Nunhead Cemetery

Nunhead Cemetery - also All Saints ' Cemetery - is one of those cemeteries that are now called the Magnificent Seven. A number of historic commercial cemeteries of Victorian London. Nunhead Cemetery was opened in 1840 by the London Cemetery Company, and is now considered the least known of these old cemeteries. The cemetery lies in its older parts still in a deep sleep and for some years restored by the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery.

Tombs of famous personalities

  • Charles Abbott, 101 -year-old grocer from Ipswich
  • Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist, co-inventor Cordite
  • George John Bennett, 1800-1879, English Shakespearean actor
  • Bryan Donkin, English engineer and inventor
  • Edward John Eliot, 1782-1863, a 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
Magnificent Seven cemeteries
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