We do not know his place of burial.
In 1866, to comply with an Act of Parliament banning further interments in metropolitan churchyards because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, the Hammersmith Burial Board purchased nearly 10 acres of market garden and orchards in Fulham Fields for use as a cemetery. The plot was laid out by a local architect who also designed modest lodges and two chapels in the Gothic style. Officially opened on 25 Nov 1869, the cemetery was intended for 12,000 interments but eventually, after being expanded its current size, had to find space for more than 83,000. The cemetery was damaged in three bombing raids during the Second World War and in 1951, the then Hammersmith Council, concerned at its dilapidated appearance, decided to remodel it as a garden of rest. Many memorials and headstones were removed or buried, a dilapidated chapel was demolished and the cleared land was laid to grass. The clear-up operation was completed in 1965. The site now forms part of the Barons Court Conservation area, designated in April 1989.
We do not know his place of burial.
In 1866, to comply with an Act of Parliament banning further interments in metropolitan churchyards because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, the Hammersmith Burial Board purchased nearly 10 acres of market garden and orchards in Fulham Fields for use as a cemetery. The plot was laid out by a local architect who also designed modest lodges and two chapels in the Gothic style. Officially opened on 25 Nov 1869, the cemetery was intended for 12,000 interments but eventually, after being expanded its current size, had to find space for more than 83,000. The cemetery was damaged in three bombing raids during the Second World War and in 1951, the then Hammersmith Council, concerned at its dilapidated appearance, decided to remodel it as a garden of rest. Many memorials and headstones were removed or buried, a dilapidated chapel was demolished and the cleared land was laid to grass. The clear-up operation was completed in 1965. The site now forms part of the Barons Court Conservation area, designated in April 1989.
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