|
|
Kensal Green cemetery is in north London and is the oldest of the magnificent seven. Kensal Green has 73 acres of
land. Kensal Green has got 2 chapels 1 for Anglicans and one for Dissenters the anglican chapel is not used at the moment
because of giant cracks and things that could fall down easily although the dissenters chapel is still in use. Kensal green
hold guided tours every Sunday afternoon from March to October, and the first and third Sunday of each month from November
to February.
Notables at Kensal Green
Henry Ainley (1879-1945), actor
Thomas Allom, artist and architect
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), mathematician,
computer scientist
James Barry (1795–1865), surgeon
George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and adult education pioneer
Charles
Blondin, acrobat, tightrope-walker
John Braham, (1774-1856), singer
Louis de la Bourdonnais, chess master
Robert
Brown (botanist), (1773-1858), botanist, discoverer of Brownian motion
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer
Marc Isambard
Brunel, engineer
John Edward Carew, sculptor
Sir Ernest Cassel, merchant banker
Wilkie Collins, author
Hugh Falconer,
naturalist
Marcus Garvey, black nationalist (subsequently exhumed and buried in Jamaica)
Thomas Hood, poet, humourist,
journalist
Philip Hardwick (1792-1870), architect
Philip Charles Hardwick (1822-1892), architect
Catherine Hayes
(1818-1861), opera singer
Fanny Kemble, actor, poet
William Garrett Lewis, (died in 1885) pastor of Westbourne Grove
Church
John Graham Lough (1798 - 1876) , sculptor
Alexander McDonnell, chess master
Kitty Melrose, actress
Freddie
Mercury (1946-1991), singer (cremated here; ashes scattered on the shores of Lake Geneva, near Montreux, Switzerland)
Ras
Andargachew Messai (1902-1981), Ethiopian ruler
John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), American historian
Cuthbert Ottaway
(1850-1878) first captain of the England football team
Robert Owen (memorial) (1771-1858), industrialist and major social
reformer
John Shaw Jr, architect (1803-1870) Brother in law of Philip Hardwick listed above
Sir William Siemens (1823–1883),
industrialist
Robert William Sievier (1794-1865), sculptor (also member of Cemetery board)
William Henry Smith, businessman
William
Makepeace Thackeray, writer
Therese Tietjens, famous opera singer
Anthony Trollope, novelist
J. Stuart Russell (1816-1895),
theologian and author
William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865), composer
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), artist
George
Bridgetower (1782-1860), West Indian-Polish violin virtuoso and friend of Beethoven.
|
|
|
