Kensal Green Cemetery - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

• Henry Ainley (1879–1945), actor
• Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), author
• Thomas Allom (1804–1872), artist and architect
• Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857), sculptor, photographer. Inventor of the Collodion process.
• Charles Phillip Brown (1798-1884), an Englishman known for writing the first Telugu dictionary and for his contributions towards Telugu language and Andhra people.
• George Percy Badger (1815–1888), English Anglican missionary and scholar of oriental studies
• Michael William Balfe (1808–1870), composer
• Frederick Settle Barff (1822-1866), chemist, inventor of Bower–Barff process
• James Barry (1795–1865), surgeon
• George Birkbeck (1776–1841), doctor, academic and adult education pioneer
• Julius Benedict (1804–1885), composer
• Charles Blondin (1824–1897), acrobat, tightrope-walker
• Sir George Ferguson Bowen (1821–1899), colonial administrator and 9th Governor of Hong Kong
• Lady Diamantina Bowen (c. 1832/1833–1893), grand dame
• John Braham (1774–1856), singer
• George Bridgetower (1782–1860), West Indian-Polish violin virtuoso and friend of Beethoven
• Louis de la Bourdonnais (1795–1840), chess master
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), engineer, son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom (also buried here)
• Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849), engineer, father of Isambard
• Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844), painter
• Lady Maria Callcott (1785–1842), travel writer
• John Edward Carew (1785–1868), sculptor
• Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840), surgeon and scientist
• Sir Ernest Cassel (1852–1921), merchant banker
• Marigold Frances Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Clementine, who died from a fever in 1921 at age three (the monument by Eric Gill was listed Grade II in 2001)
• Thomas John Cochrane (Sir) (1789-1872) Cemetery plot number 21777, 1st governor of Newfoundland 1825-1834,Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1839-1841, Admiral of the fleet 1865-1872.
• Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), author
• Montague Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (1838-1903), secretary to Disraeli and philanthropic founder of Rowton Houses.
• James Dark (1795–1871), proprietor of Lord's Cricket Ground
• Philmore 'Boots' Davidson (1928-1993) Trinidadian musician and introducer of the steel band to Britain
• Andrew Ducrow (1793–1842), circus performer and horse-rider
• Willie Edouin (1841–1908), comedian, actor and theatre manager
• Sir George Elliot (1784–1863), naval officer
• Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824–1857), composer
• Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801–1854), actress, singer and theatre manager
• Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865), Franco-English Victorian painter
• Erich Fried (1921–1988), Austrian poet and essayist
• Henry Gauntlett (1810-1876), composer
• Bill George (1802–1881), Victorian dog dealer
• Philip Hardwick (1792–1870), architect
• Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892), architect
• Catherine Hayes (1818–1861), opera singer
• Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet, humorist and journalist
• Sir Neville Howse (1863–1930), the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross and one of 13 holders of the same award who are buried in this cemetery
• James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), Romantic critic, essayist and poet
• Charles Kemble (1775–1854), actor and theatre manager
• Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), famous British actress and author
• Halina Korn (1902–1978), Polish painter and sculptor
• Marian Kukiel, (1885–1972) Polish General and Minister for War in exile during World War II
• William Garrett Lewis (b. before 1834; d. 1885) pastor of Westbourne Grove Church
• John Claudius Loudon, (1783 – 1843), Scottish botanist and writer on cemeteries
• John Graham Lough (1789–1876), sculptor
• Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), chess master
• Richard Graves MacDonnell (1814–1881), colonial administrator and 6th Governor of Hong Kong
• William Macready (1793–1873), actor
• Edward Maltby, bishop of Durham
• Florence Marryat (1833-1899), novelist, editor, actress and playwright
• Kitty Melrose (1883–1912), actress
• Ras Andargachew Messai (1902–1981), Ethiopian ruler
• John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright
• John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), American historian
• John Trivett Nettleship (1841–1902), painter and author
• Robert Owen (cenotaph only) (1771–1858), industrialist and major social reformer
• John Thomas Perceval (1803–1876), army officer, writer and campaigner
• Harold Pinter (1930–2008), playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, poet and political activist
• Steve Peregrin Took (1949–1980), English musician and songwriter (best known as a founder member of Tyrannosaurus Rex)
• Frederic Hervey Foster Quin (1799–1878), physician
• Sir Terence Rattigan (1911–1979), playwright
• John Wigham Richardson (1837–1908), shipbuilder
• Henry Sandham (1842–1910), artist
• Byam Shaw (1872–1919), artist
• John Shaw, Jr. (1803–1870), architect and brother-in-law of Philip Hardwick listed above
• Sir William Siemens (1823–1883), industrialist
• Robert William Sievier (1794–1865), sculptor (also member of Cemetery board)
• John Mark Frederick Smith (1790–1874), British Army general
• William Henry Smith (1792–1865), businessman
• John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), explorer in Australia
• Dwarkanath Tagore (1794–1846), Bengali industrialist and benefactor
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), writer
• Bert Thomas (1883–1966), cartoonist
• Lydia Thompson (1838–1908), dancer and actress
• Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877), opera singer
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), novelist
• Sir Thomas Troubridge, 3rd Baronet (1815–1867), British army officer
• J. Stuart Russell (1816–1895), theologian and author
• James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884), writer
• William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865), composer
• Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), surgeon, campaigner and founder of The Lancet
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), artist
• John Whichcord Jr. (1823–1885), architect
• Jane Williams (1798–1884), subject of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Alfred Wigan (1814–1878), actor-manager
• Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833-1912), pioneer of lawn tennis.
• Erasmus Augustus Worthington (1791–1880), artist and author

The cemetery is remarkable for the number of Fellows of the Royal Society who are buried there, of which the following is a small sample:

• Charles Babbage FRS (1816) (1791–1871), mathematician, computer scientist
• George Bishop FRS (1848)
• William John Broderip FRS (1828)
• Robert Brown (botanist) FRS (1839) (1773–1858), botanist, discoverer of Brownian motion
• Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS (1890)
• George Busk FRS (1850) (1807–1886), naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist
• Alexander John Ellis FRS (1864)
• Hugh Falconer FRS (1845) (1808–1865), naturalist
• David Forbes (mineralogist) FRS (1858)
• Thomas Galloway FRS (1848)
• John Hall Gladstone FRS (1853)
• Joseph Glynn FRS (1838)
• John Gould FRS (1843)
• William Robert Grove Sir, FRS (1847)
• Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills FRS (1911)
• Frank McClean FRS (1895)
• Rudolph Messel FRS (1912)
• George Newport FRS (1846)
• Reverend Baden Powell, FRS (1824) father of Robert and Agnes Baden-Powell
• Joseph Sabine FRS (1799)
• George James Symons FRS (1879)
• Edward Troughton FRS (1810)
• Edward Turner (chemist) FRS (1830)
• Nathaniel Wallich FRS (1829)