts
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