Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery, 2005

Kensal Green Cemetery (dt. Cemetery Kensal Green ) is a cemetery in London's Kensal Green and the first and oldest commercial cemetery in London . The cemetery was opened as a result of an Act of Parliament to remove the shortage of space at funerals in London in 1833. The rapid growth of the city and the high mortality rate had previously led to unsustainable hygienic conditions in the vicinity of the many small and overcrowded burial sites. Two years earlier, the General Cemetery Company had acquired land to build a cemetery. The facility was built in the Greek Revival style based on a design by John Griffith .

A voluntary organization - The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery - has been taking care of the preservation of the historical complex since June 13, 1989.

Graves of famous people

Henry Ainley (1879–1945), actor William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), writer Thomas Allom (1804–1872), architect Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857), sculptor and photographer. Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician Harry Baden-Powell (1796-1860), mathematician Betsy Balcombe (1802–1871), confidante of Napoleon Bonaparte Pete Burns (1959-2016), singer and tv personality Michael William Balfe (1808–1870), composer Frederick Settle Barff (1822–1866), chemist James Barry (1795-1865), physician Julius Benedict (1804–1885), composer Charles Blondin (1824–1897), acrobat and tightrope walker George Ferguson Bowen (1821–1899), Hong Kong Governor John Braham (1774-1856), singer George Bridgetower (1778–1860), violin virtuoso, friend of Beethoven Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795–1840), chess master Robert Brown (1773-1858), botanist Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), engineer, son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849), engineer, father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844), painter Lady Maria Callcott (1785–1842), travel writer and botanist John Edward Carew (1785–1868), sculptor Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840), physician Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921), banker Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), writer Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (1838–1903), politician Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843), Prince Willie Edouin (1841–1908), actor and theater director Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), botanist Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824-1857), composer Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801-1854), actress Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865), painter Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian poet Marcus Garvey (1887-1940). Sophia of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1777–1848), princess Philip Hardwick (1792-1870), architect Philip Charles Hardwick (1822-1892), architect Catherine Hayes (1818–1861), opera singer John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), English statesman Thomas Hood (1799-1845), poet and journalist

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), writer Charles Kemble (1775-1854), actor Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893), actress Halina Korn (1902–1978), painter and sculptor John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), Scottish author John Graham Lough (1789–1876), sculptor Alexander McDonnell (1798-1835), chess master Richard Graves MacDonnell (1814–1881), Hong Kong Governor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), actor Edward Maltby (1779-1859), Bishop of Durham Robert James Mann (1817–1886), physician, scientist and writer Florence Marryat (1833–1899), writer and actress Kitty Melrose (1883–1912), actress Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), historian John Trivett Nettleship (1841-1902), painter Robert Owen (1771–1858), entrepreneur and social reformer Julia Pardoe (1804–1862), writer Harold Pinter (1930–2008), author and actor Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), writer Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883), writer Henry Sandham (1842-1910), painter Sir William Siemens (1823–1883; Carl Wilhelm S.), industrialist Robert William Sievier (1794–1865), sculptor Robert Smirke (1753–1845), painter John Mark Frederick Smith (1790–1874), General Howard Staunton (1810-1874), chess player Paul Edmund de Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish researcher Dwarkanath Tagore (1794–1846), Bengali / Indian industrialist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), writer Lydia Thompson (1838–1908), dancer Therese Tietjens (1831–1877), opera singer Steve Peregrin Took (1949–1980), musician, co-founder of T. Rex Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), writer Cecilia Underwood, 1st Duchess of Inverness (1785–1873), wife of Prince Augustus Frederick William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865), composer Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), physician, founder of The Lancet John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), painter John Whichcord Jr. (1823-1885), architect Jane Williams (1798-1884), (platonic) friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley Erasmus Augustus Worthington (1791–1880), painter

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Footnotes / individual references

1. ↑ exhumed and transferred to Jamaica.
2. ↑ Memorial plaque that, according to the cemetery rules, indicates that the ashes were scattered here. Freddie Mercury's grave discovered on www.bild.de; Retrieved February 27, 2013
3. ↑ Just a memorial stone
4. ↑ Exhumed in 1997 and transferred to Poland.

See also

• List of burial places of famous people

Web links

Commons : Kensal Green Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kensal Green Cemetery homepage
• Friends of the Cemetery.
• London's Victorian Garden Cemeteries.
• Current pictures and information about the cemetery.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '43 "  N , 0 ° 13' 26.8"  W.