the Church of England's Diocese of London. It is currently used by London's German-speaking Swiss community, and is also the official church in London of the government of British Columbia, Canada. The 2013 boundary changes to the City's wards kept the church within Langbourn, despite the surrounding buildings being transferred to Candlewick and Walbrook wards, because of the church's strong connections with the ward. Notable people associated with the church Sir Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor (1545-46) and Mint Master, was married and buried here, and his children and grandchildren baptized. Thomas Kyd, Elizabethan dramatist, was baptised here; his father Francis was also a churchwarden. Josias Shute was rector here from 1611. Ralph Robinson was presbyterian minister here in the 1640s. William Owtram was rector here. Thomas Busby the composer was organist here from 1798. John Newton, evangelical, anti-slavery campaigner and hymnist, was incumbent here from 1780 to 1807. William Wilberforce, anti-slavery campaigner, worshipped here. Edward Lloyd, founder of Lloyd's of London, is memorialised here. William Josiah Irons the theologian was rector here from 1872. Sir William Phips was buried here.18 February 1694/5 Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, noted American colonial woman, married William Hutchinson here in 1612. Thomas Ritchie, born 23 March 1809, a founder of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, was baptised here. Literary reference T. S. Eliot refers to this church in a famous passage of his 1922 poem The Waste Land, Part 1, 'The Burial of the Dead': A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying, "Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! In his notes to the poem Eliot remarks that the "dead sound on the final stroke of nine" was "A phenomenon which I have often noticed." St Mary Woolnoth is an important historical site in Peter Ackroyd's 1985 novel Hawksmoor where it is the scene of one of a series of murders all taking place at churches redesigned by Nicholas Hawksmoor, who is given the fictional name Nicholas Dyer. See also List of churches in London Notes External links St Margaret Lothbury