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John Newton (/ ˈ nj uː t ən /; 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist.He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade.
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]
Memorial plaque to John Newton and his wife in the church. Sir Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor (1545–46) and Mint Master, was married and buried here, and his children and grandchildren baptized. Thomas Kyd, Elizabethan dramatist, was baptised here; his father Francis was also a churchwarden. Josias Shute was rector here from 1611.
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British physicist Stephen Hawking is to take his place among some of the greatest scientists in history when his ashes are interred inside Westminster Abbey, close to the graves of Isaac Newton ...
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. [1] There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. [2] Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve.
This is a list of notable individuals who were buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., ... John T. Newton (1793–1857), U.S. naval officer [1]
John Newton (August 24, 1823 – May 1, 1895) was an American general and engineer who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and as Chief of the Corps of Engineers in the United States Army. He served as Commissioner of Public Works in New York City and as President of the Panama Railroad Company.