Find A Grave - St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery

Barbirolli, Sir. John b. December 2, 1899 d. July 29, 1970
Orchestra Conductor. Born Giovanni Battista Barbirolli in London, he made his solo debut as a cellist at age 11 and joined the Queens Hall orchestra - one of London's finest at that time - in 1915. He succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1937, and married the oboist Evelyn Rothwell in 1939. Despite war-time difficulties, he elected to return to England at the height of the war in 1943, to conduct - and rescue - the failing Halle Orchestra of Manchester. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Ernest Blamires)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien b. January 4, 1813 d. November 3, 1891
French Nobility, Statesman. He was born in exile in England; but, in 1814, his parents returned to Italy, where he was educated at the Jesuit College in Urbino. He did not visit France until 1848. After Louis-Philippe was overthrown in that year, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the Representative for Corsica. This election was, however, held to be null and void, but he returned the following year, representing the Seine. Although he sat on the right side of the Assembly, he had no...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Cavendish, Ada b. 1839 d. October 5, 1895
Actress. She was popular in the latter half of the 19th century. She played at many theatres in England and in the United States. Cavendish also appeared in plays written by crime writer Wilkie Collins. (Bio by: MC)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Crean, Thomas b. April 19, 1873 d. March 25, 1923
Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was educated at Belvedere College and at Clongowes Wood College in Kildare. In 1891, the year he left school, he saved an art student named William Hearn from drowning, and was awarded the Testimonial of the Royal Humane Society. Crean went on to study medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons, qualifying in 1896. While a student, he joined the Wanderers Rugby Club and was capped nine times for Ireland, being in 1894 a member of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Delargy, Hugh b. 1908 d. May 4, 1976
British Member of Parliament. He was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and was educated in France and Italy. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Artillery, reached the rank of Captain and was mentioned in dispatches. In 1945, he was elected to represent the Platting division of Manchester; five years later, he moved his constituency to Thurrock in Essex, which he represented until his death. He was cremated, and the stone which marks his ashes can be found on the first...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Plot: CR9
Granville, Christine b. May 1, 1915 d. June 15, 1952
Anglo-Polish spy. Krystyna Skarbek was born on her parents' estate at Mlodziesyn, thirty miles from Warsaw. Her father, Count Jerzy Skarbek, was a Roman Catholic; her mother, Stephanie Goldeder, was Jewish. On the 2nd. November 1938, at the Evangelical Reform Church in Warsaw, she married Jerzy Gizycki. Shortly after their marriage, he was sent to Ethiopia as the Polish Consul, and the couple were in Addis Ababa when Hitler invaded Poland. They made their way back to London but their marriage...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
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Harding, Gilbert b. June 5, 1907 d. November 16, 1960
Television Personality. A well known British television personality and quizmaster, notorious as "the rudest man in Britain", he was born in Hereford, where his parents ran the workhouse. He was educated at Wolverhampton School and at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read History. After graduation, he trained to be an Anglican vicar, but abandoned this and, largely under the influence of G.K. Chesterton, converted to Roman Catholicism. He then took various jobs, as a teacher in England...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Hinkson, Katharine b. January 23, 1861 d. April 2, 1931
Writer. Katharine Tynan Hinkson was an extremely prolific Irish writer. She wrote over 100 novels, as well as songs and poetry. She was best known as a novelist and religious poet. Katharine Tynan's book of verse, "Louise de la Vallière" (1885), established her as a prominent figure in the "Irish Literary Revival". Thus, she was associated among such writers as W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw. Her friendship with W.B. Yeats spanned the rest of her life. Her writing career spanned most of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Steven Tynan)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Jakobs, Josef b. June 30, 1898 d. August 15, 1941
World War II German Spy. On January 31, 1941, Corporal Jakobs parachuted into Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, England. He was not only spotted landing, but had also broken his ankle so he was easily apprehended. He was court marshalled for treachery and as a result was put to death by firing squad. Jakobs was the last person executed in the Tower of London. His body was buried in an unmarked grave at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery. (Bio by: Rickie Hufford)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Kennedy, Andrew b. May 18, 1912 d. December 8, 1988
Anglo-Polish spy. Andrzej Kowerski was born in Labunie in Poland. After his military service, he studied agriculture at Cracow University. Just after he graduated, he was shot in the foot in a hunting accident, and had to travel to England to be fitted with an artificial leg. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Kowerski joined the Black Brigade, Poland's only motorised unit, named after the uniform of black leather jackets. He reached the rank of Lieutenant and was awarded the Virtuti...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
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Mancini, Alf b. April 22, 1904 d. October 4, 1968
Professional Boxer. Born in Notting Hill, West London,of Italian descent, he started boxing at the age of fifteen, and was never defeated as an amateur. The following year, he turned professional, ranked as a Lightweight. His first eight bouts were fought against the same opponent, and he won seven of them. However, by the time he had the opportunity of fighting for the title, he had outgrown the limit of 9 stone 9 pounds, and was re-classified as a welterweight. As his epitaph makes clear, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Plot: RS 133
May, Phil b. April 22, 1864 d. August 5, 1903
Artist, Illustrator. He was known for his drawings of Cockney types and flower sellers. Philip William May was born at 66 Wallace Street, New Wortley, near Leeds in Yorkshire, the seventh child of an engineer, who died when Phil was nine, and hs Irish wife. He went to St. George's School in Leeds, but left very early, hoping to be a jockey, but the only job he could find was as timekeeper in a foundry. By the age of twelve, however, he was helping the scene painter at the theatre in Leeds. Soon...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Plot: 2178
Melville, James Benjamin b. 1885 d. May 1, 1931
British Labour Party politician. James Benjamin Melville was called to the Bar in 1906, at the Middle Temple. He became a King's Counsel in 1927. In 1929, he was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Gateshead, became the Solicitor General in the second Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald, and was knighted. The following year, however, he resigned from office; and, the year after that, not only did MacDonald's government fall, but Sir Benjamin died. (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Meynell (Thompson), Alice Christiana Gertrude b. September 22, 1847 d. November 27, 1922
Poer. Born in Barnes, South-West London, the younger of the two daughters of Thomas James and Christiana Weller. (Her elder sister, Elizabeth (1846-1933) went on to marry Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Butler, and is well-known as a painter of battle scenes). Her parents were friends of Charles Dickens, and the girls were brought up in Italy, France and Switzerland. The elder Thompson became a Roman Catholic in 1870, Alice followed her in 1872, Elizabeth converted the next year. Alice...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
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O'Connor, Luke b. January 20, 1831 d. February 1, 1915
British (Irish) Victoria Cross recipient, notable as the first soldier to perform an action which was so rewarded. (It is worth mentioning that Charles Lucas, the first sailor to receive the V.C., was Irish, too.) Luke O'Connor was born in Elphin, County Roscommon. In 1849, he enlisted in the 23rd. Regiment, which became the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The following year, he was promoted to Sergeant. He was decorated for his bravery at the Battle of Alma, which took place on the 20th. September 1854...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
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O'Connor, T.P. b. October 5, 1848 d. November 18, 1929
Irish journalist and politician. Thomas Power O'Connor was born in Athlone in County Westmeath, the eldest son of a shopkeeper. He was educated at Queen's College in Galway, and began his career in journalism on Saunder's Newsletter, a Dublin Conservative daily paper. In 1870, he moved to London in search of work. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out that July, O'Connor obtained a position as sub-editor on the Daily Telegraph, dealing with war news, largely because of his ability to speak...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Oakeley, Frederick b. September 5, 1802 d. January 29, 1880
Acclaimed Poet.
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Panizzi, Anthony b. September 16, 1797 d. April 8, 1879
Educator. Anglo-Italian administrator remembered as the Chief Librarian of the British Museum. Born in Brescello, which was then part of the Duchy of Modena, he was the son of a lawyer and studied law himself, at the University of Parma. Upon his graduation, he was made the Inspector of Schools by the Duke of Parma, but Panizzi joined the movement to overthrow the Duke. In May 1822, a policeman was killed and he went into hiding. He was arrested that October, but escaped and went into exile...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Pellegrini, Carlo b. March 25, 1839 d. January 22, 1889
Artist. An Anglo-Italian caricaturist known as “Ape”, he was born in Capua, the son of a landed proprietor whose inheritance he soon squandered. When the Italian War of Independence broke out, he volunteered for Giuseppe Garibaldi's army and fought at the Volturno and at Capua. In November 1864, however, he left Italy, partly because of an unhappy love affair, and partly because his sister had died. He never returned. Soon after his arrival in England, he had spent what little money he had;...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
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Reynolds, James Henry b. February 3, 1844 d. March 4, 1932
Zulu Wars Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was educated at Castleknock School and Trinity College where, in 1867, he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees. The following year, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to India with the 36th Foot Regiment, but was invalided home with cholera. He arrived in South Africa in August 1874, where he accompanied the military expeditions to the diamond fields and to the Eastern Frontier. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Plot: 504 N.E.

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