Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary.[1] There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides.[2] Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[3]
Highgate Cemetery
1839 (1839)
England
Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust
15 hectares (37 acres)
53,000+
170,000
Location[edit]
The cemetery is in Highgate N6, next to Waterlow Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It comprises two sides, on either side of Swains Lane. The main gate is on Swains Lane, just north of Oakshott Avenue. There is another, disused, gate on Chester Road. The nearest public transport (Transport for London) is the C11 bus, Brookfield Park stop, and Archway tube station.
(1785–1851), painter, engraver and illustrator of sporting and coaching scenes
Henry Alken
Welsh-born film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet
Jane Arden
sculptor
Edward Hodges Baily
author
Beryl Bainbridge
zoologist, superintendent of the London Zoo known for selling the popular African elephant Jumbo to P. T. Barnum
Abraham Dee Bartlett
landscape photographer
Francis Bedford
barrister and antiquarian, best known for his eccentric behaviour
William Belt
diarist, poet, woman of letters, and miniature portrait painter
Mary Matilda Betham
seaside architect and noted designer of promenade-piers
Eugenius Birch
artist and illustrator
Robert William Buss
translator and senior librarian at the Department of Printed Books, British Museum
Edward Dundas Butler
prominent politician in the Peelite and Liberal parties, best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for War
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist
William Benjamin Carpenter
drama and art critic, gallery director, author, poet, playwright and theatre manager
Joseph William Comyns Carr
Swiss painter
John James Chalon
organist and composer
Edmund Chipp
lock and safe manufacturer
Charles Chubb
pioneering early photographer, honoured by Queen Victoria as "Photographer-in-ordinary"
Antoine Claudet
English artist
John Cross
art historian and curator
Philip Conisbee
animal and battle painter
Abraham Cooper
watchmaker
Thomas Frederick Cooper
comedians' agent and producer
Addison Cresswell
civil engineer and railway builder
George Baden Crawley
caricaturist, illustrator, portrait miniaturist and brother of George Cruikshank
Isaac Robert Cruikshank
engraver who with his siblings ran one of the most prolific Victorian engraving firms
George Dalziel
schoolmaster and author of Darnell's Copybooks
George Darnell
theatrical magician
David Devant
historian and traveller. Also active in organizing London's Great Exhibition of 1851
William Hepworth Dixon
The Druce family vault, one of whose members was (falsely) alleged to have been the .
5th Duke of Portland
Administrator and soldier, known as the "Hero of Multan"
Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
Welsh sculptor
Joseph Edwards (sculptor)
(Caerfallwch), Welsh author and lexicographer
Thomas Edwards (author)
footballer
Ugo Ehiogu
Baptist pastor of the John Street Chapel
James Harington Evans
19th-century British Whig politician, known in UK parliament as "Hawes the Soap-Boiler"
Benjamin Hawes
archaeologist and explorer, known for his numerous expeditions in what is present-day Turkey.
Sir Charles Fellows
architect (most notably of Highgate Cemetery)
Stephen Geary
ironmaster and art patron
John Gibbons
Scottish painter known for her miniature portraits, including of one of Charles Dickens
Margaret Gillies
physiologist, noted for being one of the founders of the science of biochemistry
William Dobinson Halliburton
landscape painter
George Edwards Hering
older brother of Rowland Hill and inventor of the first letter scale and a mechanical system to make envelopes
Edwin Hill
Royal portraitist
Frank Holl
English Actor
Ian Holm
19th-century adventurer known as "the Blind Traveller"
James Holman
British colonial administrator and writer
Theodore Hope
headmaster who beat one of his pupils to death
Thomas Hopley
first Professor of Architecture at King's College London and architect of Abney Park Cemetery
William Hosking
actor
Bob Hoskins
FRS, 19th-century electrical engineer and inventor
David Edward Hughes
popular and widely collected painter of watercolours, nicknamed 'Bird's Nest' Hunt
William Henry Hunt
historian
Lisa Jardine
one of the greatest marine clockmakers
Victor Kullberg
younger brother of Sir Edwin Landseer (there is a cenotaph, Edwin was buried in St Paul's Cathedral)
Thomas Landseer
surgeon
Robert Liston
Russian dissident, murdered by poisoning in London
Alexander Litvinenko
Archibald Maclaine (British Army officer)
John Maple, founder of the furniture makers
Maple & Co.
English Anglican theologian, prolific author and one of the founders of Christian socialism
Frederick Denison Maurice
singer, songwriter, music producer and philanthropist; buried beside his mother and sister.
George Michael
(ashes) first female Director of Public Prosecutions
Barbara Mills
internationally known British physician
Frederick Akbar Mahomed
landscape gardener, writer and broadcaster
Jude Moraes
shoemaker, biscuit maker and property speculator, best known for his involvement in the landmark English land law case Tulk v Moxhay
Edward Moxhay
Elizabeth de Munck, mother of celebrated soprano, in grave with large carving of pelican in piety
Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan
Polish nobleman
Feliks Nowosielski
Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer
Sherard Osborn
pioneer of technical education, great-grandfather of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, husband of Princess Margaret.
Owen Roberts (educator)
Peter Robinson, founder of the at Oxford Circus, London
Peter Robinson department store
poet
Christina Rossetti
Italian nationalist and scholar. Father of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriele Rossetti
pugilist, his tomb is guarded by the stone image of his mastiff, Lion, who was chief mourner at his funeral
Tom Sayers
architect and landscape architect, President of the RIBA, Architectural Association, Landscape Institute and the Royal Fine Art Commission
Sir Peter Shepheard
wife and model of artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and model for the painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais
Elizabeth Siddal
actress
Jean Simmons
war artist and correspondent
William Simpson
Chief Justice of Hong Kong
Sir John Smale
pioneer aviator and balloon manufacturer
Charles Green Spencer
sculptor, painter and designer
Alfred Stevens
prolific landscape painter
Walter Fryer Stocks
soldier, MP, and colonial administrator
Sir Henry Knight Storks
author and feminist who assisted in the founding of Girton College, Cambridge, and Somerville Hall, Oxford
Anna Swanwick
toxicologist, forensic scientist, expert witness
Alfred Swaine Taylor
Scottish physician known for his galvanism experimentation, founder of the University of Strathclyde
Andrew Ure
leading Victorian actor
John Vandenhoff
art collector who gave one of Britain's most popular paintings, John Constable's The Hay Wain to the National Gallery
Henry Vaughan
writer, translator and women's rights campaigner
Emilie Ashurst Venturi
translator and scholar of the Orient
Arthur Waley
actress and theatre manager
Mary Warner
RAF test pilot
Hugh Wilson
menagerie exhibitor
George Wombwell
criminal mastermind. Possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty; originally buried in a pauper's grave under the name Henry J. Raymond
Adam Worth
long-serving chairman of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, Southgate
Sir William Henry Wyatt
actor
Patrick Wymark
scientific instrument maker
Joseph Warren Zambra
Several of 's Forsyte Saga novels refer to Highgate Cemetery as the last resting place of the Forsytes; for example, Chapter XI, "The Last of the Forsytes", in To Let (1921).
John Galsworthy
Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films, including (1970), Tales from the Crypt (1972) and From Beyond the Grave (1974).
Taste the Blood of Dracula
In 's alternative history novel SS-GB and its TV adaptation, a bomb is detonated in the tomb of Karl Marx when his remains are exhumed by German occupation forces to be presented to the Soviet Union.
Len Deighton
's book Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) is set around Highgate Cemetery; she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book.[13]
Audrey Niffenegger
In the novel (2007), a part of the Young Bond series, Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill Bond in the cemetery.
Double or Die
's book Falling Angels (2002) was set in and around Highgate Cemetery.
Tracy Chevalier
The film (2017) features some scenes in the cemetery.
Hampstead
's sixth Cormoran Strike-novel The Ink Black Heart evolves around a fictional cartoon set in Highgate Cemetery
Robert Galbraith
Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called occult past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "Highgate Vampire".
Mary Nichols and The Sleeping Angel, Highgate Cemetery
Feliks Nowosielski member of titled family of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of Poland's independence founding fathers, was a political activist known for organising the European and Polish Uprisings in the early 19th.
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