Notable People Associated With The Church
- Thomas Kyd, Elizabethan dramatist, was baptized here; his father Francis was also a churchwarden.
- Josias Shute was rector here from 1611.
- Ralph Robinson was presbyterian minister here on the 1640s.
- William Owtram was rector here.
- Thomas Busby the composer was organist here from 1798.
- John Newton, evangelical, anti-slavery campaigner and hymnist, was incumbent here from 1780 to 1807.
- William Wilberforce, anti-slavery campaigner, worshipped here.
- Edward Lloyd, founder of Lloyd's of London, is memorialised here.
- William Josiah Irons the theologian was rector here from 1872.
- Sir William Phips was buried here.February 18, 1694/5
- Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, noted American colonial woman, married William Hutchinson here in 1612.
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