Who's Buried at Westminster Abbey?
Nobody really knows for sure how many people have been buried at the Abbey since it's founding 1,000 years ago. But archives indicate approximately 3,300 British, and a few citizens from other nations, are buried there. Some of the celebrities represent a Who's Who of the most famous Brits of the Millennium: Edward the Confessor, King Henry V, Geoffrey Chaucer ("The Canterbury Tales"), Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin. There are more than 600 monuments, statues, plaques and memorial tablets honoring British notables buried in Westminster Abbey (source:Chicago Tribune, December 5, 1999).