Chester Cathedral - Burials

Burials

  • Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (c. 1047 - 27 July 1101), first in the cemetery of Saint Werberg, reburied in the Chapter House
  • Ranulf Higden Chronicler (c. 1280–1364)
  • John Pearson (bishop), Bishop of Chester (1673–1686)
  • Samuel Peploe (bishop), Bishop of Chester (1725–1752)
  • John Graham (bishop), Bishop of Chester (1845–1865) – in the cemetery
  • George Clarke of Hyde, Former Colonial Governor of New York, America between 1736 to 1743
  • Frederick Phillips, A wealthy landowner from New York, America, who was loyal to the British Colonial Government and forced to quit his estates.
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