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| 1727 | George I |  |
| Hanover Buried in Leinschloss Church, 1st British monarch to be buried abroad since Richard I
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| 1737 | Caroline of Ansbach | |
| Nov Westminster Abbey Buried at Westminster Abbey. Handel composed an elaborate 10-section anthem for the occasion, "The ways of Zion do mourn / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline"
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| 1760 | George II | |
| 11th Nov Westminster Abbey George II is buried in Westminster Abbey
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| 1778 | Pitt the Elder, William | |
| Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminster Abbey
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| 1822 | Stewart | |
| Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminister Abbey
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| 1829 | Abbot, Charles | |
| Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminster Abbey
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| 1830 | George IV | |
| June Windsor Buried in St George's Chapel
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| 1834 | Malthus, Thomas Robert | |
| Bath Abbey Buried at Bath Abbey
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| 1837 | William IV | |
| July St George's Chp Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor
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| 1850 | Peel, Robert | |
| Drayton Buried in Drayton
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| 1852 | Wellesley, Arthur | |
| 18th Nov St Pauls Buried at St Pauls Cathedral
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| 1865 | Temple, Henry John | |
| Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminster Abbey
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| 1881 | Disraeli, Benjamin | |
| Hughenden Buried at Hughenden
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| 1898 | Gladstone, William Ewart | |
| 1st State funeral in Westminster Abbey since Pitt
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| Westminster Abbey Buried in Westminster Abbey
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| 1928 | Hardy, Thomas | |
| 16th Jan Stinsford Buried in Stinsford, Dorset
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| 1941 | Baden-Powell, Robert | |
| 8th Jan Westminster Abbey A Memorial service is held at Westminster Abby for Baden-Powell
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| 1965 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Jan Westminster Hall 350,000 people queued, most for three or four hours, to pay homage
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| Jan Westminster Hall Churhill's body lies in state at Westminster Hall
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| Jan Bladon Given a state funeral & buried less than 1 mile from his place of birth
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| 27th Jan Westminster Hall The lying-in-state commences 9:00am, Wednesday, January 27th for 3 days
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| 30th Jan Westminster Hall 9:35am the bearer party of Grenadier Guards removes the coffin from the Catafalque
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| 1965 | Elizabeth II | |
| 30th Jan London Announces Churchill's body will lie-in-state at the Palace of Westminster for 3 days
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| 1970 | Dowding, Hugh | |
| Feb Westminster Abbey At a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, his ashes were laid to rest below the battle of Britain Memorial Window in the Royal Air Force chapel
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| 1972 | Edward VIII | |
| Windsor Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson are buried on the grounds of Windsor Castle
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| 1977 | Bolan, Marc | |
| Sep At Bolan's funeral, attended by the likes of Bowie and Rod Stewart, a swan-shaped floral tribute is displayed outside the service in recognition of his breakthrough hit single
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| 1980 | Sellars, Peter | |
| Sellers requested that the Glenn Miller song "In the Mood" be played at his funeral, the request is considered his last touch of humour, as his friends knew he hated the song
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| 1984 | Edward the Martyr | |
| 15th Sep Brookwood Re-interred in a Russian orthodox chapel at Brookwood cemetery, Surrey
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| 16th Sep Croydon Edward's bones are returned to the custody of the Midland Bank where they remain
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| 1984 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 9th Feb Attends Andropov's funeral in the USSR
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| 1985 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 11th Mar Moscow Attends Chernenko's funeral in Moscow
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| 1991 | Heffer, Eric | |
| July London Heffer has a memorial service at St Margaret's, Westminster, attended by Thatcher
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| 1991 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| July London Heffer has a memorial service at St Margaret's, Westminster, attended by Thatcher
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| 1997 | Dianna | |
| 6th Sep Althorp Park Diana is buried, The Prince of Wales, her sons, her mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman are present, in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Park's Pleasure Garden
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| 6th Sep Dianna's funeral is broadcast and watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide
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