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• Abbey Marks 750th Anniversary of Simon de Montfort Parliament

  Friday, 23rd January 2015

  The 750th anniversary of the Simon de Montfort Parliament was remembered at Evensong in Westminster Abbey at 5.00 pm on Thursday 22nd January 2015.

  Special Service Simon de Montfort Parliament Chapter House

• Thomas Thirlby

  Priest/Minister

  Thomas Thirlby (c.1500-1570) was consecrated the first and only Bishop of the new short-lived diocese of Westminster in December 1540.

• Sulcard

  Historian

  Sulcard was a monk at Westminster Abbey from around the 1050s and wrote a history of the monastery. He may have come from Rochester, Kent.

• Abbot Edwin

  Abbot and Priest/Minister

  Edwin was Abbot of Westminster from 1049-1071 and was a friend and adviser to Edward the Confessor. He was at the consecration of Edward’s Abbey.

• Walter Hines Page

  Diplomat

  In the vestibule of the Chapter House is a memorial to American Ambassador Walter Hines Page. He was ambassador in England during the Great War.

• James Russell Lowell

  Writer and Poet

  In the vestibule of the Chapter House is a stone tablet and stained glass window in memory of James Russell Lowell, American poet and writer.

• J.R. Clayton & Alfred Bell

  Artist

  John Richard Clayton (1827-1913) and Alfred Bell (1832-1895) designed several windows for Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's Church Westminster. Clayton also designed the memorials.

• Joan Howson

  Artist

  Joan Howson (1885-1964), stained glass artist, worked on the re-glazing of the windows in the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey after wartime bomb damage.