09.11.2006, 07:38 PM
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invito al cielo
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London - UK
Posts: 14,313
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You too krack.Night night.
Famous occupants
Famous occupants of the cemetery include: - Lady Bancroft - Actress and wife of Sir Squire Bancroft, theatre owner.
- Joseph Bonomi the Younger - sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator
- Fanny Brawne - John Keats' muse
- Henry Cole - Founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, the 1851 Great Exhibition and inventor of the Christmas card
- Samuel Cunard - Founder of the Cunard Line
- Charles Fremantle - Founded the Swan River Colony (Western Australia)
- John William Godward - painter
- George Goldie - "Founded" Nigeria
- Brian Glover - TV/Film actor
- Geraldine Jewsbury - writer
- Constant Lambert - composer and conductor
- Percy E. Lambert - d. October 21, 1913, racecar driver
- Nat Langham d. September 1, 1887, middleweight bare-knuckle fighter
- Roderick Murchison - Geologist, originator of the Silurian system
- Emmeline Pankhurst - Britain's leading suffragette
- Blanche Roosevelt - American opera singer and author
- Samuel Smiles - Biographer and inventor of "self-help"
- Ethel Smyth - Classical composer and suffragette
- John Snow - Anaesthesiologist and epidemiologist, famed for demonstrating the link between cholera and infected water.
- Arthur Sullivan - no, not the composer (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) but one of his less-famous musical relations...
- Richard Tauber - operatic tenor
- Ernest Thesiger - character actor in such films as The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein.
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford - jurist and statesman
- Brandon Thomas - Author of Charley's Aunt
- Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford - Commander-in-Chief of the Zulu War
- Tim Rose - American singer-songwriter
- Henry Augustus Mears - Founder of the Chelsea Football Club
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