Nunhead Cemetery
Nunhead Cemetery - also All Saints' Cemetery - is one of those cemeteries that are now referred to as the Magnificent Seven . A series of historic commercial cemeteries in Victorian London . Nunhead Cemetery was opened by the London Cemetery Company in 1840 and is now considered the least known of these ancient cemeteries. The older parts of the cemetery are still asleep and have been restored by the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery for several years .
Graves of famous people
- Charles Abbott , 101 year old grocer from Ipswich
- Frederick Augustus Abel , chemist, Cordite co-inventor
- George John Bennett , 1800–1879, English Shakespeare actor
- Bryan Donkin , English engineer and inventor
- Horatio Bryan Donkin , English doctor
- Edward John Eliot , 1782–1863, soldier in the Peninsula War
- Jenny Hill , Music Hall artist
- Thomas Tilling , bus tycoon
- Alfred Vance , Music Hall artist
- Thomas Muir , Scottish founding member of The Society of the Friends of the People and political reformer
See also
Web links
- Friends of Nunhead Cemetery Website - FoNC
- Nunhead Ceme
- BBC - Nunhead Cemetery
- Zisenis, Marcus, Nunhead Cemetery, London, United Kingdom: a case study of the assessment of the nature conservation value of an urban woodland and associated habitats, M.Sc. in Conservation dissertation, University College London, University of London, 1993, unpublished .
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '48.8 " N , 0 ° 3' 10" W.