Friends' publications, postcards, audio cassettes, and a selection of
other books of interest, are available to visitors after the Sunday afternoon
tour, before and after lectures,
at the Friends' bookstall on Open Day (2
July 2006), and by post from FOKGC Publications, 39A St. Helens Gardens,
London W10 6LN; please include payment by cheque drawn on a British bank
in pounds sterling. The two introductory guides, the
Concise Guide and Paths of Glory
are also usually available for cash from the General Cemetery Company,
at the Main Gate, during office hours.
Featured on this page:
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A Concise Introductory Guide & Select List of Notable Monuments, Together with a Plan (currently being revised and reprinted) Short introduction, brief biographical notes and plan of the cemetery marking locations of 50 notable graves and monuments, including the Birkbeck, Brunel, Casement, Cooke, Cruikshank, Hogarth, Loudon, Rattigan and Scott/Lockhart families, Michael Balfe, Dr. James Barry, Blondin, Marigold Churchill, Wilkie Collins, 'Boots' Davidson, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Andrew Ducrow, John Gibson, George Grossmith, John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton), William Holland, Thomas Hood, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Henry Edward Kendall, Wyndham Lewis, John St. John Long, Sir Richard Mayne, James Morison, William Mulready, Feargus O'Connor, Sir John Dean Paul, Rear Admiral Sir John Ross, Robert William Sievier, Robert Smirke, Rev. Sydney Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, the Duke of Sussex, Princess Sophia, the Duke of Cambridge and Lady Byron, as well as a selection of particularly striking monuments. |
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Paths of Glory: A Select Alphabetical and Biographical List of Persons of Note Commemorated at the Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green FOKGC, London, 1997; 108pp, A4, spiral-bound, glassine cover, illustrated; £6.00 plus £1.25 p&p This invaluable guide includes a short history of the cemetery, together with brief biographical notes on over 650 notable personalities, as well as a clear line drawing of each monument, together with a grid reference and map to facilitate location. Sample entry: Illustrations and photographs by John and Karen Humpage. |
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A Railway Pantheon: An alphabetical biographical gazetteer, illustrated with line drawings of their monuments, of railway engineers and others connected with railways buried at Kensal Green Cemetery FOKGC and Henry Vivian-Neal, London, 2005; softcover, 28pp, A4, stapled, illustrated; £3.00 plus £0.75 p&p A comprehensive guide to notable personalities associated with railways -- engineers, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, contractors and critics -- with a brief biographical note, line drawing of every monument, and a grid plan of the cemetery to facilitate location. The Pantheon features: Sir William Patrick Andrew, James Lloyd Ashbury, John Ashbury, Peter William Barlow, William Beattie, James Beatty, Richard Vicars Boyle, John Braithwaite, William Duff Bruce, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, George Rowden Burnell, Sir Samuel Canning, Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel GCMG GCVO, John Chapman, Sir John Coode KCMG PICE, Thomas Russell Crampton, Charles Louis Aimé de Bergue, Charles Edmund de Bertodano, Henry J.L. Dean, James Dredge, John Edward Errington, Sir George Lancelot Eyles, William Powell Frith, Charles Geach, Francis Giles, Joseph Glynn, Thomas Longridge Gooch, Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon, John Grant, Sidney Hall, Philip Hardwick, Philip Charles Hardwick, George Harrison, George Willoughby Hemans, John Mortimer Heppel, John Lionel Hood, Lewis Henry Isaacs, Ralph Ward Jackson, Robert Jeffrey, Henry Batson Joyner, Sir John Kelk Bt, Robert William Kennard, Henry Kirtley, Christopher Bagot Lane, Michael Lane, Joseph Locke, William Martley, John Robinson McClean, David McIntosh, Vice Admiral Constantine Richard Moorsom, William Scarth Moorsom, George Bolland Newton, John Meeson Parsons, Walter Peart, John Shae Perring, George Henry Phipps, Benjamin Piercy, William Alexander Provis, James Meadows Rendel, Sir John Rennie (the younger), Charles Russell, Thomas Manzon Rymer-Jones, Joseph D’Aguilar Samuda, Charles Alexander Saunders, Henry Sayer, Benjamin Shaw, Sir Carl William Siemens FRS, William Unwin Sims, Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Thomas Samuel Speck, George Percival Spooner, Richard St-George-Moore, Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson, Francis Croughton Stileman, John Tenniel, John Wellesley Thomas, Edward Wilson, William Winans, Samuel Hansard Yockney and William Yolland. |
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Holders of the Victoria Cross at Kensal Green Cemetery FOKGC and Henry Vivian-Neal, London, 2005; softcover, 8pp, A4, stapled, illustrated; £2.00 plus £0.75 p&p A comprehensive guide to the 14 holders of the Victoria Cross buried at the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green. This monograph includes a brief introduction, a biographical note on each of the 14, together with a line drawing of each monument, and a grid plan of the cemetery to facilitate location. This guide features: Colonel Frederick Robinson Aikman VC; Brigadier Guy Huddlesdon Boisragon VC; General Sir Collingwood Dickson VC GCB; Major General Matthew Charles Dixon VC; General Sir Hugh Henry Gough VC GCB; Captain Neville Reginald Howse VC KCB KCMG FRCS FRACS, Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem; Major Walter James VC; Lieutenant Colonel Edward Henry Lenon VC; Major General Sir Owen Edward Pennefeather Lloyd VC KCB; Captain John Grant Malcolmson VC; Sir James Mouat VC KCB QHS MD FRCS; General The Rt. Hon. Sir Dighton MacNaughton Probyn VC GCB GCSI GCVO ISO; Lieutenant Colonel John Manners Smith VC CIE CVO; and Major General William Spottiswoode Trevor VC. Visitors please note: there are also three VC holders in the adjacent Roman Catholic Cemetery of St. Mary's (entrance next to the Top Gate of Kensal Green). |
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Kensal
Green Cemetery Phillimore & Co., Chichester,
2001; 448pp, hardback, dust jacket, 274 illustrations "This magnificent book ... must surely now be the most extensive monograph ever devoted to a single cemetery anywhere in the world, and will repay close study for years to come." (Garden History) "Beautifully illustrated with faultless captions ... scrupulously indexed, foot-noted and referenced" (The London Society Journal) This important publication represents a comprehensive history not only of All Souls, Kensal Green, but also the origins of the British cemetery movement, 19th century funerary practice, and many notable personalities associated with this magnificent site and its monuments.
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FOKGC and Dr. Julian Litten, audio cassette tape; £3.50 plus £0.75 p&p each, or £12.50 for the set of four (p&p included); LIMITED STOCK Two 60-minute lectures written and read by Dr. Julian Litten, Founder President of the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, and author of The English Way of Death (Robert Hale, 1991):
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Themed
Maps: FOKGC, A3, folded, illustrated; £0.75 each plus £0.50 p&p, or £2.50 for the set of three (inc. p&p) Three themed extracts from Paths of Glory -- with biographical notes, line drawings, and an annotated plan of the cemetery, looking specifically at:
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