Richmond Cemetery
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Established | 1786 |
Location | Richmond, London, TW10 |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51°27′19″N 0°17′18″W / 51.4553°N 0.2884°W |
Type | Active |
Owned by | Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council |
Size | 15 acres (6 hectares) |
Website | Richmond Cemetery |
Find a Grave | Richmond Cemetery |
Richmond Cemetery is a
Many prominent people are buried in the cemetery, as are 39 soldiers who died at the South African Hospital in Richmond Park during the First World War and many ex-servicemen from the nearby
History and setting
The cemetery was founded following the Richmond: Poor Relief, etc. Act 1785 (25 Geo.3 c.41), which granted
The original plot contains many mature trees, including yews, cypresses, and several palm trees. Prior to the expansion of London, the site was originally in a rural and picturesque location, comparable to a smaller-scale Highgate Cemetery, and retains its rural feel today; author Darren Beach describes it as having "a decidedly rural feel", while historian Hugh Meller calls it "an unusually rural cemetery which in spring simulates a country churchyard".[3][4]
To the east of the cemetery is Richmond Park, the two sites separated only by a five-metre (sixteen-foot, six-inch) strip of land known as the Freebord or "deer leap", owned by the Crown to protect the park's boundaries and allow access to the exterior of the wall for inspection and repair.[2][5] Just to the north is East Sheen Cemetery. The two cemeteries are today joined, forming a contiguous area of graves, though the original boundary is still denoted by a holly hedge.
The cemetery enjoys protected status as a result of designation as Metropolitan Open Land and (jointly with East Sheen Cemetery and Pesthouse Common) as a conservation area.[2]
Chapels
Richmond Cemetery originally contained two chapels, one of
The chapel in East Sheen Cemetery is now also used for services for Richmond Cemetery. Both cemeteries are now administered and maintained by Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council.[8][9]
Richmond Old Burial Ground
Beyond the former Anglican chapel are old burial grounds that are now closed. The area called "Richmond Old Burial Ground" covers about four acres. It was first opened for burials in 1856, and most burials there took place between then and the
Memorials
Richmond Cemetery contains several significant memorials, including a granite tomb belonging to engraver William Harvey, originally set at a steep angle but since subsided, which is decorated by an incised palette in pink granite. The Prendergast family are commemorated by two crosses featuring floral-themed engravings.[2][3] According to Historic England, "Richmond Cemetery is unusually endowed with war memorials and war graves".[11][12] A significant number of recipients of the Victoria Cross—Britain's highest military honour for gallantry—are buried there.[4]
Bromhead Memorial and Royal Star and Garter Home graves
Two sections of the cemetery are dedicated to deceased residents of the
South African War Memorial and war graves
Another section is given over to war graves commemorating 39 soldiers who died at the South African Hospital which operated in Richmond Park during, and immediately after, the First World War; the section is marked by a
Notable burials
Notable people buried in Richmond Cemetery include:
- David Blomfield (1934–2016), leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, a writer, a book editor and a local historian[19]
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915), popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.[2]
- Frances Browne (1816–1879), Irish poet and novelist,[20] best remembered for her collection of short stories for children, Granny's Wonderful Chair
- Sir Charles Burt (1832–1913), a solicitor, elected to the first Surrey County Council in 1889 and Mayor of Richmond in 1892–93. As a member of the Richmond Vestry he campaigned to stop the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company discharging waste water into the Thames at Richmond. He assisted in protecting the view from Richmond Hill with the passing of the Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902, and in the purchase of Marble Hill.[21]
- Albert Chancellor (1842–1911), auctioneer and local politician who was mayor in 1897 and 1902; father of the author Edwin Beresford Chancellor[22][23]
- Arthur Herbert Church (1834–1915), chemist,[3] expert on pottery, stones and chemistry of paintings, who discovered turacin in 1869 and several minerals, including the only British cerium mineral. He was also a talented artist and worked as a professor of chemistry at the Agricultural College in Cirencester and then at the Royal Academy of Arts.
- Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Baronet (1844–1920), businessman and Conservative MP[3]
- William Grant Craib (1882–1933) British botanist, Professor of Botany at Aberdeen University, who worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew[24]
- Frederick Jeremiah Edwards (1894–1964], Victoria Cross recipient[3][25]
- Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892), botanical illustrator[26]
- William Francis (1817–1904), scientific author, who lived at the Manor House, Richmond[27]
- Charles Garvice (1850–1920),[3] a prolific British writer of over 150 romance novels, who also used the pseudonym Caroline Hart
- Lord Claud Hamilton (1843–1925), Member of Parliament[3] and a noted railway director
- Harry Hampton (1870–1922), VC recipient,[3][28] who was born in Richmond and died in Twickenham. For over 50 years his grave remained unmarked. In 1986 the location of the grave was re-discovered by Ron Buddle, a Metropolitan Police officer and Victoria Cross historian who, with financial assistance from the King's Regiment Association, erected the present headstone. The grave was restored in 2008 as part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames' "Adopt a Grave" scheme.[29]
- George Julian Harney (1817–1897), political activist,[4] journalist, and Chartist leader who was also associated with Marxism, socialism, and universal suffrage
- William Harvey (1796–1866), wood-engraver and illustrator[3]
- George Hilditch (1803–1857) and his brother Richard H. Hilditch (1804–1873) were pupils of the Twickenham landscape artist Thomas Hofland and carried on his tradition of landscape painting around Richmond and Twickenham. Richard lived at Cholmondeley Cottage (3 Cholmondeley Walk). The Orleans House art collection has 15 of George's paintings.[30][31] Richard's painting 'Kew Gardens from Richmond Hill' is in the Tate Gallery.[32]
- James Bracebridge Hilditch (1843–1921) Mayor of Richmond (1899–1900), the son of artist George Hilditch[33]
- Louis Honig (1849–1906), composer and pianist who lived in Richmond[34]
- Arthur Hughes (1832–1915), painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood[3][20]
- Julius Jeffreys (1800–1877), surgeon and writer, who invented the respirator[3] and was a pioneer in the development of early air conditioning systems
- Arthur Lewis Jenkins (1892–1917), First World War pilot and poet,[35] who is buried next to his sister, Elinor May Jenkins (1893–1920), who was also a poet.[36]
- Harriet Kendall (1857–1933), a singer, elocutionist and composer of ballads, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School, lived at Elsinore, Park Road, East Twickenham.[37][38]
- Chelsea Football Club[39]and was Mayor of Richmond from 1931 to 1932
- William McMillan (1887–1977), Scottish sculptor[3]
- Sir William Olpherts (1822–1902), general and VC recipient[3][40]
- Natalie Opperman (1904–1988), the first woman Chairman and later President of St Dunstan's, awarded the Star of South Africa by the South African government in 1982.[41][42]
- George Osborn (1808–1891), Wesleyan Methodist minister,[3] who was President of the Methodist Conference in 1863 and in 1881[43]
- Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991) Polish-born composer and conductor[3]
- Félix Pissarro (1874–1897), French painter, etcher and caricaturist.[3] His father was the painter Camille Pissarro.[44]
- Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), general and VC recipient[3][45]
- Yardbirds[39]
- Tom Richardson (1870–1912), cricketer[3] who, in the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, was selected by Neville Cardus as one of the Six Giants of the Wisden Century
- Sir Dudley Ridout (1866–1941), major general in the Royal Engineers[3]
- Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921), botanist specialising in the study of orchids[3]
- Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
- Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Augustine Barrett; 1863–1928), composer of Edwardian musical comedy[3]
- werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe.
- Sir James Szlumper (1834–1926), civil engineer and twice Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Richmond.[39] He was also a major benefactor of Darell Road School in Kew and was, for many years, president and patron of the Victoria Working Men's Club in Kew.[47]
- George Powell Thomas (1808–1857) A soldier, artist and poet, who died at the Battle of Agra during the Indian Mutiny, and is commemorated on the family tomb[48][49]
- General Sir Henry Landor Thuillier (1813–1906), Surveyor General of India, who was responsible for the printing of the first postage stamps valid throughout India[50]
- Max Waechter (1837–1924), German-born businessman, art collector, philanthropist and advocate of a federal Europe, who lived in Terrace House on Richmond Hill and held the post of High Sheriff of Surrey in 1902[3][39]
- Andrew Watson (1856–1921), the first black person to play association football at international level[51]
- William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (1848–1909), Lieutenant Colonel in the British Indian Army, and later the political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, Lord George Hamilton. He was assassinated in London by the Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra.[39]
See also
- Bromhead Memorial
- East Sheen Cemetery
- List of cemeteries in London
- South African War Memorial, Richmond Cemetery
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External links
- Official website
- Map of Richmond and East Sheen Cemeteries
- Richmond Old Burial Ground
- Richmond Cemetery at Find a Grave