Malmesbury Abbey - Other Burials

Other Burials

  • Aldhelm, first Bishop of Salisbury and Saint
  • Hannah Twynnoy: Supposedly the first person to be killed by a tiger in England, she is buried in the churchyard, her grave inscribed with a poem. She was an early-18th-century barmaid working in a local public house, killed on October 23, 1703.

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