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Westminster Abbey Ancestors – 40 Nobles & Peers

An aerial view of London showing Westminster Abbey (foreground), the London Eye, County Hall, Westminster Bridge, Hungerford Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Parliament Street. PA Photo. Issue date: Tuesday June 2, 2020. See PA story HERITAGE London Aerial. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire


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Depiction of Sæberht from John Speed‘s map of the Heptarchy (The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, 1611)
1906 plan of Westminster Abbey showing Sæberht’s putative tomb by the entrance of the south ambulatory

Sæberht of Essex (585 – 614) founder of Westminster Abbey, 1st East Saxon king convert to Christianity

Nobles and Peers

Lady Margaret de Beaufort (1437 – 1474) Tomb

Sir Francis Beaumont (1584 – 1615) and son Sir John Poets’s Corner graves

Eleanor Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, KG (1366 – 1399) Tomb


Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1749 – 1800) Grave


Archibald Campbell, 3rd Lord of Auchenbreck & Kilmichael, KB (1480 – 1546) and his nephew Sir James Campbell Grave; statue


John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, KG (1680 – 1743) Grave; statue


Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys (1518 – 1568) Grave;tablet


Henry Tudor Carey, Lord Hunsdon & Family (1526 – 1596) Vault

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, KB, KG, MP (1592 – 1676) Tomb

Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford (1556 – 1588) Tomb

Sir Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exetor (1542 – 1622) and son William Vault

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) Poets’ Corner Tomb 1st poet interred in Poets’ Corner

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG (1874 – 1965) Memorial

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1599 – 1658) Memorial

Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882) Grave; Bust

Charles Lutwidge “Lewis Carroll” Dodgson (1832 – 1896) Poet’s Corner Memorial

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (1515 – 1578) Grave

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 1596) Memorial

John Dryden (1631 – 1700) Poets’ Corner Memorial

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister (1830 – 1903) Tomb

John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford (1700 – 1762) Grave;tablet

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon & Family (1609 – 1674) Vault

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) Poets’ Corner Memorial

James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) Memorial

Philippa Mohun, Duchess of York (1360 – 1431) Tomb

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608 – 1670) Statue; vault

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900 – 1972) Memorial

Anne de Mowbray, Duchess of York and Norfolk (1472 – 1481) Grave

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705 – 1793) Grave; statue

Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (1642 – 1727) Grave; statue

Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster (1244 – 1296) Grave

John Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall (1315 – 1336) Tomb

Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) Poets’ Corner Memorial

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Poets’ Corner Statue

Edmund Spencer (1553 – 1599) Poet’s Corner Memorial

Lady Dorothy Stafford (1525 – 1604) Tomb

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1225 – 1296) Tomb; plague

Sir Francis Vere and brother Horace (1560 – 1609) Tomb

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham & Family (1592 – 1628) Tomb;statue


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Bibliography

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey: The History of England’s Most Famous Church

The Patricians, A Genealogical Study – Ebook Editions US$5.95

Author at Harrod’s Deli – London

Steven Wood Collins (1952 – ) Antiquarian, Genealogist, Novelist

By Steven Wood Collins

I spent most of my life unaware of my ancestral heritage. Sure, I knew of the personal history of my more immediate relatives; but beyond that, I never had any inkling as to my ancestral heritage. Then one day many years ago my sister said to me, “I sometimes wonder about our family background.” And so my quest to discover our genealogical roots commenced.

I started building my family tree with the very basic relationships, going back in time from my grandparents, one ancestor at a time. That initial effort proved to be the hardest part of the pursuit, mainly due to my lack of expertise as a novice genealogical researcher. As I gained familiarity with the databases and how to efficiently mine them, my progress gained ever-increasing momentum. Today, The Patricians! tree (Ancestry.com) contains nearly 120,000 individuals, stretching over 135 generations, 5,800 of which are my direct ancestors in a genealogical sense.

During this trek back in time, I encountered fascinating figures in both history and obscurity. This blog contains many stories about their genealogical relationship to me (and many of you). By far and away, as a student of history, the historically obscure individuals are of particular interest to me. I cite Baron “Blue Beard” Montmorency-Laval de Rais (1405 – 1440) as an example of a historically maligned personage whose real contribution to history, as both a playwright and hero of France, has yet to be properly recognized. Another example is Earl Edward de Vere (1550 – 1604), who’s yet to gain widespread recognition as the actual author of the body of literary work wrongly ascribed to William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).

My life-long interest in international economics and finance continues unabated. I primarily demonstrate this professional involvement as a contributor to the Long Room, the members-only international finance professionals' forum hosted by the Financial Times of London.

I'm an avid recreational scuba diver who enjoys traveling to exotic dive sites. My love of the sea and marine life gives me an unbounded appreciation and support of “green” issues, especially those devoted to the conservation of endangered species and coral reefs.

He continually posts results of his personal genealogical research to his Goodreads Authors Blog. Entitled The Patricians - The Ancestral Heritage of Steven Wood Collins, the work represents thousand of hours of his research efforts and related commentary.

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