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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]
Bust of Mead, Westminster Abbey. Mead was a collector of paintings, rare books, classical sculpture, gems and zoological specimens, which he made available for study at the library in his Bloomsbury house. [2] [3] His collection consisted of 10,000 volumes. [4]
Baillie died of tuberculosis on 23 September 1823 in Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire, England at the age of 61 and was buried in Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire. There is also a memorial to him within Westminster Abbey. [4] The memorial (with bust) is by James Heffernan working in the studio of Francis Chantrey. [5]
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 least 16 royal weddings have ...
Pages in category "Burials at Westminster Abbey" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 429 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Westminster Abbey has the highest Gothic vault in England, spanning 102 feet. According to westminster-abbey.org, the ceiling was made to seem higher by making the aisles narrow. The spectacular ...
Two Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested after they defaced Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey.. Police led the two protesters away after they used chalk spray to write “1.5 is ...
[a] He was given a ceremonial funeral, attended by nobles, scientists, and philosophers, and was buried in Westminster Abbey among kings and queens. He was the first scientist to be buried in the abbey. [133] Voltaire may have been present at his funeral. [134]