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Among the several memorial windows of the church the most
interesting is that at the west of the south aisle, comprising three
subjects, erected in memory of Edward Alleyne, the founder of
Dulwich College. The earliest monument now existing is of Thomas
Busby, who died in 1575. On the west wall, at the end of the north
aisle, is a tablet commemorating the martyrologist John Foxe, who
died in the parish in 1587. Sir Martin Frobisher was buried here,
but it was not till 1888 that a monument was erected to his memory,
on the eastern part of the south wall. On the same wall, farther
west, John Speed is commemorated, author of various works dealing
with the history of Great Britain. The chief interest attaching to
this church is the fact that in it John Milton was buried in 1674;
there is a stone commemorating him. In 1793 a monument in the shape
of a bust was erected to him at the expense of Samuel Whitbread, and
in 1862 a cenotaph designed by Edmund Woodthorpe was placed in the
south aisle. The church contains numerous other monuments, a great
many of which have a considerable degree of interest; many of them
have been erected to the memory of benefactors and vicars. It was
here that the wedding of Oliver Cromwell was solemnised in 1620; the
register also contains entries to another family whose name is also
linked with Milton’s—that of the Egerton’s, Earls of Bridgewater.
The greatest of the benefactors recorded by Stow seems to have been
Throckmorton Trotman, who gave to the parish £547 in all. In later
times, Sir William Staines, Lord Mayor in 1800, was a liberal donor,
founding and endowing four almshouses for decayed parishioners; also
the Rev. Frederick W. Blomberg, D.D., vicar of this church in 1833.
There was a school for 150 boys in the Freedom; also another for 50
girls, supported by the donation of the Lady Eleanor Holles, the
Haberdashers’ Free School. There were six almshouses, founded by Mr.
Allen, also the Lorrimer’s almshouses.
John Buckeridge (d. 1631), Bishop of Rochester, was vicar here; also
William Fuller (d. 1659), Dean of Durham; Lancelot Andrewes
(1555-1626), Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester; John Rogers,
(1679-1729), chaplain to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George
II.); John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York; William H. Hale
(1795-1870), Master of Charterhouse.
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