the Abbey, monastic life and the Abbey's impact on the community, the architecture and sculptures of the buildings, and the role of the Abbey in present times. The Discovery Centre replaces the previous Heritage Museum. Burials James Montague, bishop (c. 1568–1618) Wolfran Cornewall, Royal Navy captain (1658–1720) Sir Henry Johnson, 1st Baronet, general (1748–1835) William Bingham, American senator (1752–1804) William Wyatt Dimond, actor-manager (c. 1752–1812) John Sibthorp, botanist (1758–1796) Thomas Robert Malthus, political economist who inspired Charles Darwin (1766–1834) See also List of former cathedrals in Great Britain List of organists and assistant organists of Bath Abbey List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References Bibliography External links Bath Abbey 7th-century establishments in England 1539 disestablishments in England 16th-century Church of England church buildings Abbey Anglo-Saxon monastic houses Benedictine monasteries in England Church of England church buildings in Bath and North East Somerset Abbey Grade I listed churches in Somerset Monasteries in Somerset Former cathedrals in England Museums in Bath, Somerset Religious museums in England Christian monasteries established in the 7th century Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation William II of England Churches completed in 675 7th-century church buildings in England