Highgate Cemetery

Samuel Sidney

1813–1883 (age 70)

Highgate Cemetery

Samuel Sidney was a 19th-century writer whose works engaged with contemporary social and political issues.

Sir George Burrows, 1st Baronet

1801–1887 (age 86)

Highgate Cemetery

Sir George Burrows was a distinguished physician and educator whose leadership shaped medical practice in Victorian Lond...

Thomas Landseer

1795–1880 (age 85)

Highgate Cemetery

Thomas Landseer was a 19th-century English printmaker known for his skilled contributions to the art of printmaking.

Bernhard Horwitz

1807–1885 (age 78)

Highgate Cemetery

Bernhard Horwitz was a German-born chess composer and theoretician admired for his elegant endgame studies.

Nicholas Trübner

1817–1884 (age 67)

Highgate Cemetery

Nicholas Trübner was a 19th-century bookseller and publisher who played a key role in international literary exchange.

Jenny von Westphalen

1814–1881 (age 67)

Highgate Cemetery

Jenny von Westphalen (1814-1881) was the wife of Karl Marx from Salzwedel, Germany, buried alongside him at Highgate Cem...

Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell

1813–1886 (age 73)

Highgate Cemetery

Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, was a prominent 19th-century British politician and statesman.

William Knollys

1797–1883 (age 86)

Highgate Cemetery

William Knollys was a career military officer whose leadership exemplified Victorian army professionalism.

Frances Polidori

1800–1886 (age 86)

Highgate Cemetery

Frances Polidori was a 19th-century model and artistic subject who contributed to Victorian visual arts.

Ellen Wood

1814–1887 (age 73)

Highgate Cemetery

Ellen Wood (née Price) (17 January 1814 – 10 February 1887), better known as Mrs.

Alexander Wylie

1815–1887 (age 72)

Highgate Cemetery

Alexander Wylie (Traditional Chinese: 偉烈亞力, Simplified Chinese: 伟烈亚力) (6 April 1815 – 10 February 1887...

Samuel Birch

1813–1885 (age 72)

Highgate Cemetery

Samuel Birch was a devoted Egyptologist whose stewardship of the British Museum’s Egyptian collection helped shape mod...

James Thomson

1834–1882 (age 48)

Highgate Cemetery

James Thomson was a Victorian writer whose literary talents contributed significantly to nineteenth-century letters.

Carl Rosa

1842–1889 (age 47)

Highgate Cemetery

Carl August Nicholas Rosa (22 March 1842 – 30 April 1889) was a German-born musical impresario best remembered for fou...

Frederick Akbar Mahomed

1849–1884 (age 35)

Highgate Cemetery

Frederick Akbar Mahomed was a pioneering nineteenth-century physician whose clinical innovations advanced medical scienc...

George Brettingham Sowerby II

1812–1884 (age 72)

Highgate Cemetery

George Brettingham Sowerby II was a dedicated naturalist whose detailed studies of mollusks enriched Victorian natural h...

James Fergusson

1808–1886 (age 78)

Highgate Cemetery

James Fergusson was a prolific Victorian writer and scholar of considerable erudition.

David Wilkie Wynfield

1837–1887 (age 50)

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David Wilkie Wynfield (c.

William Benjamin Carpenter

1813–1885 (age 72)

Highgate Cemetery

William Benjamin Carpenter was a distinguished Victorian zoologist whose scientific investigations advanced marine biolo...

Francis Montague Holl

1845–1888 (age 43)

Highgate Cemetery

Francis Montague Holl (London 4 July 1845 – 31 July 1888 London) was a British painter, specialising in somewhat sent...

Samuel Cousins

1801–1887 (age 86)

Highgate Cemetery

Samuel Cousins was an accomplished Victorian engraver of considerable technical skill and artistic refinement.

Thomas Jones Barker

1815–1882 (age 67)

Highgate Cemetery

Thomas Jones Barker was a painter celebrated for his dramatic historical and military scenes.

Henry Alfred Green Oliver

1844–1880 (age 36)

Highgate Cemetery

Henry Alfred Green Oliver was a dedicated Victorian schoolmaster committed to educational excellence.

William Henry Chippendale

1801–1888 (age 87)

Highgate Cemetery

William Henry Chippendale (14 August 1801 – 3 January 1888) was an English actor, known in particular for his portraya...

William Henry Fisk

1827–1884 (age 57)

Highgate Cemetery

William Henry Fisk was an accomplished Victorian painter of considerable artistic skill and refinement.

William Henry Simmons

1811–1882 (age 71)

Highgate Cemetery

William Henry Simmons was an engraver renowned for the clarity and beauty of his tonal plates.

William Holme Twentyman

1802–1884 (age 82)

Highgate Cemetery

William Holme Twentyman was a Victorian watchmaker of Highgate whose skilled craftsmanship earned him recognition in Lon...

William Milbourne James

1807–1881 (age 74)

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William Nassau Kennedy

1839–1885 (age 46)

Highgate Cemetery

William Nassau Kennedy was a Victorian politician whose parliamentary service contributed to nineteenth-century British ...

Harry Longuet

1878–1883 (age 5)

Highgate Cemetery

Harry Longuet (1878-1883) was the young grandson of Karl Marx who died at age five and was buried at his grandfather's t...

John Syer

1815–1885 (age 70)

Highgate Cemetery

John Syer was a Victorian painter whose artistic achievements enriched nineteenth-century British cultural life.

Charles William King

1818–1888 (age 70)

Highgate Cemetery

Charles William King (5 September 1818 – 25 March 1888) was a British Victorian writer and collector of gems.

Henry Clark Pidgeon

1807–1880 (age 73)

Highgate Cemetery

Henry Clark Pidgeon was a Victorian painter whose artistic contributions enriched nineteenth-century British cultural tr...

Percy Bolingbroke St John

1821–1889 (age 68)

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Margaret Gillies

1803–1887 (age 84)

Highgate Cemetery

Margaret Gillies (7 August 1803 – 20 July 1887) was a London-born Scottish miniaturist and watercolourist.

Anne Hope

1809–1887 (age 78)

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Joseph John Jenkins

1811–1885 (age 74)

Highgate Cemetery

Joseph John Jenkins was a Victorian engraver whose skilled work contributed to nineteenth-century British printmaking an...

John Netten Radcliffe

1826–1884 (age 58)

Highgate Cemetery

Benjamin Robert Wheatley

1819–1884 (age 65)

Highgate Cemetery

Benjamin Robert Wheatley was a Victorian librarian whose professional dedication advanced the preservation and accessibi...

Frederick Martin

1830–1883 (age 53)

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Robert Kemp Philp

1819–1882 (age 63)

Highgate Cemetery

Robert Kemp Philp was a Victorian writer whose prolific literary contributions enriched nineteenth-century British intel...

John Jackson Smale

1805–1882 (age 77)

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Julius Beer

1836–1880 (age 44)

Highgate Cemetery

Julius Beer was a Victorian banker whose financial leadership and business acumen contributed to nineteenth-century Brit...

John Collingham Moore

1829–1880 (age 51)

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Thomas Tate

1807–1888 (age 81)

Highgate Cemetery

Thomas Turner Tate (1807–1888) was an English mathematical and scientific educator and writer.

Charles Bland Radcliffe

1822–1889 (age 67)

Highgate Cemetery

Charles Bland Radcliffe (1822–1889) was an English physician, known for work on diseases of the nervous system.

George Honey

1822–1880 (age 58)

Highgate Cemetery

George Honey was a celebrated mid-Victorian actor whose performances enlivened London stages and whose memory rests at H...

James John Hill

1811–1882 (age 71)

Highgate Cemetery

James John Hill was a nineteenth-century painter whose artistic contributions were recognized through his burial at High...

Lewis Pocock

1808–1882 (age 74)

Highgate Cemetery

Lewis Pocock was an industrious inventor of the early Victorian era whose thoughtful experiments left a quiet legacy at ...

John Francis

1811–1882 (age 71)

Highgate Cemetery

John Francis was a nineteenth-century businessperson whose commercial success earned him burial at Highgate Cemetery.