Westminster

Queen of England as the wife of Edward IV. In 1470, during the Wars of the Roses, she took sanctuary at Westminster Abbey and gave birth to her son Edward V in the abbot's house.

Born Sarah Rowsell, she was the wife of the architect Charles Barry. On 27 April 1840 she laid the first stone of the new Palace of Westminster.

A novelist, diarist and playwright, also known as Madame d'Arblay. She lived in Poland Street, Soho, when she was young, and D'Arblay Street was named after her in 1909.

As a child she knew Lewis Carroll, and one of the stories he told her became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). When she was born, her father was Headmaster of Westminster School. She married Reginald Hargreaves in Westminster Abbey in 1880.

A theatre producer and manager, born in Marylebone. She ran the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells theatres, and the opera, theatre and ballet companies she ran grew into the English National Opera, the English National Theatre and The Royal Ballet.

She founded the Colony Club, also called the Colony Room, at 41 Dean Street, Soho, in 1948. It stayed there until 2008. She was also an artist's model: the painter Francis Bacon painted her several times.

An actress, dancer and singer who became famous in the 1920s and 1930s, in stage musicals and films such as Evergreen. She was born in a flat above a butcher's shop at 94 Berwick Street, Soho.

In 1980 she, Jennifer Saunders and a few other alternative comedians started a comedy club called 'The Comic Strip' at a Soho theatre, before the TV series The Comic Strip Presents on Channel 4.

When Henry VII founded an almshouse near the abbey in 1502, it had twelve almsmen and three almswomen, who had been minor court officials and had retired because of age or disability.

Suffragettes held 'Prayers For Prisoners' protests in the abbey in 1913 and 1914.