Wolvercote Cemetery

The grave of J. R. R. and Edith Tolkien

Wolvercote Cemetery is close to the north Oxford suburb of Wolvercote off the Banbury Road. Unusually, this single cemetery is divided into areas to accommodate graves of the Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as all categories of Christians. Many Russians, Poles and other East Europeans who did not belong to Oxford parishes, are buried here. It is a working cemetery and there are more than 15,000 people buried here.

Selected burials

The following people are buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, many academics at Oxford University:

• Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), philosopher.
• E. J. Bowen, chemist.
• Sir Thomas Chapman, the 7th Baronet of Westmeath in Ireland, and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. Lawrence.
• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of Middle Eastern history.
• Elizabeth Jennings, poet.
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), historian.
• James Legge, Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.
• Eleanor Constance Lodge, historian.
• James Murray, lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
• Dimitri Obolensky, Russian prince and Oxford professor.
• John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong.
• J. R. R. Tolkien, author and academic, together with his wife Edith.
• John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003), eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien.

See also

• Holywell Cemetery
• St Sepulchre's Cemetery

External links

• Find A Grave — Wolvercote Cemetery including famous graves