Westminster Abbey

INTRODUCTION:

        The church contains the bones of St Edward the Confessor as well as the remains of many other famous persons. These include Ben Jonson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Dryden, Dr Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling,Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Ernest Rutherford,George Friderich Handel, HenryPurcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Laurence Olivier, William Pitt the Elder, William Pitt the Younger, William Ewart Gladstone, Clement Attlee, and David Livingstone. Oliver Cromwell wasburied in the abbey but Charles II ordered his remains removed.