Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery (English 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 Acts of Parliament to eliminate the shortage of space for burials in London in 1833. The strong growth of the city and the high mortality had previously led to unsustainable hygienic conditions in the surroundings of the many small and crowded burial grounds. Just two years earlier, the General Cemetery Company acquired land to build a cemetery. The plant was built in the Greek Revival style, designed by John Griffith.
The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery - - June 13, 1989, a volunteer organization cares about the preservation of the historic site.
Tombs of famous personalities
- 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
- 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), Governor of Hong Kong
- John Braham (1774-1856), singer
- George Bridge Tower (1782-1860), violinist, friend of Beethoven
- Louis -Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795-1840), chess master
- Robert Bowen (1773-1858), botanist
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), engineer, Marc Isambard Brunel and son of 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
- 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 ).
- Philip Hardwick (1792-1870), architect
- Philip Charles Hardwick (1822-1892), architect
- Catherine Hayes (1818-1861), opera singer
- 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), Governor of Hong Kong
- William Charles Macready (1793-1873), actor
- Edward Maltby (1779-1859), Bishop of Durham
- 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
- Harold Pinter (1930-2008), writer and actor
- Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), writer
- Henry Sandham (1842-1910), painter
- Sir William Siemens (1823-1883), industrialist
- Robert William Sievier (1794-1865), sculptor
- Robert Smirke (1753-1845), painter
- John Mark Frederick Smith (1790-1874), General
- Paul Edmund Strzelecki de (1797-1873), Polish researchers
- Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1846), Bengali 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
- William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865), composer
- Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), doctor, 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