Poets' Corner
Memorials

Poets' Corner

Section Title: Memorials
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Image	Name	Born	Died	Age at death	Year commemorated	Details of memorial	Occupation

-	Joseph Addison	1672	1719	47	1809	Statue	Poet and essayist

-	Christopher Anstey	1724	1805	80	1807	Stone tablet	Poet and author

-	Matthew Arnold	1822	1888	65	1989	Memorial bust & Mural tablet	Poet

-	Peggy Ashcroft	1907	1991	83	2005	Floor stone	Actress

-	W. H. Auden	1907	1973	66	1974	Floor stone	Poet

-	Jane Austen	1775	1817	41	1967	Wall tablet	Author

-	John Betjeman	1906	1984	77	1996	Floor stone	Poet and author

-	William Blake	1757	1827	69	1957	Memorial bust	Poet and artist

...	Barton Booth	1681	1733	51–52	1772	Monument	Actor

Charlotte Brontë Richmond cropped.tif	Charlotte Brontë	1816	1855	38	1947	Memorial tablet	Author

-	Anne Brontë	1820	1849	29	1947	Memorial tablet	Author

-	Emily Brontë	1818	1848	30	1947	Memorial tablet	Author

-	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806	1861	55	1906	Floor stone	Poet

-	Fanny Burney	1752	1840	87	2002	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Author and playwright

-	Robert Burns	1759	1796	37	1885	Memorial bust by John Steell. Unveiled 7 March 1885 by the Earl of Rosebery.	Poet

-	Samuel Butler	1612	1680	68	1721	Memorial bust	Poet

-	Lord Byron	1788	1824	36	1969	Floor stone	Poet

-	Cædmon	fl.657	fl.680	unknown	1966	Floor stone	Poet

-	John Campbell	1678	1743	64	1749	Monument	Soldier and nobleman

-	Lewis Carroll	1832	1898	65	1982	Floor stone	Author

-	John Clare	1793	1864	70	1989	Floor stone	Poet

-	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772	1834	61	1885	Memorial bust	Poet

-	George Eliot	1819	1880	61	1980	Floor stone	Author

T.S. Eliot, 1923.JPG	T. S. Eliot	1888	1965	76	1967	Floor stone	Poet and playwright

-	David Frost	1939	2013	74	2014	Floor stone	Journalist, comedian, writer and media personality

-	Elizabeth Gaskell	1810	1865	55	2010	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Novelist

-	Oliver Goldsmith	1728	1774	45	1776	Memorial tablet and bust	Poet and playwright

-	Adam Lindsay Gordon	1833	1870	36	1934	Memorial bust	Poet

...	John Ernest Grabe	1666	1711	44–45	1727	Monument	Priest and theologian

-	Thomas Gray	1716	1771	54	1778	Monument	Poet and historian

-	Stephen Hales	1677	1761	83	1761	Monument	Priest and scientist

-	Robert Herrick	1591	1674	83	1994	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Poet

-	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1844	1889	44	1975	Floor stone	Poet

Alfred Edward Housman.jpeg	A. E. Housman	1859	1936	77	1996	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Poet

Poet Ted HughesDCP 2068.JPG	Ted Hughes	1930	1998	68	2011	Floor stone at the foot of that for T. S. Eliot, one of his main influences	Poet

-	Henry James	1843	1916	72	1976	Floor stone	Author

-	Ben Jonson	1572	1637	65	1723	Wall tablet	Playwright and poet

-	John Keats	1795	1821	25	1954	Mural tablet	Poet

-	John Keble	1792	1866	73	1873	Bust	Poet

...	Philip Larkin	1922	1985	63	2016	Floor stone. The stone was inscribed with the final two lines from "An Arundel Tomb": Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.	Poet and novelist

-	D. H. Lawrence	1885	1930	44	1985	Floor stone	Author and poet

-	Edward Lear	1812	1888	75	1988	Floor stone	Author and poet

...	C. S. Lewis	1898	1963	64	2013	Floor stone. The dedication service, at noon on 22 November 2013, included a reading from The Last Battle by Douglas Gresham, younger stepson of Lewis.	Author

-	Jenny Lind	1820	1887	67	1894	Wall tablet. "A medallion portrait of the famous singer – the last work of the late Mr Birch – has been placed in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, and was yesterday unveiled by the Princess Christian."	Opera singer

-	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807	1882	75	1884	Memorial bust by Thomas Brock, unveiled 1 March 1884.	Poet

-	F. W. Maitland	1850	1906	56	2001	Floor stone	Historian

-	Christopher Marlowe	1564	1593	29	2002	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Playwright and poet

-	William Mason	1724	1797	72–73	1799	Monument	Poet

...	Thomas May	1595	1650	54–56	1880	Wall stone	Poet and playwright

-	John Milton	1608	1674	65	1737	Monument	Poet and author

-	John Philips	1676	1709	32	1710	Monument	Poet

-	Alexander Pope	1688	1744	56	1994	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Poet

-	John Pringle	1707	1782	74	...	Monument	Military physician

-	Hannah Pritchard	1711	1768	56–57	...	Monument. Later moved to the triforium.	Actress

-	John Ruskin	1819	1900	80	1902	Portrait roundel in bronze by Onslow Ford. Unveiled 8 February 1902, after a controversy over whether Ruskin felt monuments like this wasted money and disfigured a building's architectural unity.	Poet and art critic

-	Walter Scott	1771	1832	61	1897	Bust by the Scottish sculptor John Hutchison, "a beautifully executed copy of the famous Chantrey bust at Abbotsford".	Author and poet

-	Thomas Shadwell	c.1642	1692	~50	c.1700	Monument	Poet and playwright

-	William Shakespeare	1564	1616	52	1740	Monument	Playwright and poet

-	Granville Sharp	1735	1813	77	1816	Monument	Slavery abolitionist

-	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792	1822	29	1954	Mural tablet	Poet

-	Robert Southey	1774	1843	68	1845	Monument	Poet

-	William Makepeace Thackeray	1811	1863	52	1865	Bust	Author

-	James Thomson	1700	1748	47	1762	Monument	Poet and playwright

-	Dylan Thomas	1914	1953	39	1982	Floor stone	Poet and author

-	Anthony Trollope	1815	1882	67	1993	Floor stone	Author

-	William Vincent	1739	1815	76	c.1815 1	Monument	Dean of Westminster

Oscar Wilde.jpeg	Oscar Wilde	1854	1900	46	1995	Panel on Hubbard memorial window	Playwright and author

-	William Wordsworth	1770	1850	80	1854	Monument	Poet

James Wyatt.JPG	James Wyatt	1746	1813	67	...	Monument	Architect

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Lord Byron died in 1824 and a memorial was given in 1969.

final_sentence: Lord Byron died in 1824 and a memorial was given in 1969.