Highgate Cemetery, London, England

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Highgate Cemetery, London, England

CEMETERY

Official Website:
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/

Founding Date:
1839

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Douglas Adams Author 11-Mar-1952 11-May-2001 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

John Singleton Copley Painter 3-Jul-1738 9-Sep-1815 Boy with a Squirrel

George Eliot Novelist 22-Nov-1819 22-Dec-1880 Silas Marner

Michael Faraday Physicist 22-Sep-1791 25-Aug-1867 Discovered electrical induction

J. Hughlings Jackson Doctor 4-Apr-1835 7-Oct-1911 Father of British neurology

George Henry Lewes Philosopher 18-Apr-1817 28-Nov-1878 The Problems of Life and Mind

Karl Marx Economist 5-May-1818 14-Mar-1883 Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto

Frederick Denison Maurice Religion 29-Aug-1805 1-Apr-1872 19th c. Anglican theologian

Malcolm McLaren Business 22-Jan-1946 8-Apr-2010 Sex Pistols manager

Albert Moore Painter 4-Sep-1841 25-Sep-1893 English classicist painter

Ralph Richardson Actor 19-Dec-1902 10-Oct-1983 Things To Come

Ernestine Rose Activist 13-Jan-1810 4-Aug-1892 Suffragette and abolitionist

Christina Rossetti Poet 5-Dec-1830 29-Dec-1894 Goblin Market and Other Poems

Herbert Spencer Philosopher 27-Apr-1820 8-Dec-1903 Synthetic Philosophy

Sir Leslie Stephen Encyclopaedist 28-Nov-1832 22-Feb-1904 Dictionary of National Biography

Patrick Wymark Actor 11-Jul-1920 20-Oct-1970 Where Eagles Dare

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