Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery is an English cemetery near Wolvercote , a northern suburb of Oxford .
The grounds of the Wolvercote Cemetery are divided into districts, which means that the graves of Jews , Muslims and various Christian denominations are spatially separated. Many Russians, Poles and other Eastern Europeans who did not belong to any of the Oxford parishes are buried here. The cemetery is still active today; the cemetery contains about 15,000 graves. In 1999 and 2001 the cemetery received an award from the Cemetery of the Year Competition .
Graves of known people
Wolvercote Cemetery is home to many graves of academics from the University of Oxford . Here is a selection of well-known people buried in Wolvercote Cemetery:
- Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), philosopher
- Edmund John Bowen (1898–1980), chemist
- Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet Chapman of Killua Castle and Sarah Junner , parents of the archaeologist, secret agent and writer TE Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
- William Cohn (1880–1961), German-British art historian and sinologist
- Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle Eastern history scholar
- Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), poet
- Peter Laslett (1915-2001), historian
- James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist and first professor of the Chinese language at Oxford University
- Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian
- Paul Maas (classical philologist)
- James Murray (1837–1915), lexicographer and philologist, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and professor at Oxford University
- John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College in Hong Kong
- JRR Tolkien (1892–1973), writer and philologist, together with his wife Edith
- John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003), eldest son of JRR Tolkien
Web links
- Find A Grave - Wolvercote Cemetery with a list of famous graves
- Illustrated brief information at www.oxford.gov.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustrated Brief information on www.oxford.gov.uk , see Related links.
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 28.7 " N , 1 ° 16 ′ 23.6" W.