Poets' Corner - Memorials

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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