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Highgate Cemetery

May 19, 2023

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries.[1] Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[2] It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.

Highgate Cemetery
Highgate (East) Cemetery (c. 2010)
Details
Established1839; 184 years ago (1839)
Location
Swain's Lane, London, N6 6PJ
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°34′01″N 0°08′49″W / 51.567°N 0.147°W / 51.567; -0.147Coordinates: 51°34′01″N 0°08′49″W / 51.567°N 0.147°W / 51.567; -0.147
Owned byFriends of Highgate Cemetery Trust
Size15 hectares (37 acres)
No. of graves53,000+
No. of interments170,000
Websitewww.highgatecemetery.org
Find a GraveEast, West

Location

The cemetery is in Highgate N6, next to Waterlow Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It comprises two sites, on either side of Swains Lane. The main gate is on Swains Lane just north of Oakshott Avenue. There is another, disused, gate on Chester Road. The nearest public transport (Transport for London) is the C11 bus, Brookfield Park stop, and Archway tube station.

History and setting

 
Tombs near the Circle of Lebanon crypts at the West Cemetery, Highgate, London.

The cemetery in its original form – the northwestern wooded area – opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries, now known as the "Magnificent Seven", around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary.

On Monday 20 May 1839, Highgate (West) Cemetery was dedicated to St. James[3] by the Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield, Lord Bishop of London. Fifteen acres (6 ha) were consecrated for the use of the Church of England, and two acres were set aside for Dissenters. Rights of burial were sold either for a limited period or in perpetuity. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street, Soho, on 26 May.

Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation[clarification needed] led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of Highgate hill, next to Waterlow Park. In 1854 a further 19 acres (8 ha) to the south east of the original area, across Swains Lane, was bought to form the eastern part of the cemetery; this opened in 1860. Both sides of the Cemetery are still used today for burials.

The cemetery's grounds are full of trees, shrubbery and wildflowers, most of which have been planted and grown without human influence.[clarification needed] The grounds are a haven for birds and small animals such as foxes. The Cemetery is now owned and maintained by a charitable trust, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, which was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West Cemeteries by 1981. In 1984 it published Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla by John Gay.[4]

Graves

West Cemetery

 
Entrance to the Egyptian Avenue, West Cemetery
 
Circle of Lebanon, West Cemetery

The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon (previously surmounted by a huge, 280 years old Cedar of Lebanon, which had to be cut down and replaced in August 2019) feature tombs, vaults and winding paths dug into hillsides. The Egyptian Avenue and the Columbarium are Grade I listed buildings.

Notable West Cemetery interments

East Cemetery

 
Tomb of Karl Marx, East Cemetery
 
Highgate Cemetery East (2010)
 
The grave of Caroline Tucker, Highgate Cemetery East
 
Highgate Cemetery East (2023)

Many famous or prominent people are buried on this side of Highgate cemetery; the most famous of which is arguably that of Karl Marx, whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965[7] and in 1970.[8] The tomb of Karl Marx is a Grade I listed building for reasons of historical importance. Fireman's corner is a monument erected in the East Cemetery by widows and orphans of members of the London Fire Brigade in 1934. There are 97 firemen buried here. The monument is cared for by the Brigade's Welfare Section.

Notable East Cemetery interments

War graves

The cemetery contains the graves of 318 Commonwealth service personnel maintained and registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, in both the East and West Cemeteries, 259 from the First World War and 59 from the Second. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected near the Cross of Sacrifice in the west cemetery.[11]

In popular culture

Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called occult past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "Highgate Vampire".

Gallery

References

  1. ^ . Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Highgate Cemetery (1000810)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ^ . Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  4. ^ "A Brief History of Highgate Cemetery", www.highgate-cemetery.org
  5. ^ GRO Register of Deaths: JUN qtr 1861 1a 174 St Geo Han Sq – Henry Gray
  6. ^ "DServe Archive Persons Show". .royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  7. ^ News
  8. ^ "Tomb raiders' failed attack on Marx grave", Camden New Journal, UK
  9. ^ "Farewell to YPG's Mehmet Aksoy in London". ANF. 11 November 2017.
  10. ^ Davis, Angela (20 June 2019). "Angela Davis praises CPUSA for its history "of militant struggle"". PeoplesWorld.org. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Cemetery Details: Highgate Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  12. ^ Niffenegger, Audrey (3 October 2009). "Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2009.

External links

  Media related to Highgate Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons

  • Official website
  • Highgate Cemetery at the NY Times

May 19, 2023
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Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London England There are approximately 170 000 people buried in around 53 000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries 1 Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens 2 It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London Highgate CemeteryHighgate East Cemetery c 2010 DetailsEstablished1839 184 years ago 1839 LocationSwain s Lane London N6 6PJCountryEnglandCoordinates51 34 01 N 0 08 49 W 51 567 N 0 147 W 51 567 0 147 Coordinates 51 34 01 N 0 08 49 W 51 567 N 0 147 W 51 567 0 147Owned byFriends of Highgate Cemetery TrustSize15 hectares 37 acres No of graves53 000 No of interments170 000Websitewww wbr highgatecemetery wbr orgFind a GraveEast West Contents 1 Location 2 History and setting 3 Graves 3 1 West Cemetery 3 1 1 Notable West Cemetery interments 3 2 East Cemetery 3 2 1 Notable East Cemetery interments 3 3 War graves 4 In popular culture 5 Gallery 6 References 7 External linksLocation EditThe cemetery is in Highgate N6 next to Waterlow Park in the London Borough of Camden It comprises two sites on either side of Swains Lane The main gate is on Swains Lane just north of Oakshott Avenue There is another disused gate on Chester Road The nearest public transport Transport for London is the C11 bus Brookfield Park stop and Archway tube station History and setting Edit Tombs near the Circle of Lebanon crypts at the West Cemetery Highgate London The cemetery in its original form the northwestern wooded area opened in 1839 as part of a plan to provide seven large modern cemeteries now known as the Magnificent Seven around the outside of central London The inner city cemeteries mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary On Monday 20 May 1839 Highgate West Cemetery was dedicated to St James 3 by the Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield Lord Bishop of London Fifteen acres 6 ha were consecrated for the use of the Church of England and two acres were set aside for Dissenters Rights of burial were sold either for a limited period or in perpetuity The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street Soho on 26 May Highgate like the others of the Magnificent Seven soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation clarification needed led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings It occupies a spectacular south facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of Highgate hill next to Waterlow Park In 1854 a further 19 acres 8 ha to the south east of the original area across Swains Lane was bought to form the eastern part of the cemetery this opened in 1860 Both sides of the Cemetery are still used today for burials The cemetery s grounds are full of trees shrubbery and wildflowers most of which have been planted and grown without human influence clarification needed The grounds are a haven for birds and small animals such as foxes The Cemetery is now owned and maintained by a charitable trust the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust which was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West Cemeteries by 1981 In 1984 it published Highgate Cemetery Victorian Valhalla by John Gay 4 Graves EditWest Cemetery Edit Entrance to the Egyptian Avenue West Cemetery Circle of Lebanon West Cemetery The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon previously surmounted by a huge 280 years old Cedar of Lebanon which had to be cut down and replaced in August 2019 feature tombs vaults and winding paths dug into hillsides The Egyptian Avenue and the Columbarium are Grade I listed buildings Notable West Cemetery interments Edit Henry Alken painter engraver and illustrator of sporting and coaching scenes Jane Arden Welsh born film director actor screenwriter playwright songwriter and poet John Atcheler Horse slaughterer to Queen Victoria Edward Hodges Baily sculptor Beryl Bainbridge author Abraham Dee Bartlett zoologist superintendent of the London Zoo known for selling the popular African elephant Jumbo to P T Barnum Julius Beer and family members owner of The Observer Francis Bedford landscape photographer William Belt barrister and antiquarian best known for his eccentric behaviour Mary Matilda Betham diarist poet woman of letters and miniature portrait painter Eugenius Birch seaside architect and noted designer of promenade piers Edward Blore architect known for his work on Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey Edwin Brett publisher and pioneer of serialised sensational weekly fiction and penny dreadfuls Jacob Bronowski scientist creator of the television series The Ascent of Man James Bunstone Bunning City Architect to the City of London Robert William Buss artist and illustrator Edward Dundas Butler translator and senior librarian at the Department of Printed Books British Museum Edward Cardwell 1st Viscount Cardwell prominent politician in the Peelite and Liberal parties best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for War William Benjamin Carpenter physician invertebrate zoologist and physiologist Joseph William Comyns Carr drama and art critic gallery director author poet playwright and theatre manager John James Chalon Swiss painter Robert Caesar Childers scholar of the Orient and writer Edmund Chipp organist and composer Charles Chubb lock and safe manufacturer Antoine Claudet pioneering early photographer honoured by Queen Victoria as Photographer in ordinary John Cross English artist Philip Conisbee art historian and curator Abraham Cooper animal and battle painter Thomas Frederick Cooper watchmaker John Singleton Copley Lord Chancellor and son of the American painter John Singleton Copley Sir Charles Cowper Premier of New South Wales Australia Addison Cresswell comedians agent and producer George Baden Crawley civil engineer and railway builder Charles Cruft founder of Crufts dog show Isaac Robert Cruikshank caricaturist illustrator portrait miniaturist and brother of George Cruikshank George Dalziel engraver who with his siblings ran one of the most prolific Victorian engraving firms George Darnell schoolmaster and author of Darnell s Copybooks David Devant theatrical magician Alfred Lamert Dickens the younger brother of Charles Dickens Catherine Dickens wife of Charles Dickens John and Elizabeth Dickens parents of Charles Dickens Fanny Dickens elder sister of Charles Dickens William Hepworth Dixon historian and traveller Also active in organizing London s Great Exhibition of 1851 The Druce family vault one of whose members was falsely alleged to have been the 5th Duke of Portland Herbert Benjamin Edwardes Administrator and soldier known as the Hero of Multan Joseph Edwards sculptor Welsh sculptor Thomas Edwards author Caerfallwch Welsh author and lexicographer Ugo Ehiogu footballer James Harington Evans Baptist pastor of the John Street Chapel Benjamin Hawes 19th century British Whig politician known in UK parliament as Hawes the Soap Boiler Michael Faraday chemist and physicist with his wife Sarah in the Dissenters section Sir Charles Fellows archaeologist and explorer known for his numerous expeditions in what is present day Turkey Charles Drury Edward Fortnum art collector and benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum Lucian Freud painter grandson of Sigmund Freud and elder brother of Clement Freud John Galsworthy author and Nobel Prize winner cenotaph he was cremated and his ashes scattered Stephen Geary architect most notably of Highgate Cemetery John Gibbons ironmaster and art patron Stella Gibbons novelist author of Cold Comfort Farm Margaret Gillies Scottish painter known for her miniature portraits including of one of Charles Dickens John William Griffith architect of Kensal Green Cemetery Henry Gray anatomist and surgeon 5 6 author of Gray s Anatomy Radclyffe Hall author of The Well of Loneliness and other novels William Hall founder with Edward Chapman of publishers Chapman amp Hall William Dobinson Halliburton physiologist noted for being one of the founders of the science of biochemistry Philip Harben English cook regarded as the first TV celebrity chef Sir Charles Augustus Hartley eminent British civil engineer known as the father of the Danube George Edwards Hering landscape painter Edwin Hill older brother of Rowland Hill and inventor of the first letter scale and a mechanical system to make envelopes Frank Holl Royal portraitist Ian Holm English Actor James Holman 19th century adventurer known as the Blind Traveller Surgeon General Sir Anthony Home Victoria Cross recipient from Indian Mutiny Theodore Hope British colonial administrator and writer Thomas Hopley headmaster who beat one of his pupils to death William Hosking first Professor of Architecture at King s College London and architect of Abney Park Cemetery Bob Hoskins actor Georgiana Houghton British artist and spiritualist medium David Edward Hughes FRS 19th century electrical engineer and inventor William Henry Hunt popular and widely collected painter of watercolours nicknamed Bird s Nest Hunt Sir John Hutton publisher of Sporting Life and Chairman of the London County Council Georges Jacobi composer conductor and musical director of the Alhambra Theatre Lisa Jardine historian Victor Kullberg one of the greatest marine clockmakers Thomas Landseer younger brother of Sir Edwin Landseer there is a cenotaph Edwin was buried in St Paul s Cathedral Sir Peter Laurie politician and Lord Mayor of London Douglas Lapraik shipowner and co founder of HSBC and the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Group Henry Lee surgeon pathologist and syphilologist Oswald Lewis MP and younger son of John Lewis founder of the chain of department stores Robert Liston surgeon Alexander Litvinenko Russian dissident murdered by poisoning in London Edward Lloyd influential newspaper publisher and founder of the Daily Chronicle James Locke a London draper credited with giving Tweed its name William Lovett Chartist Samuel Lucas editor of the Morning Star journalist and abolitionist Archibald Maclaine British Army officer John Maple founder of the furniture makers Maple amp Co Hugh Mackay Matheson industrialist and founder of Matheson amp Company and the Rio Tinto Group Frederick Denison Maurice English Anglican theologian prolific author and one of the founders of Christian socialism Michael Meacher academic and Labour Party politician George Michael singer songwriter music producer and philanthropist buried beside his mother and sister Barbara Mills ashes first female Director of Public Prosecutions Frederick Akbar Mahomed internationally known British physician Jude Moraes landscape gardener writer and broadcaster Nicholas Mosley novelist and biographer of his father Oswald Mosley Edward Moxhay shoemaker biscuit maker and property speculator best known for his involvement in the landmark English land law case Tulk v Moxhay Elizabeth de Munck mother of celebrated soprano Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori Allan in grave with large carving of pelican in piety General Sir Archibald James Murray Chief of Staff to the WW1 British Expeditionary Force Walter Neurath Publisher and founder of Thames and Hudson Henry Newton painter and co founder of Winsor amp Newton Samuel Noble English engraver and minister of the New Church George Osbaldeston known as Squire Osbaldeston sportsman gambler and Member of Parliament MP Sherard Osborn Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer Frederick William Pavy physician and physiologist William Payne actor dancer and pantomimist Thomas Ashburton Picken watercolourist engraver and lithographer Frances Polidori Rossetti mother of Dante Gabriel Christina and William Michael Rossetti Samuel Phelps Shakespearian actor and manager of Sadler s Wells Theatre Owen Roberts educator pioneer of technical education great grandfather of Antony Armstrong Jones 1st Earl of Snowdon husband of Princess Margaret James Robinson dentist first person to carry out general anaesthesia in Britain Peter Robinson founder of the Peter Robinson department store at Oxford Circus London Sir William Charles Ross portrait and portrait miniature painter Christina Rossetti poet Gabriele Rossetti Italian nationalist and scholar Father of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti co founder of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood Tom Sayers pugilist his tomb is guarded by the stone image of his mastiff Lion who was chief mourner at his funeral Henry Young Darracott Scott responsible for the design and construction of the Royal Albert Hall Sir Peter Shepheard architect and landscape architect President of the RIBA Architectural Association Landscape Institute and the Royal Fine Art Commission Elizabeth Siddal wife and model of artist poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and model for the painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais Jean Simmons actress William Simpson war artist and correspondent Sir John Smale Chief Justice of Hong Kong Tom Smith inventor of the Christmas cracker Charles Green Spencer pioneer aviator and balloon manufacturer Alfred Stevens sculptor painter and designer Walter Fryer Stocks prolific landscape painter Sir Henry Knight Storks soldier MP and colonial administrator Anna Swanwick author and feminist who assisted in the founding of Girton College Cambridge and Somerville Hall Oxford Alfred Swaine Taylor toxicologist forensic scientist expert witness Frederick Tennyson poet older brother of Alfred Lord Tennyson Samuel Sanders Teulon prolific Gothic Revival architect Jeanette Threlfall hymnwriter and poet Charles Turner mezzotint engraver who collaborated with J M W Turner Andrew Ure Scottish physician known for his galvanism experimentation founder of the University of Strathclyde John Vandenhoff leading Victorian actor Henry Vaughan art collector who gave one of Britain s most popular paintings John Constable s The Hay Wain to the National Gallery Emilie Ashurst Venturi writer translator and women s rights campaigner Arthur Waley translator and scholar of the Orient George Wallis First Keeper of the Fine Art Collection at the Victoria amp Albert Museum Mary Warner actress and theatre manager Augusta Webster poet dramatist essayist translator and advocate of women s suffrage Henry White lawyer and gifted landscape photographer Brodie McGhie Willcox founder of the P amp O Shipping Line Henry Willis foremost organ builder of the Victorian era Hugh Wilson RAF test pilot George Wombwell menagerie exhibitor Ellen Wood author known as Mrs Henry Wood there is also a plaque for her in Worcester Cathedral Adam Worth criminal mastermind Possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes nemesis Professor Moriarty originally buried in a pauper s grave under the name Henry J Raymond Sir William Henry Wyatt long serving chairman of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch Southgate Patrick Wymark actor Arthur Wynn British civil servant who ran a spy ring for the KGB Joseph Warren Zambra scientific instrument makerEast Cemetery Edit Tomb of Karl Marx East Cemetery Highgate Cemetery East 2010 The grave of Caroline Tucker Highgate Cemetery East Highgate Cemetery East 2023 Many famous or prominent people are buried on this side of Highgate cemetery the most famous of which is arguably that of Karl Marx whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965 7 and in 1970 8 The tomb of Karl Marx is a Grade I listed building for reasons of historical importance Fireman s corner is a monument erected in the East Cemetery by widows and orphans of members of the London Fire Brigade in 1934 There are 97 firemen buried here The monument is cared for by the Brigade s Welfare Section Notable East Cemetery interments Edit David Abbott advertising executive and founder of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO who was widely regarded as one of the finest copywriters of his generation Douglas Adams author of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy and other novels Mehmet Aksoy press officer for the Kurdish YPG killed by ISIS in 2017 9 Wilkie Bard popular vaudeville and music hall entertainer and recording artist Farzad Bazoft journalist executed by Saddam Hussein s regime Jeremy Beadle writer television presenter and curator of oddities Adolf Beck the Adolph Beck case was a celebrated case of mistaken identity Hercules Bellville American film producer William Betty popular child actor of the early nineteenth century Emily Blatchley pioneering Protestant Christian missionary to China Kate Booth English Salvationist and evangelist Oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth She was also known as la Marechale William Bradbury printer and publisher and co founder of Bradbury and Evans Frederick Broome colonial administrator of several British colonies The Western Australian towns of Broome and Broomehill are named after him George Barclay Bruce world renown railway engineer and president of the Institution of Civil Engineers Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton 1st Baronet Scottish physician who is most closely associated with the treatment of angina pectoris James Caird Scottish agricultural writer and politician Patrick Caulfield painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses Douglas Cleverdon radio producer and bookseller William Kingdon Clifford with his wife Lucy mathematician and philosopher Lucy Lane Clifford novelist and journalist wife of William Kingdon Clifford Yusuf Dadoo South African anti apartheid activist Lewis Foreman Day influential artist in the Arts and Crafts movement Sir Davison Dalziel Bt British newspaper owner and Conservative Party politician Massive mausoleum near the entrance Elyse Dodgson theatre producer Neave Brown American British architectFritz Dupre iron and manganese ore merchant known as the Manganese Ore King Francis Elgar naval architect George Eliot Mary Ann Evans the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross novelist common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him Edwin Wilkins Field lawyer who devoted much of his life to law reform Paul Foot campaigning journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot Lydia Folger Fowler pioneering American physician and first American born woman to earn a medical degree William Foyle co founder of Foyles William Friese Greene cinema pioneer and his son Claude Friese Greene Lou Gish actress daughter of Sheila Gish Sheila Gish actress Philip Gould British political consultant and former advertising executive closely linked to the Labour Party Robert Grant VC soldier and police constable Robert Edmond Grant Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London who gave his name to the Grant Museum of Zoology Charles Green the United Kingdom s most famous balloonist of the 19th century Leon Griffiths creator of Minder Stuart Hall Jamaican born British Marxist sociologist cultural theorist and political activist Harrison Hayter railway harbour and dock engineer Mansoor Hekmat Communist leader and founder of the Worker Communist Party of Iran and Worker Communist Party of Iraq Eric Hobsbawm historian Austin Holyoake printer publisher freethinker and brother of the more widely known George Holyoake George Holyoake Birmingham born social reformer and founder of the Cooperative Movement George Honey popular Victorian actor and comedian Alan Howard actor Leslie Hutchinson Cabaret star of the 1920s and 1930s Jabez Inwards popular Victorian temperance lecturer and phrenologist Georges Jacobi composer and conductor Bert Jansch Scottish folk musician Claudia Jones Trinidadian born Communist and fighter for civil rights founder of The West Indian Gazette and the Notting Hill Carnival 10 George Goodwin Kilburne genre painter David Kirkaldy Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing Anatoly Kuznetsov Soviet writer author of the document in the form of a novel Babi Yar Liza Lehmann operatic soprano and composer daughter of Rudolf Lehmann Rudolf Lehmann portrait artist and father of Liza Lehmann Andrea Levy novelist best known for the novels Small Island and The Long Song George Henry Lewes English philosopher and critic common law husband of George Eliot and buried next to her Roger Lloyd Pack British actor known for Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar of Dibley John Lobb Society bootmaker Charles Lucy British artist whose most notable painting was The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Haldane MacFall art critic art historian book illustrator and novelist Anna Mahler sculptor and daughter of Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler Chris Martin Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister James Martineau religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism Karl Marx philosopher historian sociologist and economist memorial after his reburial with other family members Frank Matcham theatre architect Carl Mayer Austro German screenwriter of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and Sunrise A Song of Two Humans Thomas McKinnon Wood Liberal politician and Secretary of State for Scotland Malcolm McLaren punk impresario and original manager of the Sex Pistols Ralph Miliband left wing political theorist father of David Miliband and Ed Miliband Alan Milward influential historian William Henry Monk composer of the music to Abide with Me Charles Morton music hall and theatre manager who became known as the Father of the Halls Sidney Nolan Australian artist George Josiah Palmer founder and editor of Church Times Charles J Phipps theatre architect Tim Pigott Smith actor Dachine Rainer poet and anarchist Corin Redgrave actor and political activist Bruce Reynolds criminal mastermind of the Great Train Robbery 1963 Ralph Richardson actor George Richmond painter and portraitist Jose Carlos Rodrigues Brazilian journalist financial expert and philanthropist Ernestine Rose suffragist abolitionist and freethinker James Samuel Risien Russell Guyanese British physician neurologist professor of medicine and professor of medical jurisprudence Raphael Samuel Marxist historian James Sceats Distiller British distiller wine amp spirit and creator of El Bart Gin Anthony Shaffer playwright screenwriter and novelist Peter Shaffer playwright and screenwriter Sir Eyre Massey Shaw first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Alan Sillitoe English postmodern novelist poet and playwright James Smetham Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood painter engraver and follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sir Donald Alexander Smith Canadian railway financier and diplomat Herbert Spencer evolutionary biologist sociologist and laissez faire economic philosopher Sir Leslie Stephen critic first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell members of the Bloomsbury Group Julia Princep Stephen Pre Raphaelite model and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell members of the Bloomsbury Group William Heath Strange physician and founder of the Hampstead General Hospital now the Royal Free Hospital Lucien Stryk American poet teacher and translator of Zen poetry Thomas Tate mathematician and scientific educator and writer Sir George Thalben Ball English organist choirmaster and composer Bob Thoms the greatest Victorian cricket umpire James Thomson Victorian poet best known for The City of Dreadful Night Storm Thorgerson graphic designer Malcolm Tierney actor Feliks Topolski Polish born British expressionist painter Edward Truelove radical publisher and freethinker Peter Ucko influential English archaeologist Max Wall comedian and entertainer Simon Ward actor Peter Cathcart Wason pioneering psychologist Sir Lawrence Weaver architectural writer editor of Country Life and organiser of the British Empire Exhibition Opal Whiteley American writer Colin St John Wilson architect most notably of the new British Library in London lecturer and author Joseph Wolf natural history illustrator and pioneer in wildlife art Edward Richard Woodham survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade Michael Young Baron Young of Dartington politician social activist and consumer champion War graves Edit The cemetery contains the graves of 318 Commonwealth service personnel maintained and registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in both the East and West Cemeteries 259 from the First World War and 59 from the Second Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected near the Cross of Sacrifice in the west cemetery 11 In popular culture EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so called occult past particularly as being the alleged site of the Highgate Vampire Several of John Galsworthy s Forsyte Saga novels refer to Highgate Cemetery as the last resting place of the Forsytes for example Chapter XI The Last of the Forsytes in To Let 1921 Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films including Taste the Blood of Dracula 1970 Tales from the Crypt 1972 and From Beyond the Grave 1974 In the BBC TV series Porridge Fletcher claims that his eldest daughter Ingrid was conceived on Karl Marx s tomb Herbert Smith is shadowed through Highgate Cemetery in Visibility a murder espionage thriller by Boris Starling Highgate Cemetery is the was the subject of episode 14 of the How Haunted podcast Highgate Cemetery is the sixth level of the Nightmare Creatures game In Len Deighton s alternative history novel SS GB and its TV adaptation a bomb is detonated in the tomb of Karl Marx when his remains are exhumed by German occupation forces to be presented to the Soviet Union Fred Vargas s novel Un lieu incertain starts in the cemetery Barbara Hambly s vampire novel Those Who Hunt the Night has the main characters visiting Highgate at one point to examine the remains of a vampire who had taken over an abandoned tomb Stated in the acknowledgments as the inspiration for the setting of Neil Gaiman s The Graveyard Book Audrey Niffenegger s book Her Fearful Symmetry 2009 is set around Highgate Cemetery she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book 12 In the novel Double or Die 2007 a part of the Young Bond series Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill Bond in the cemetery Tracy Chevalier s book Falling Angels 2002 was set in and around Highgate Cemetery The two main protagonists met there as children while their parents were visiting adjacent family graves and they continued to enjoy meeting up and playing there The movie Hampstead 2017 features a few scenes in the cemetery The climax of a novel by John Steele Seven Skins 2018 was set in the Egyptian Avenue and Circle of Lebanon among other locations in the West Cemetery The movie Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018 features scenes towards the end of the film in the cemetery before the famous Cedar tree was removed In the novel The Ink Black Heart 2022 the cemetery is an important location both in real life plot and in virtual online game Gallery Edit Carl Rosa grave Mary Nichols and The Sleeping Angel Highgate Cemetery The grave of Bruce Reynolds The tomb of Tom Sayers The grave of Patrick Caulfield RA The grave of Mansoor Hekmat The grave of Anna Mahler The grave of Yusuf Dadoo The grave of Eric Hobsbawm The grave of Jeremy Beadle Grave of William Friese Greene by Lutyens East Cemetery Feliks Nowosielski member of titled family of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth one of Poland s independence founding fathers was a political activist known for organising the European and Polish Uprisings in the early 19th References Edit Frequently Asked Questions Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery Archived from the original on 16 February 2013 Retrieved 21 August 2014 Historic England Highgate Cemetery 1000810 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 21 June 2017 History Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery Archived from the original on 24 January 2017 Retrieved 21 August 2014 A Brief History of Highgate Cemetery www highgate cemetery org GRO Register of Deaths JUN qtr 1861 1a 174 St Geo Han Sq Henry Gray DServe Archive Persons Show royalsociety org Archived from the original on 15 April 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 News Tomb raiders failed attack on Marx grave Camden New Journal UK Farewell to YPG s Mehmet Aksoy in London ANF 11 November 2017 Davis Angela 20 June 2019 Angela Davis praises CPUSA for its history of militant struggle PeoplesWorld org Retrieved 20 June 2019 Cemetery Details Highgate Cemetery Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission Retrieved 21 August 2014 Niffenegger Audrey 3 October 2009 Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery The Guardian Retrieved 3 October 2009 External links Edit Media related to Highgate Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons Official website Highgate Cemetery at the NY Times Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Highgate Cemetery amp oldid 1154042905, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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