John Stow (1525-1605) was a historian best known for his Survey of London.
He is buried in the church of St Andrew Undershaft, where there is also a statue of him holding a quill. Each year, the Lord Mayor and a distinguished historian place a new quill in Stow's stone hand, a token of the fact that the writing of London's history will never come to an end.
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