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St. Mary's Cemetery

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery is located at Kensal Green in London. Established in 1858, the 29 acre (120,000 m²) site was built just up the hill from the much larger Kensal Green Cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than 165,000 individuals of the Roman Catholic faith and features a memorial to Belgian soldiers of the First World War who were wounded in combat and evacuated to England but died there in hospital. This memorial can be seen in the background of the image at right.

Some of the notables interred in St. Mary's are:

Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970), symphony conductor
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), statesman, philologist
Louis-Clovis Bonaparte (1859-1894), civil engineer, only son of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte
George Carman QC (1929-2001), barrister
Ada Cavedish (1839-1895), actress
Andrzej Kowerski (Andrew Kennedy), (1912-1988), decorated Polish soldier/spy
Vincent McNabb, O.P. (1868 – 1943), Irish scholar and priest
Alice Meynell (1847-1922), poet/essayist
Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), caricaturist
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), author, creator of "Dr. Fu Manchu"
Mary Seacole (1805-1881) nurse, humanitarian
Krystyna Skarbek (Christine Granville) (1915-1952), Polish SOE agent and World War II heroine
Louis Wain (1860-1939), artist
T.P. O'Connor (1848-1929), Irish Journalist and Politician
Francis Thompson (1859-1907), Poet, Literary Critic

[edit] See also

List of famous cemeteries