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Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
In 1918, he became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained until his death. He died on 30 August 1940; his ashes rest in Westminster Abbey, [19] near the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and his former student Ernest Rutherford. [20] Rutherford succeeded him as Cavendish Professor of Physics.
English: Monument to James Thomson, (1700-1748), Westminster Abbey, London, designed by Robert Adam, carved by Michael Spring. Erected 1762 in Poets' Corner, monument shows a seated figure of Thomson attended by a cherub.
Reference no. 1291494 [ 2 ] Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs.
At the same time as the funeral in Westminster Abbey, a service was held in St Columba's Episcopal Church, Largs, attended by a large congregation including burgh dignitaries. [88] Lord Kelvin is memorialised on the Thomson family grave in Glasgow Necropolis.
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated. The first poet interred in Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer in 1400. [ 1 ] William Shakespeare was commemorated with a monument in 1740, over a century after his death.
Death Place of burial Image Charles II: 1685 Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [6] James II and VII: 1701 Chapel of St Edmund, Church of the English Benedictines, Rue St. Jacques, Paris (lost at the French Revolution) [16] Mary II: 1694 Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey [6] William III and II: 1702 Anne: 1714 George I: 1727
Westminster Abbey in central London has been the site of coronations, weddings and burials of English and then British royalty for nearly 1,000 years. On Monday, it will be the venue for the state ...