The General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, boasts one of the finest
collection of funerary monuments in the world, with over 130 already Grade
II* or Grade II Listed in the national registry of buildings of special
architectural or historic interest. A great many more also mark the graves
of notable personalities, or appeal as
sculpture in their own right. We shall be adding to these pages over
the next few months.
Commerce
John Barber Beaumont
(1774-1841)
Financier
Sports & Games
James Lloyd Ashbury
(1834-1895)
Railway magnate, issued the first challenge for the America’s Cup
(1869)
The Military
Colonel Frederick Robertson Aikman, VC (1828-1888)
Explorers & Travellers
Admiral Sir Horatio Thomas Austin
(1801-1865)
Arctic explorer
Thomas Liversedge Fish
'The Golden Fish'
(1782-1861)
owner of 400 pubs
Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais
(1795-1840)
Chess Master & champion
General Sir John Aitchison, GCB
(1789-1875)
Admiral Sir George Back, FRS
(1796-1878)
Arctic explorer
Carlo Giuliano
(c1831-1895)
Jeweller
Robert David ('Bobby') Diamond
(1896-1972)
Boxing agent/manager
Gen. Sir William Casement
(1780-1844)
Lady Franklin
née Jane Griffin
(1792-1875)
Traveller & projector of expeditions in search of her husband, Sir John Franklin
Carl Joachim Hambro
1st Baron Hambro
(1807-1877)
banker
Imré Kiralfy
(1845-1919)
White City Stadium, London Olympics 1908
(mausoleum: buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn)
Admiral Henry Collins Deacon
(1788-1869)
Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield, KCB DCL FRS FRCS
(1820-1894)
Arctic explorer
Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth, Knight of the Order of Charles III of Spain and Guelph of Hannover
(1777-1864)
Merchant banker
Alexander McDonnell
(1798-1835)
Chess
Major General George de Lacy Evans
(1787-1870)
Frank Linsly James
(1851-1890)
Explorer of Somalia & Sudan
Andrew Pears
(1766-1845)
Pears Soap
Howard Staunton
(1810-1874)
Chess player, designed the standard modern chess set
Admiral Richard Charles Mayne, CB FGS, Knight of the Legion of Honour
and of the Medjedie (1835-1892)
Explorer & surveyor of the Straits of Magellan
Alexis Benoît Soyer
(1809-1858)
Celebrity chef & restaurateur
Vice Admiral Sir Robert McClure, CB
(1807-1873)
Arctic explorer
John Aldred Twining
(1770-1855)
Richard Twining, FRS
(1772-1857)
Twining's Tea
Robert McCormick
(1800-1890)
Arctic & Antarctic explorer
William Whiteley
(1831-1907)
Whiteley's department store
Admiral Sir John Ross, KCB
(1777-1856)
Arctic explorer
Howard Saunders
(1835-1907)
Arnithologist & traveller in South America
Bayle St John (1821-1859)
journalist & traveller in North Africa
John McDouall Stuart
(1815-1866)
Australian explorer, first colonist to cross Australia from south to north