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.
The Page
William Harrison Ainsworth
(1805-1882)
novelist
The Stage
James Albery
(1838-1889)
playwright & theatre proprietor
The Halls
Emile Blondin
né Jean-François Gravelet
(1824-1897)
The Stave
Michael William Balfe
(1808-1870)
composer ('I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls')
William Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889)
novelist
Anna Maria Bradshaw
(1801-1862)
actress & singer
Thomas Taplin Cooke (c1782-1866)
Alfred Cooke (1822-1854)
William Cooke (d. 1886)
circus artistes
(wooden cross)
‘Boots’ Davidson
(c1928-1993)
steel bands
John Forster
(1812-1876)
historian & biographer
Catherine Hayes (Bushnell)
(1818-1861)
singer
Andrew Ducrow
(1793-1842)
circus equestrian & proprietor
Joseph Richardson
(c1790-1855)
inventor of the Rock Harmonicon & other unusual instruments
Erich Fried
(1921-1988)
poet & translator
George Grossmith
(1847-1912)
singer & author
Henry Russell
(1812-1900)
songwriter ('Life on the Ocean Wave', 'My Old Armchair')
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
(1792-1862)
biographer of Shelley
Jane Hogg
(1798-1884)
widow of Edward Elliker Williams
Carlotta Le Clercq
(1840-1893)
Rose Le Clercq
(1845-1899)
actresses
Thomas Hood
(1799-1845)
poet
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE
(1911-1979)
playwright
James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784-1859)
essayist, critic
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
(1797-1856)
actress & singer
John Murray
(1778-1843)
publisher
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
novelist
Anthony Trollope
(1815-1882)
novelist
William Charles Macready
(1793-1873)
actor