Who was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey?
Poets' Corner Gaskell was celebrated with the dedication of a panel in the memorial window. On 6 December 2011, former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was commemorated with a floor stone. On 22 November 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of his death, writer C. S. Lewis was commemorated with a memorial floor stone. The poet Philip Larkin was commemorated with a floor stone dedicated on 2 December 2016. The first poet interred in Poets' Corner, Geoffrey Chaucer, owed his 1400 burial in the Abbey (in front of St. Benedict's Chapel) more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than
William Mason (poet) carriage. He was able to officiate in his church at Aston on the following Sunday. He died from the injury on the following Wednesday, 7 April. Memorial inscriptions for Mason may be found in the church at Aston near Rotherham where he was rector and at Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. A cenotaph was also erected by Countess Harcourt in the gardens at Nuneham Courtenay. He was the guardian of Francis Ferrand Foljambe during his minority. William Mason (poet) William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English divine, poet, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener He