Memorials
Image | Name | Born | Died | Age at death | Year commemorated |
Details of memorial |
Occupation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Addison | 1672 | 1719 | 47 | 1809 | Statue | Poet | |
Christopher Anstey | 1724 | 1805 | 80 | 1807 | Stone tablet | Poet and author | |
Matthew Arnold | 1822 | 1888 | 65 | 1891 | Bust | Poet | |
Matthew Arnold | 1822 | 1888 | 65 | 1989 | Mural tablet | Poet | |
Peggy Ashcroft | 1907 | 1991 | 83 | 2005 | Floor stone | Actress | |
W. H. Auden | 1907 | 1973 | 66 | 1974 | Floor stone | Poet | |
Jane Austen | 1775 | 1817 | 41 | 1967 | Wall tablet | Author | |
John Betjeman | 1906 | 1984 | 77 | 1996 | Floor stone | Poet and author | |
William Blake | 1757 | 1827 | 69 | 1957 | Memorial bust | Poet and artist | |
... | Barton Booth | 1681 | 1733 | 51–52 | 1772 | Monument | Actor |
Charlotte Brontë | 1816 | 1855 | 38 | 1947 | Memorial tablet | Author | |
Anne Brontë | 1820 | 1849 | 29 | 1947 | Memorial tablet | Author | |
Emily Brontë | 1818 | 1848 | 30 | 1947 | Memorial tablet | Author | |
Elizabeth Browning | 1806 | 1861 | 55 | 1906 | Floor stone | Poet | |
Fanny Burney | 1752 | 1840 | 87 | 2002 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Author and playwright | |
Robert Burns | 1759 | 1796 | 37 | 1885 | Memorial bust by John Steell. Unveiled 7 March 1885 by the Earl of Rosebery. | Poet | |
Samuel Butler | 1612 | 1680 | 68 | 1721 | Memorial bust | Poet | |
George Gordon Byron | 1788 | 1824 | 36 | 1969 | Floor stone | Poet | |
Caedmon | fl.657 | fl.680 | unknown | 1966 | Floor stone | Poet | |
John Campbell | 1678 | 1743 | 64 | 1749 | Monument | Soldier and nobleman | |
Lewis Carroll | 1832 | 1898 | 65 | 1982 | Floor stone | Author | |
John Clare | 1793 | 1864 | 70 | 1989 | Floor stone | Poet | |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 | 1834 | 61 | 1885 | Memorial bust | Poet | |
George Eliot | 1819 | 1880 | 61 | 1980 | Floor stone | Author | |
T. S. Eliot | 1888 | 1965 | 76 | 1967 | Floor stone | Poet and playwright | |
Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810 | 1865 | 55 | 2010 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Novelist | |
Oliver Goldsmith | 1728 | 1774 | 45 | 1776 | Memorial tablet and bust | Poet and playwright | |
Adam Lindsay Gordon | 1833 | 1870 | 36 | 1934 | Memorial bust | Poet | |
... | John Ernest Grabe | 1666 | 1711 | 44–45 | 1727 | Monument | Priest and theologian |
Thomas Gray | 1716 | 1771 | 54 | 1778 | Monument | Poet and historian | |
Stephen Hales | 1677 | 1761 | 83 | 1761 | Monument | Priest and scientist | |
Robert Herrick | 1591 | 1674 | 83 | 1994 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Poet | |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844 | 1889 | 44 | 1975 | Floor stone | Poet | |
A. E. Housman | 1859 | 1936 | 77 | 1996 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Poet | |
Ted Hughes | 1930 | 1998 | 68 | 2011 | Floor stone at the foot of that for T. S. Eliot, one of his main influences | Poet | |
Henry James | 1843 | 1916 | 72 | 1976 | Floor stone | Author | |
Ben Jonson | 1572 | 1637 | 65 | 1723 | Floor stone | Playwright and poet | |
John Keats | 1795 | 1821 | 25 | 1954 | Mural tablet | Poet | |
John Keble | 1792 | 1866 | 73 | 1873 | Bust | Poet | |
D. H. Lawrence | 1885 | 1930 | 44 | 1985 | Floor stone | Author and poet | |
Edward Lear | 1812 | 1888 | 75 | 1988 | Floor stone | Author and poet | |
Jenny Lind | 1820 | 1887 | 67 | 1894 | Wall tablet. "A medallion portrait of the famous singer – the last work of the late Mr Birch – has been placed in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, and was yesterday unveiled by the Princess Christian." | Opera singer | |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807 | 1882 | 75 | 1884 | Memorial bust by Thomas Brock, unveiled 1 March 1884. | Poet | |
F. W. Maitland | 1850 | 1906 | 56 | 2001 | Floor stone | Historian | |
Christopher Marlowe | 1564 | 1593 | 29 | 2002 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Playwright and poet | |
William Mason | 1724 | 1797 | 72–73 | 1799 | Monument | Poet | |
... | Thomas May | 1595 | 1650 | 54–56 | 1880 | Wall stone | Poet and playwright |
John Milton | 1608 | 1674 | 65 | 1737 | Monument | Poet and author | |
John Phillips | 1676 | 1709 | 32 | 1710 | Monument | Poet | |
Alexander Pope | 1688 | 1744 | 56 | 1994 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Poet | |
John Pringle | 1707 | 1782 | 74 | ... | Monument | Military physician | |
Hannah Pritchard | 1711 | 1768 | 56–57 | ... | Monument. Later moved to the triforium. | Actress | |
John Ruskin | 1819 | 1900 | 80 | 1902 | Portrait roundel in bronze by Onslow Ford. Unveiled 8 February 1902, after a controversy over whether Ruskin felt monuments like this wasted money and disfigured a building's architectural unity. | Poet and art critic | |
Walter Scott | 1771 | 1832 | 61 | 1897 | Bust by the Scottish sculptor Hutchinson, "a beautifully executed copy of the famous Chantrey bust at Abbotsford". | Author and poet | |
Thomas Shadwell | c.1642 | 1692 | ~50 | c.1700 | Monument | Poet and playwright | |
William Shakespeare | 1564 | 1616 | 52 | 1740 | Monument | Playwright and poet | |
Granville Sharp | 1735 | 1813 | 77 | 1816 | Monument | Slavery abolitionist | |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792 | 1822 | 29 | 1954 | Mural tablet | Poet | |
Robert Southey | 1774 | 1843 | 68 | 1845 | Monument | Poet | |
William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811 | 1863 | 52 | 1865 | Bust | Author | |
James Thomson | 1700 | 1748 | 47 | 1762 | Monument | Poet and playwright | |
Dylan Thomas | 1914 | 1953 | 39 | 1982 | Floor stone | Poet and author | |
Anthony Trollope | 1815 | 1882 | 67 | 1993 | Floor stone | Author | |
... | William Vincent | 1739 | 1815 | 76 | c.1815 1 | Monument | Dean of Westminster |
Oscar Wilde | 1854 | 1900 | 46 | 1995 | Panel on Hubbard memorial window | Playwright and author | |
William Wordsworth | 1770 | 1850 | 80 | 1854 | Monument | Poet | |
James Wyatt | 1746 | 1813 | 67 | ... | Monument | Architect |
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