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Barnby, Joseph b. August 12, 1838 d. January 28, 1896
Composer, Hymn writer, conductor and organist. Born in York, England. Died in London, England. Married to Lady Edith Mary Silverthorne. Joseph was knighted in 1892.
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Beeton, Isabella Mary b. March 12, 1836 d. January 1, 1865
British Author. British writer of cookery articles and books such as "The Book of Household Management" and "Mrs Beeton's Cookbook."
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Belcher, John b. July 10, 1841 d. November 8, 1913
British architect. A renowed architect, his numerous projects included Whiteley's store in Bayswater (1910), Colchester Town Hall (1898) and the Aston Memorial in Lancaster (1906), which was built in the lavish Edwardian Baroque style. He was also an accomplished musician and artist, and was elected President of the RIBA, (1904-1906) and the Royal Academy in 1909. (Bio by: s.canning)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Bent, Spencer John b. March 16, 1891 d. May 3, 1977
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient.
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Plot: Cremated; Memorial Plaque.
Bessemer, Henry b. January 19, 1813 d. March 15, 1898
Inventor. He invented the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively. This process, though no longer commercially used, at the time of its invention was of enormous industrial importance because it lowered the cost of production of steel. His attention was drawn to the problem of steel manufacture in the course of an attempt to improve the construction of guns for the Military. After two years of experiments he evolved the idea of his process, which is the decarbonization of cast iron...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
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Blair, David b. July 27, 1932 d. April 1, 1976
Ballet Dancer. Trained at Sadler's Wells School, he joined their theatre in 1947. He was made a soloist in at Covent Garden in 1953 and was soon moved to a principal (1955) He created roles in Cranko's Pineapple Poll, Prince of the Pagodas, Ashton's La Fille mal gardee, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet and more. When Michael Somes left in 1961 he became a regular partner of Margot Fonteyn until Nureyev came and took over. He was also a good interpeter of the classical ballets and staged many in...[Read More] (Bio by: Medora)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Plot: Never realised burial info, believed cremated
Brough, Mary b. April 23, 1863 d. September 30, 1934
Actress. She starred in British silent and early sound films. In 1881 she began her stage career at the Aldwych Theatre in London, appearing in such hit plays as "Thark" and "The Cuckoo in the Nest". She was best-known for portraying menacing cockney women in British satires. Her screen credits include "Beauty and the Barge" (1914), "A Christmas Carol" (1914), and "Lights of London" (1923). (Bio by: s.canning)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Burges, William b. 1827 d. 1881
Gothic Revivalist architect and designer. He received his education at King's College School, London, where he studied under John Sell Cotman. In 1843 he began to study engineering, but left to work in the office of the surveyor Edward Blore. There he worked on the restoration of Westminster Abbey. In 1849 he joined the office of Matthew Digby Wyatt, the Special Commissioner and Secretary to the Great Exhibition of 1851, and contributed to the official record of the exhibition, The Industrial...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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Burville, Alice b. July 11, 1856 d. July 4, 1944
Opera Singer. She is probably best remembered for performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan during the late 1800s. Though little is known of her early years, her professional debut came in 1874 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in Franz von Suppe's "Ten of 'Em". Over the next few years, she was seen at several West End venues in Jacques Offenbach's "Orphee aux Enfers" and "La Chanson de Fortunio", as Rosalinde in Strauss' "Die Fledermaus", and in several lesser-known works. Burville toured...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
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Cubitt, Thomas b. 1788 d. 1855
Architect. An influential figure in English building design, he specialised in the late Georgian and early Regency styles. The son of a Norfolk farmer, he journeyed to India as ship's carpenter from which he earned sufficient funds to start his own building firm, where he was the first builder to have a 'modern' system of employing all the types of sub-contractors internally, on permanent wages, instead of outsourcing the tradeswork as had been done previously. His first major building was the...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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Cubitt, Sir. William b. 1785 d. October 13, 1861
Railway and canal engineer; inventor of patent windmill sails and of the prison treadwheel. He was born at Dilham in North Norfolk, England, where his father was a miller. In 1800 William was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker and joiner, later working for a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. He invented and in 1807 patented what became the standard design for self-regulating windmill sails, then set up in business at Horning as a millwright. In 1812 he entered into a contract with Ransome and...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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De Reuter, Paul Julius Baron b. July 21, 1816 d. February 25, 1899
Journalist. Born in a family of rabbis, he was named Israel Beer Josaphat. He changed his name and became a founder of Reuters, one of the major financial news agencies of the world, which first established a telegraph link between Britain and the European continent through the English Channel. When this link was extended to the south-western shore of Ireland at Cork in 1863, it connected Europe with United States. The ships coming from America threw canisters containing news into the sea. The...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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Doulton, Henry b. July 25, 1820 d. November 18, 1897
Son of John Doulton, he joined the pottery business at the age of 15 and took over father's company after his death. It was his genius that propelled the company forward to reach artistic heights. Demands for ceramic products of a utilitarian nature were the primary mission of the company through the 1860's until Henry Doulton aligned the company with the nearby Lambeth School of Art. During the 1870's pieces designed by artists were fired in the Doulton kilns and drew the favorable attention...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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Doulton, John Dwight b. November 17, 1793 d. May 26, 1873
Father of English pottery. He set up a pottery in Fulham, a small village near London. In 1815 he left the Fulham pottery and invested his life savings of �100 in a small pottery in Vauxhall Walk. The company produced a line of stoneware bottles, jars, tobacco containers, match stands, butter dishes and utilitarian based industrial products in addition to some traditional brown stoneware tobies. (Bio by: julia&keld)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Hackenschmidt, George b. August 2, 1878 d. February 19, 1968
Legendary Wrestler. Georges Karl Julius Hackenschmidt (aka Hack or The Russian Lion) of German and Swedish decent was born at Dorpat in the province of Estonia, Russia now Tartu, Estonia. Hack was genetically and physically gifted. He took after his Swedish grandfather. Hack is considered one of the greatest Greco-Roman and Catch-as-Catch-can Wrestler's of all time. He excelled at cycling, gymnastics, swimming, running, jumping and weightlifting. Hack set at least a dozen world records in...[Read More] (Bio by: Gregory Speciale)
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Jones, Sir Horace b. 1819 d. 1887
English architect, famous for Tower bridge and Smithfield market. (Bio by: julia&keld)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Mantell, Dr. Gideon Algernon b. February 3, 1790 d. November 10, 1852
English Obstetrician, Geologist, and Paleontologist. He is credited with discovering the first fossils identified as originating from a dinosaur, teeth belonging to an Iguanodon. He was born in Lewes, Sussex, England, the son of a shoemaker. Growing up, he demonstrated a particular interest in geology, exploring pits and quarries near his home. Because his father was of the Methodist faith, he could not attend the local grammar schools because they were reserved only for those children who were...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
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Maxim, Sir. Hiram Stevens b. February 5, 1840 d. November 24, 1916
Weapons Inventor. Born in Sangerville, Maine, he moved to England in 1881. He is widely known for inventing and developing the Maxim Machine Gun, which was the first portable, self powered, fully automatic machine gun. As such, it is credited for changing infantry tactics in the early 20th Century, where it and it's variants saw extensive service in conflicts such as the Russo-Japanese War, the Boer Wars, the Russian Revolution, and World War I. Hiram Maxim also developed innovations such as a...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
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Morley, Eric 'Mr. World' b. 1918 d. November 9, 2000
The millionaire entrepreneur became known as "Mr. World" after creating the Miss World beauty pageant. He had not intended the Miss World pageant to be an annual event when he organized a bating beauty contest for the 1951 Festival of Britain. But the following year, the United States inaugurated the rival Miss Universe pageant, and Morley could not resist the challenge.
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Muirhead, Alexander b. 1848 d. 1920
Electrical engineer. He was born in East Lothian, the son of a farmer who moved into the world of wireless telegraphy, came south to London, and set up his own firm of telegraphic engineers. He was always experimenting as when he planted a poker in a cabbage patch to see whether it would grow. Because of his deafness after a fall, he was considered backward and had a private tutor. But from 1863 he attended University College School in London and proved an outstanding pupil, taking many prizes...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, West Norwood, Greater London, England
Plot: grave 20,839, square 21

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