Notable People
The Reverend Grevile Marais Livett, FSA, a longtime precentor of the cathedral and later vicar of Wateringbury, authored several books and monographs on the Norman churches of England as well as contributing extensively to Archaeologica Cantiana, the journal of the Kent Archaeology Society. (Livett's name was a variant of Levett, an old Sussex and Kentish family.)
The author Charles Dickens had wished to be buried in the churchyard at Rochester. Instead, his body was buried in Poet's Corner inside Westminster Abbey.
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