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color=red><b>CEMETERY</b></font><p> <p><p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.westminster-abbey.org/">http://www.westminster-abbey.org/</a><p><b>Location:</b><br><a href="/geo/881/000069674/" class=proflink>London, England</a><p> <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000084544/"><font size=-1>Robert Adam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Architect</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scottish Neoclassical architect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000087069/"><font size=-1>Joseph Addison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1672</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1719</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Spectator</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/049/000094764/"><font size=-1>Edmund Allenby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Defeated the Turks in WWI</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/402/000093123/"><font size=-1>Queen Anne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1665</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1714</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Queen of England, 1702-14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/970/000024898/"><font size=-1>Clement Attlee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Prime Minister, 1945-51</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/345/000174820/"><font size=-1>Francis Beaumont</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1584</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Collaborator with John Fletcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000031999/"><font size=-1>Aphra Behn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jul-1640</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1689</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000164379/"><font size=-1>Ernest Bevin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000093327/"><font size=-1>John Blow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1649</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Venus and Adonis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/114/000102805/"><font size=-1>Anne Bracegirdle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1663</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1748</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Actress in Congreve's plays</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000031939/"><font size=-1>Robert Browning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prominent Victorian poet and playwright</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000084724/"><font size=-1>Edward George Bulwer-Lytton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Last Days of Pompeii</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000102948/"><font size=-1>Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philanthropist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Victorian philanthropist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000094563/"><font size=-1>William Camden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1551</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1623</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Britannia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000094792/"><font size=-1>Colin Campbell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Commander-in-chief of India</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000095081/"><font size=-1>George Canning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/554/000093275/"><font size=-1>King Charles II</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1630</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England 1660-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000024774/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Chaucer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1343</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1400</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Canterbury Tales</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000204050/"><font size=-1>Lord Clarendon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1609</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1674</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Clarendon Code</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/403/000093124/"><font size=-1>Muzio Clementi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1752</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gradus ad Parnassum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/097/000094812/"><font size=-1>Thomas Cochrane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1775</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/966/000086708/"><font size=-1>William Congreve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1670</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1729</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Way of the World</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000159520/"><font size=-1>George Nathaniel Curzon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Created the Kingdom of Jordan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/569/000024497/"><font size=-1>Charles Darwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Naturalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000096746/"><font size=-1>Sir William Davenant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1606</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1668</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Gondibert</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000024695/"><font size=-1>Charles Dickens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Oliver Twist</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000179760/"><font size=-1>Michael Drayton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1563</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poly-Olbion</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000085069/"><font size=-1>John Dryden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Absalom and Achitophel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000093034/"><font size=-1>King Edward I</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1239</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1307</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conquered Wales, persecuted Jews</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000093036/"><font size=-1>King Edward III</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1312</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1377</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England, 1327-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/717/000093438/"><font size=-1>Edward the Confessor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1004</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1066</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England, 1042-66</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/609/000093330/"><font size=-1>King Edward VI</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1537</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1553</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England, 1547-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/188/000085930/"><font size=-1>Queen Elizabeth I</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1533</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1603</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Virgin Queen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000092200/"><font size=-1>Charles James Fox</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/423/000087162/"><font size=-1>David Garrick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1717</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Manager of Drury Lane Theatre</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/576/000104264/"><font size=-1>John Gay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1732</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Beggar's Opera</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000086760/"><font size=-1>King George II</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1683</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1760</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of Britain, 1727-60</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/303/000092027/"><font size=-1>William Ewart Gladstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Four times UK Prime Minister</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000096396/"><font size=-1>Richard Hakluyt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1552</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/946/000091673/"><font size=-1>George Frideric Handel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Messiah</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/656/000093377/"><font size=-1>King Henry VII</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1457</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1509</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England, 1485-1509</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000086793/"><font size=-1>John Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered many moons of Saturn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000166514/"><font size=-1>Rowland Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the postage stamp</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/759/000091486/"><font size=-1>John Hunter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English pathologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000104879/"><font size=-1>Sir Henry Irving</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English actor, Theater manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/556/000093277/"><font size=-1>King James I</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Royalty</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1566</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1625</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of England, 1603-25</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000085158/"><font size=-1>Samuel Johnson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Lexicographer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1709</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Dictionary of the English Language</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/168/000025093/"><font size=-1>Ben Jonson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1572</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1637</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Volpone</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/"><font size=-1>Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000024895/"><font size=-1>Rudyard Kipling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Jungle Book</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/931/000088667/"><font size=-1>Andrew Bonar Law</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Prime Minister, 1922-23</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000092011/"><font size=-1>David Livingstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Explorer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Dr. Livingstone, I presume?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000086988/"><font size=-1>Charles Lyell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font 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