Which London church hosted Goodall's 1964 marriage to Hugo van Lawick?

Chelsea Old Church hosted Jane Goodall’s 28 March 1964 marriage to wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick.

The London wedding joined two figures whose careers were closely connected to wildlife filmmaking and research. Van Lawick, a Dutch nobleman and photographer, had been sent to document Goodall’s chimpanzee studies at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Their professional partnership became a marriage, and Goodall was known during it as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall.

The church is formally the Old Church of Chelsea, a historic Anglican church beside the River Thames. It is often confused with grander London landmarks such as Westminster Abbey or St Paul’s Cathedral, but neither hosted this wedding. Goodall and van Lawick later had a son, Hugo, nicknamed “Grub,” in 1967, and divorced in 1974.

Goodall married Derek Bryceson the following year. He died in 1980, after which she did not remarry.