Wolvercote Cemetery

Wolvercote Cemetery is an English cemetery near Wolvercote, a northern suburb of Oxford.

The system of Wolvercote Cemetery is divided into districts, which contains the tombs of Jews, Muslims and various Christian denominations are spatially separated. Many Russians, Poles and other Eastern Europeans who belonged to none of the Oxford parishes are buried here. Today, the cemetery mode is active; The cemetery contains about 15,000 graves. 1999 and 2001 received an award from the cemetery of the Cemetery of the Year Competition.

Graves of famous people

In Wolvercote Cemetery there are many graves of academics at the University of Oxford. Here is a selection of famous people who are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery:

  • Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), philosopher.
  • Edmund John Bowen (1898-1980), chemist.
  • Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet of Westmeath in Ireland and Sarah Junner, the archaeologist parents, secret agents and writer TE Lawrence ( " Lawrence of Arabia ").
  • Albert Hourani (1915-1993), scholar of the history of the Middle East
  • Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), poet.
  • Peter Laslett (1915-2001), historian.
  • James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish sinologist and first professor of Chinese language at the University of Oxford.
  • Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869-1936), historian.
  • James Murray (1837-1915), lexicographer and philologist, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), Russian prince and a professor at the University of Oxford.
  • John Stokes (1915-1990), Principal of Queen's College in Hong Kong.
  • JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), writer and philologist, along with his wife Edith.
  • John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917-2003), eldest son of JRR Tolkien.
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