Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its ''de facto'' status as a

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. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.

Location

The

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is in Highgate N6, next to Waterlow Park, in the

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. It comprises two sites, on either side of Swains Lane. The main gate is on Swains Lane just north of Oakshott Avenue. There is another, disused, gate on Chester Road. The nearest public transport ( Transport for London) is the C11 bus, Brookfield Park stop, and

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History and setting

The cemetery in its original formthe northwestern wooded areaopened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries, now known as the " Magnificent Seven", around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary. On Monday 20 May 1839, Highgate (West) Cemetery was dedicated to St. James by the Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield, Lord

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. Fifteen acres (6 ha) were consecrated for the use of the

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, and two acres set aside for Dissenters. Rights of burial were sold either for a limited period or in perpetuity. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street,

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, on 26 May. Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of

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tombs and buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of Highgate hill, next to Waterlow Park. In 1854 a further 19 acres (8 ha) to the south east of the original area, across Swains Lane, was bought to form the eastern part of the cemetery; this opened in 1860. Both sides of the Cemetery are still used today for burials. The cemetery's grounds are full of trees, shrubbery and wildflowers, most of which have been planted and grown without human influence. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animals such as foxes. The Cemetery is now owned and maintained by a charitable trust, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, which was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West Cemeteries by 1981. In 1984 it published ''Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla'' by John Gay.

Graves

West Cemetery

The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon (previously surmounted by a huge, 280 years old Cedar of Lebanon, which had to be cut down and replaced in August 2019) feature tombs, vaults and winding paths dug into hillsides. The Egyptian Avenue and the Columbarium are Grade I

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Notable West Cemetery interments

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Frederick Tennyson Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet. Life Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred, Lord T ...

, poet, older brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson * Samuel Sanders Teulon, prolific Gothic Revival architect *

Jeanette Threlfall Jeanette Threlfall ( pen name, J. T.; 24 March 1821 – 30 November 1880) was a 19th-century English hymnwriter and author of other sacred poems. She published ''Woodsorrel'', 1856; ''The Babe and the Princess'', 1864; ''Sunshine and Shadow'', 1 ...

, hymnwriter and poet * Charles Turner, mezzotint engraver who collaborated with

J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbul ...

* Andrew Ure, Scottish physician known for his galvanism experimentation, founder of the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

John Vandenhoff John Michael Vandenhoff (31 March 1790 – 4 October 1861) was an English actor. He performed in London theatres, and also in Edinburgh and Liverpool; he played leading roles including those in Shakespearean tragedy. Life Vandenhoff was born in ...

, leading Victorian actor * Henry Vaughan, art collector who gave one of Britain's most popular paintings, John Constable's '' The Hay Wain'' to the

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...

Emilie Ashurst Venturi Emilie Ashurst (Hawkes) Venturi (6 July 1821 – 16 March 1893) was an artist, writer, and activist who pushed for reforms in nineteenth-century Britain. She was the primary English translator of the works of Giuseppe Mazzini, the renowned Italian ...

, writer, translator and women's rights campaigner *

Arthur Waley Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Among his honours were t ...

, translator and scholar of the Orient *

George Wallis George Wallis (1811–1891) was an artist, museum curator and art educator. He was the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria & Albert Museum) in London. Early years George Wallis, son of John Wa ...

, First Keeper of the Fine Art Collection at the

Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

* Mary Warner, actress and theatre manager *

Augusta Webster Augusta Webster (30 January 1837 – 5 September 1894) born in Poole, Dorset as Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator. Biography Augusta was the daughter of Vice-admiral George Davies and Julia Hume, s ...

, poet, dramatist, essayist, translator and advocate of

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

* Henry White, lawyer and gifted

landscape photographer Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes ...

Brodie McGhie Willcox Brodie McGhie Willcox (1786–1862) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) and the co-founder of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, one of the United Kingdom's largest shipping businesses. Career Having established himself ...

, founder of the P&O Shipping Line *

Henry Willis Henry Willis (27 April 1821 – 11 February 1901), also known as "Father" Willis, was an English organ player and builder, who is regarded as the foremost organ builder of the Victorian era. His company Henry Willis & Sons remains in bus ...

, foremost

organ builder Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a d ...

of the Victorian era * Hugh Wilson, RAF test pilot * George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor * Ellen Wood, author known as Mrs Henry Wood, there is also a plaque for her in

Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, in Worcestershire, England, situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Bless ...

* Adam Worth, criminal mastermind. Possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty; originally buried in a pauper's grave under the name Henry J. Raymond * Sir William Henry Wyatt, long-serving chairman of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, Southgate * Patrick Wymark, actor * Arthur Wynn, British civil servant who ran a spy ring for the KGB *

Joseph Warren Zambra Joseph Warren Zambra (1822-1897) was an Anglo-Italian photographer and maker of scientific instruments who with Henry Negretti (1818–1879) founded the firm Negretti and Zambra. Personal life Zambra was born in 1822 in Saffron Walden, Essex, t ...

, scientific instrument maker

East Cemetery

Grave of Karl Marx Highgate Cemetery in London 2016 (10)

Many famous or prominent people are buried on this side of Highgate cemetery; the most famous of which is arguably that of

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

, whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965 and in 1970. The tomb of Karl Marx is a Grade I

for reasons of historical importance. Fireman's corner is a monument erected in the East Cemetery by widows and orphans of members of the London Fire Brigade in 1934. There are 97 firemen buried here. The monument is cared for by the Brigade's Welfare Section.

Notable East Cemetery interments

* David Abbott,

advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers. It is typically used to promote a ...

executive and founder of

Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO (AMV BBDO) is an advertising agency that works with over 85 brands, including BT, Diageo, Walkers, and Mars. AMV campaigns may incorporate digital, social, experiential, print or broadcast media. AMV is part of the B ...

who was widely regarded as one of the finest

copywriters Copywriting is the act or occupation of writing text for the purpose of advertising or other forms of marketing. The product, called copy or sales copy, is written content that aims to increase brand awareness and ultimately persuade a person or ...

of his generation. * Douglas Adams, author of '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and other novels * Mehmet Aksoy, press officer for the Kurdish YPG, killed by ISIS in 2017 * Wilkie Bard, popular vaudeville and music hall entertainer and recording artist *

Farzad Bazoft Farzad Bazoft ( fa, فرزاد بازفت; 22 May 1958 – 15 March 1990) was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for ''The Observer''. He was arrested by Iraqi authoritie ...

, journalist, executed by

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

's regime * Jeremy Beadle, writer, television presenter and curator of oddities * Adolf Beck, the Adolph Beck case was a celebrated case of mistaken identity * Hercules Bellville, American film producer * William Betty, popular child actor of the early nineteenth century *

Emily Blatchley Emily Blatchley (c. 1842 – 26 July 1874) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. She pioneered the work of single women missionaries in China and served as personal secretary to the founder of th ...

, pioneering

Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...

Christian

missionary A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Tho ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

Kate Booth Catherine Booth-Clibborn (Katie Booth, 18 September 18589 May 1955) was an English Salvationist and evangelist who extended the Salvation Army into France and Switzerland against local opposition. She was the oldest daughter of William and Cath ...

, English Salvationist and evangelist. Oldest daughter of William and

Catherine Booth Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Mot ...

. She was also known as ''la Maréchale'' * Frederick Broome, colonial administrator of several British colonies. The Western Australian towns of Broome and Broomehill are named after him *

George Barclay Bruce Sir George Barclay Bruce (1 October 1821 – 25 August 1908) was a British civil engineer. He was primarily a railway engineer who worked for many railway companies in Britain, Europe, Asia and South America. He was closely involved with ...

, world renown railway engineer and president of the Institution of Civil Engineers * Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet, Scottish physician who is most-closely associated with the treatment of angina pectoris * James Caird, Scottish agricultural writer and politician * Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses * Douglas Cleverdon, radio producer and bookseller * William Kingdon Clifford (with his wife Lucy), mathematician and philosopher * Lucy Lane Clifford, novelist and journalist, wife of William Kingdon Clifford * Yusuf Dadoo, South African anti-apartheid activist * Lewis Foreman Day, influential artist in the Arts and Crafts movement * Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt, British newspaper owner and

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

politician. Massive mausoleum near the entrance. * Elyse Dodgson, theatre producer * Fritz Dupre,

iron Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in ...

and

manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of ...

ore merchant, known as the "Manganese Ore King" * Francis Elgar, naval architect * George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans – the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross), novelist, common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him * Edwin Wilkins Field, lawyer who devoted much of his life to law reform * Paul Foot, campaigning journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot *

Lydia Folger Fowler Lydia Folger Fowler (May 5, 1823 – January 26, 1879) was a pioneering American physician, professor of medicine, and activist. She was the second American woman to earn a medical degree (after Elizabeth Blackwell) and one of the first American ...

, pioneering American physician and first American-born woman to earn a medical degree * William Foyle, co-founder of

Foyles W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a bookseller with a chain of seven stores in England. It is best known for its flagship store in Charing Cross Road, London. Foyles was once listed in the ''Guinness Book of Records'' as the w ...

* William Friese-Greene, cinema pioneer and his son Claude Friese-Greene *

Lou Gish Lou Gish (27 May 1967 – 20 February 2006) was an English stage, film and television actress. Biography She was born Louise Mikel Henrietta Marie Curram in 1967, the elder daughter of actors Sheila Gish and Roland Curram. She was raised ...

, actress, daughter of Sheila Gish *

Sheila Gish Sheila Gish (born Sheila Anne Syme Gash; 23 April 1942 – 9 March 2005) was an English actress. For her role in the 1995 London revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical ''Company'', she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in ...

, actress *

Philip Gould Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

, British political consultant, and former advertising

executive Executive ( exe., exec., execu.) may refer to: Role or title * Executive, a senior management role in an organization ** Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators ** Executive di ...

, closely linked to the Labour Party * Robert Grant VC, soldier and police constable * Robert Edmond Grant, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

who gave his name to the

Grant Museum of Zoology The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a natural history museum that is part of University College London in London, England. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and ...

* Charles Green, the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century * Leon Griffiths, creator of Minder * Stuart Hall,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispa ...

n-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist * Harrison Hayter, railway, harbour and dock engineer * Mansoor Hekmat, Communist leader and founder of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq * Eric Hobsbawm, historian *

Austin Holyoake Austin Holyoake (27 October 1826 – 10 April 1874) was a printer, publisher, and freethinker. The younger brother and partner of the more widely known George Jacob Holyoake, Austin Holyoake was himself a significant figure in nineteenth centu ...

, printer, publisher, freethinker and brother of the more widely known

George Holyoake George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, the ''Reasoner'', from 1846 to J ...

, Birmingham-born social reformer and founder of the Cooperative Movement * George Honey, popular Victorian actor and comedian *

Alan Howard Alan Howard may refer to: * Alan Howard (actor) (1937–2015), English actor * Alan Howard (cricketer) (1909–1993), English cricketer * Alan Howard (engineer) (1905–1966), American engineer * Alan Howard (hedge fund manager) (born 1963), hedge ...

, actor * Leslie Hutchinson,

Cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dinin ...

star of the 20s and 30s * Jabez Inwards, popular Victorian

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture * Temperance (group), Canadian dan ...

lecturer and

phrenologist Phrenology () is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.Wihe, J. V. (2002). "Science and Pseudoscience: A Primer in Critical Thinking." In ''Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience'', pp. 195–203. C ...

* Georges Jacobi, composer and conductor * Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician * Claudia Jones, Trinidadian born

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

and fighter for civil rights, founder of '' The West Indian Gazette'' and the Notting Hill Carnival *

George Goodwin Kilburne George Goodwin Kilburne, R.I., R.O.I, R.M.S, (24 July 1839 – 1924 London) was an English genre painter specialising in accurately drawn interiors with figures. He favoured the watercolour medium, although he also worked in oils, pencil and ...

genre Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other f ...

painter *

David Kirkaldy David Kirkaldy (1820–1897) was a Scottish engineer who pioneered the testing of materials as a service to engineers during the Victorian period. He established a test house in Southwark, London and built a large hydraulic tensile test machin ...

, Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing * Anatoly Kuznetsov, Soviet writer * Liza Lehmann, operatic soprano and composer, daughter of Rudolf Lehmann * Rudolf Lehmann, portrait artist and father of Liza Lehmann * Andrea Levy, novelist best known for the novels '' Small Island'' and '' The Long Song'' * George Henry Lewes, English philosopher and critic, common law husband of George Eliot and buried next to her. * Roger Lloyd-Pack, British actor known for '' Only Fools and Horses'' and '' The Vicar of Dibley'' *

John Lobb John Lobb (27 December 1829 – 17 January 1895) was an English shoemaker and the founder of the company John Lobb Bootmaker. He founded his first successful company making boots for gold diggers in Australia. Early life John Lobb was born in Tywar ...

, Society bootmaker *

Charles Lucy Charles Lucy (July 1814 – 19 May 1873) was a British artist during the Victorian era who, while he was a talented portraitist, mainly focused on the history painting genre and whose work was mainly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in ...

, British artist, whose most notable painting was ''The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers'' * Haldane MacFall, art critic, art historian, book illustrator and novelist *

Anna Mahler Anna Justine Mahler (15 June 1904 – 3 June 1988) was an Austrian sculptor. Early life Born in Vienna, Anna Mahler was the second child of the composer Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma Schindler. They nicknamed her 'Gucki' on account of her b ...

, sculptress and daughter of Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler * Chris Martin, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister *

James Martineau James Martineau (; 21 April 1805 – 11 January 1900) was a British religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism. For 45 years he was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in Manchester New College ...

, religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism *

, philosopher, historian, sociologist and economist (memorial after his reburial, with other family members) * Frank Matcham, theatre architect *

Carl Mayer Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), ''The Head of Janus'' (1920), '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921), '' Der Letzte Mann'' (192 ...

, Austro-German screenwriter of '' The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari'' and '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' * Thomas McKinnon Wood, Liberal politician and Secretary of State for Scotland * Malcolm McLaren, punk impresario and original manager of the Sex Pistols * Ralph Miliband, left wing political theorist, father of David Miliband and

Ed Miliband Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliba ...

* Alan Milward, influential historian *

William Henry Monk William Henry Monk (16 March 1823 – 1 March 1889) was an English organist, church musician and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including "Eventide", used for the hymn "Abide with Me", and "All Things Bright and Beautiful". He ...

, composer (of the music to ''

Abide with Me "Abide with Me" is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican cleric Henry Francis Lyte. A prayer for God to stay with the speaker throughout life and in death, it was written by Lyte in 1847 as he was dying from tuberculosis. It is most often sung ...

'') * Charles Morton, music hall and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...

manager who became known as the ''Father of the Halls'' * Sidney Nolan, Australian artist * George Josiah Palmer, founder and editor of '' Church Times'' *

Charles J. Phipps Charles John Phipps (25 March 1835 – 25 May 1897) was an English architect best known for his more than 50 theatres built in the latter half of the 19th century, including several important London theatres. He is also noted for his design of ...

, theatre architect *

Tim Pigott-Smith Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English film and television actor and author. He was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series '' The Jewel in the Crown'', for which he wo ...

, actor * Dachine Rainer, poet and anarchist * Corin Redgrave, actor and political activist *

Bruce Reynolds Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 – 28 February 2013) was an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting , equivalent to £ million today. Reynolds spent fiv ...

, criminal, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery (1963) * Ralph Richardson, actor * George Richmond, painter and portraitist * José Carlos Rodrigues, Brazilian journalist, financial expert, and philanthropist * Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and freethinker *

James Samuel Risien Russell James Samuel Risien Russell (17 September 1863 – 20 March 1939) was a Guyanese-British physician, neurologist, professor of medicine, and professor of medical jurisprudence. Early life Russell was of mixed race, born in Demerara, British G ...

, Guyanese-British physician, neurologist, professor of medicine, and professor of medical jurisprudence * Raphael Samuel, Marxist historian * James Sceats, Distiller, British distiller, wine & spirit and creator of El-Bart Gin * Anthony Shaffer, playwright, screenwriter and novelist * Peter Shaffer, playwright and screenwriter * Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade *

Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ' ...

, English postmodern novelist, poet, and playwright * James Smetham, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter, engraver and follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti * Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Canadian railway financier and diplomat *

Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist famous for his hypothesis of social Darwinism. Spencer originated the expression " survival of the f ...

, evolutionary biologist, sociologist, and

laissez-faire ''Laissez-faire'' ( ; from french: laissez faire , ) is an economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies) deriving from special interest groups ...

economic philosopher * Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the '' Dictionary of National Biography'', father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the Bloomsbury Group * Julia Princep Stephen,

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Jam ...

model and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the Bloomsbury Group. *

William Heath Strange William Heath Strange (15 June 1837 – 28 February 1907) founded the Hampstead General Hospital on the site now occupied by the Royal Free Hospital. Early life and qualifications William was born in Devizes, Devizes, Wiltshire, the youngest son ...

, physician and founder of the ''Hampstead General Hospital'', now the Royal Free Hospital *

Lucien Stryk Lucien Stryk (April 7, 1924 - January 24, 2013) was an American poet, translator of Buddhist literature and Zen poetry, and former English professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Biography Stryk was born in Poland on April 7, 1924, and ...

, American poet, teacher and translator of Zen poetry * Thomas Tate, mathematician and scientific educator and writer * Sir George Thalben-Ball, English organist, choirmaster and composer * Bob Thoms, the greatest Victorian cricket umpire * James Thomson, Victorian poet, best known for ''

The City of Dreadful Night ''The City of Dreadful Night'' is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the ''National Reformer'' in 1874, then, in 1880, in a book entitled ''The City of Dreadful Night and Othe ...

'' * Storm Thorgerson, graphic designer * Malcolm Tierney, actor * Feliks Topolski, Polish-born British expressionist painter * Edward Truelove, radical publisher and freethinker *

Peter Ucko Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA (27 July 1938 – 14 June 2007) was an influential English archaeologist. He served as Director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), and was a Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological ...

, influential English archaeologist * Max Wall, comedian and entertainer * Simon Ward, actor *

Peter Cathcart Wason Peter Cathcart Wason (22 April 1924 – 17 April 2003) was a cognitive psychologist at University College, London who pioneered the Psychology of Reasoning. He progressed explanations as to why people make certain consistent mistakes in logical r ...

, pioneering psychologist *

Sir Lawrence Weaver Sir Lawrence Walter William Weaver (1876–1930) was an English architectural writer and civil servant. Early years Lawrence Weaver was the son of Walter and Frances Weaver of Clifton, Bristol. He was educated at Clifton College and was trained ...

, architectural writer, editor of Country Life and organiser of the British Empire Exhibition * Opal Whiteley, American writer *

Colin St John Wilson Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, (14 March 1922 – 14 May 2007) was an English architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned t ...

, architect (most notably of the new

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...

in London), lecturer and author * Joseph Wolf, natural history illustrator and pioneer in wildlife art * Edward Richard Woodham, survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade * Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, politician, social activist and consumer champion.

War graves

The cemetery contains the graves of 318 Commonwealth service personnel maintained and registered by the

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ...

, in both the East and West Cemeteries, 259 from the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

and 59 from the Second. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected near the

Cross of Sacrifice The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). It is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or m ...

in the west cemetery.

In popular culture

Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called occult past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "

Highgate Vampire The Highgate Vampire was a media sensation surrounding reports of supposed supernatural activity at Highgate Cemetery in London, England, United Kingdom, in the 1970s. The most thorough account of the story is given by folklorist Bill Ellis in the ...

". * Several of John Galsworthy's '' Forsyte Saga'' novels refer to Highgate Cemetery as the last resting place of the Forsytes; for example, Chapter XI, "The Last of the Forsytes," in ''To Let'' (1921). * Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films, including ''

Taste the Blood of Dracula ''Taste the Blood of Dracula'' is a 1970 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Peter Sasdy from a script by Anthony Hinds, it is the fifth installment in Hammer's ''Dracula'' series, and the fourth to ...

'' (1970), ''

Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Crypt may refer to: * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (album), by American rapper C-Bo * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (comics), published by EC Comics during the 1950s ** ''Tales from the Crypt'' (film), a 1972 Amicus film starring Ralph Ric ...

'' (1972) and '' From Beyond the Grave'' (1974). * In the BBC TV series '' Porridge'', Fletcher claims that his eldest daughter, Ingrid, was conceived on Karl Marx's tomb. * Herbert Smith is shadowed through Highgate Cemetery in '' Visibility'', a murder/espionage/thriller by Boris Starling. * Highgate Cemetery is the sixth level of the '' Nightmare Creatures'' game. * In

Len Deighton Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. After completing his national service in the Royal Air ...

's alternative history novel ''

SS-GB ''SS-GB'' is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's title refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain. It was first publi ...

'' and its TV adaptation, a bomb is detonated in the tomb of

when his remains are exhumed by German occupation forces to be presented to the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. *

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's novel '' Un lieu incertain'' starts in the cemetery. * Barbara Hambly's vampire novel, ''

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'', has the main characters visiting Highgate at one point to examine the remains of a vampire who had taken over an abandoned tomb. * Stated in the acknowledgments as the inspiration for the setting of Neil Gaiman's '' The Graveyard Book''. *

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's book '' Her Fearful Symmetry'' (2009) is set around Highgate Cemetery; she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book. * In the novel '' Double or Die'' (2007), a part of the '' Young Bond'' series, Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill Bond in the cemetery. * Tracy Chevalier's book ''Falling Angels'' (2002) was set in and around Highgate Cemetery. The two main protagonists met there as children while their parents were visiting adjacent family graves and they continued to enjoy meeting up and playing there. * The movie ''Hampstead'' (2017) features a few scenes in the cemetery. * The climax of a novel by

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, ''Seven Skins'' (2018), was set in the Egyptian Avenue and Circle of Lebanon, among other locations in the West Cemetery. * The movie '' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald'' (2018) features scenes towards the end of the film in the cemetery before the famous Cedar tree was removed. * In the novel '' The Ink Black Heart'' (2022), the cemetery is an important location both in real-life plot and in virtual online game.

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