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The Westminster Abbey was established on December 28, 1065. The formal title of the Abbey is The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster. ... He was not present the day the Westminster Abbey was consecrated and he died a few days later. He is buried at Westminster Abbey behind the High Altar. The Westminster Abbey is a place where monarchs are crowned. ... The Westminster Abbey has more than three thousand people buried on its grounds. To be buried at the Abbey you must be of either British nationality or you must have helped the Abbey in some way. There are many famous people buried at Westminster Abbey, they include the following: Poets/writers: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Dr. ... Thomson Musicians: George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell, John Blow, Ralph Vaughan Williams Actors: David Garrick, Sir Henry Irving, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Laurence Olivier Architects: Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, Sir Charles Barry, Sir George Gilbert Scott,George Edmund Street, Sir Herbert Baker Politicians: William Pitt Earl of Chatham, William Pitt the Younger, Charles James Fox, William Ewart Gladstone, Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee Military: Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Field Marshal George Wade, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Lord Trenchard, Lord Dowding Thomas Parr, the man who lived for over l52 years and throughout the reigns of ten monarchs, was buried at Westminster Abbey by order of King Charles I in November 1635. |
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