Salisbury Cathedral - Burials

Burials

Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE (1916–2005), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.

Other burials
  • Saint Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury (1078 to 1099)
  • Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Salisbury (1102 to 1139)
  • Josceline de Bohon, Bishop of Salisbury (1142 to 1184)
  • Robert de Bingham, Bishop of Salisbury (1229 to 1246)
  • Giles of Bridport, Bishop of Salisbury (1256 to 1262)
  • Walter de la Wyle, Bishop of Salisbury (1263 to 1271)
  • Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury (1291 to 1297)
  • Simon of Ghent, Bishop of Salisbury (1297 to 1315)
  • Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury (1315 to 1330)
  • Richard Mitford, Bishop of Salisbury (1395 to 1407)
  • Richard Beauchamp (bishop), Bishop of Salisbury (1450 to 1482)
  • Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury (1501 to 1524)
  • John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury (1559 to 1571)
  • Edmund Gheast, Bishop of Salisbury (1571 to 1577)
  • Alexander Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury (1665 to 1667)
  • John Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury (1761 to 1766)
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