Key Hill Cemetery - Burials

Burials

A comprehensive record of memorial inscriptions of existing memorials (and of some of those removed by B'ham City Council) may be consulted through The Jewellery Quarter Research Group's web site at: jqrg.org

Notable people buried there include:

  • Marie Bethell Beauclerc - First female reporter (i.e. Pitman's shorthand recorder) in England. Pioneer in teaching of shorthand and typing in Birmingham. First female teacher in an English boys' public school (Rugby). (b 10 Oct 1845, d 19 Sept 1897), (plot 961.I)
  • Alfred Bird - inventor of egg-free custard and baking powder, (d 18 December 1878, age 67), (plot 164.H)
  • Joseph Chamberlain (senior) - father of the politician Joseph Chamberlain, Master of the Cordwainer's Company of London, (plot 622.K)
  • Joseph Chamberlain and his two wives, Harriet and Florence - Mayor and reformer of Birmingham, MP, plot 610.K)
  • John Henry Chamberlain - local architect, (plot 701.K)
  • Robert Lucas Chance - director of Chance Brothers, glass makers of Smethwick, (d 24 November 1897, age 76), (plot 902.K)
  • Robert William Dale - preacher, (b 1 December 1829, d 13 March 1895), (637.K)
  • George Dawson - preacher, (d 30 November 1876, age 55), (plot 507.O)
  • Joseph Gillott - pen manufacturer, (b 1799, d 5 January 1872), (plot 374-375.E)
  • James Hinks - developer and manufacturer of oil lamps (company run by brother, Joseph Hinks), (d 1905), (plot 389.P)
  • Harriet Martineau - author, (b 12 June 1802, d 27 June 1876) (plot 790/I)
  • Robert Martineau - Mayor of Birmingham 1846, JP, Bailiff of Lench's Trust, (d 17 June 1870, age 72) (plot 790/I)
  • Robert Francis Martineau - JP, Secretary of the BMI, council member of Mason's College and then University of Birmingham, (d 15 December 1909, age 78) (plot 790/I)
  • Sir Thomas Martineau - Mayor of Birmingham 1884-7, (b 4 November 1828, d 28 July 1893) (plot 134.K)
  • A. Follett Osler - glass manufacturer, developer of time-pieces, ( d 26 April 1903, age 95), (plot 611.K)
  • John Skirrow Wright - reformer, MP, (d 15 April 1880, age 68), (plot 218.E)
  • Edwin Yates - Mayor of Birmingham 1865, (d 30 June 1874, age 54), (plot 426.K)

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