Find A Grave - Brookwood Cemetery

Knox, Dr. Robert b. 1791 d. December 10, 1862
Medical Pioneer. A brilliant lecturer and his private school of anatomy attracted record levels of students, he was enthusiast of practical dissection, requiring a steady supply of "subjects." From 1827 to 1828, Burke and Hare began to supply him with "subjects," being offered over Ł7 for each corpse. During 1828 Burke and Hare were arrested. Hare turned King's evidence and Burke was subsequently hanged and dissected. Knox was popularly considered just as guilty since he never questioned how...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 100
Lawson-Johnston, Audrey Warren b. February 5, 1915 d. January 11, 2011
Folk Figure. At her death, she was the last survivor of the sinking of the "RMS Lusitania". The child of a US Army physician, she was three months old when she boarded the "Lusitania" in New York with her family bound for England where her father had been ordered to duty at the American Embassy. On the afternoon of Friday May 7th. Dr. Pearl was in his stateroom, her mother Amy Lea was on deck, and Audrey was in the care of her nursemaid Alice Lines, when the German torpedo struck. Her parents...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Mangles, Ross Lewis b. April 14, 1833 d. February 28, 1905
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Calcutta, British India, he was a civilian volunteer serving as an assistant magistrate in the Bengal Civil Service. On July 30, 1857, Mangles was with detachments of Her Majesty's 10th and 37th Regiments, dispatched to the relief of Arrah, India. The force fell under a heavy attack and Mangles was one of the wounded. After binding up his wounds, he carried a wounded soldier of the 37th Regiment during the retreat for several miles out of action...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Meiklejohn, Matthew Fontaine Maury b. November 27, 1870 d. July 4, 1913
Boer War Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Captain in the Gordon Highlanders. At the Battle of Elandslaagte, on October 21, 1899, after the main Boer position had been captured, some of the men of the Gordon Highlanders, were exposed to a heavy cross-fire, lost their leaders and commenced to waver. Seeing this, Captain Meiklejohn rushed to the front, called on the Gordons to follow him and regained the position. For conspicuous bravery and fearless example, he was promoted Major...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Ormond, Violet b. February 9, 1870 d. March 26, 1955
Artist's Model. She was the subject of a number of paintings by her brother John Singer Sargent, the best known probably being the 1888 "Morning Walk". Raised in Florence by her expatriate American parents, her image was rendered by her brother numerous times from early childhood on. Violet studied at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti and in 1889 joined John on a voyage to New York, the trip being undertaken at the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Rawlinson, Sir. Henry Creswicke b. April 5, 1810 d. March 5, 1895
British Diplomat, Orientalist. Sometimes referred to as the "Father of Assyriology." Rawlinson initially came into contact with Persian inscriptions while posted with the military and the East India Company in the Middle East. While serving both as a soldier and political agent, Rawlinson was able to gather numerous antiquities, which he donated to the British Museum. At the same time he researched the Behistun inscription, deciphering and translating the ancient cuneiform. He received a...[Read More] (Bio by: Jim Cobbs)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Reynolds, William b. 1827 d. October 20, 1869
Crimean War Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Corporal in the Scots Fuiliers Guards. At the Battle of Alma on September 20, 1854, Corporal Reynolds was a member of a Company, ordered to defend the Regimental Colours and Queen's Colours as they attacked a hillside protected by a Russian artillery battery. Despite constant heavy fire, which saw the Colours shot completely in half he and his comrades continued to rally the rest of the troops and pressed on up the hill. For conspicuous...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Roberts, Stanley Coryton b. March 14, 1889 d. September 3, 1957
Inventor and Automotive Pioneer. An outstanding figure in technical education and training in Britain. Roberts was convinced that Britain could maintain its position in the world only by training more people in science and technology. He founded the British School of Motoring in 1909, and the Automobile College in 1923. In the following year, he founded the College of Aeronautical & Automobile Engineering in Chelsea. The young Alec Issigonis (1906-1988), designer of the Mini, was a student...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 119
Sach, Amelia [memorial] d. February 3, 1903
The names of four women who were executed at London's Holloway Prison are recorded on this memorial. The bodies were removed from the prison in 1971 due to complete rebuilding. Amelia Sach was born Frances Amelia Thorne on December 29, 1866, in Longham, Hampreston, Dorset, England. She was executed after being convicted for the murder of at least one infant in a crime known as "baby farming" (the disposal of unwanted infants by "adoption.") Despite a recommendation of mercy by the jury, Sach...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 117
Sargent, John Singer b. January 12, 1856 d. April 15, 1925
Artist. He was an expatriate American artist who became the most celebrated portrait painter of his time, Known for his glamorous style influenced by Velázquez and the impressionists, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him. Born in Florence, Italy, the son of a doctor, he traveled widely during his childhood, and lived most of...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
GPS coordinates: 51.2977219, -0.6246900 (hddd.dddd)
Sherwood-Kelly, John b. January 13, 1880 d. August 18, 1931
World War I Victoria Cross War Medal Recipient. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Norfolk Regiment, Commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. On November 20, 1917, at Marconing, France, when a work party of men were held down at a canal by German rifle fire, Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood-Kelly at once ordered covering fire. He then personally led a company across the canal under heavy fire, to high ground held by the enemy. He took a gun team, forced his way...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Stillman, Marie [original burial site] b. March 10, 1844 d. March 6, 1927
Painter, Model. A favorite subject of numerous Pre-Raphaelites, she also created a significant body of her own work. Born Marie Euphrosyne Spartali to Greek nobility, wealth, and high position, she was a tall, elegant beauty known together with her cousins Aglaia Coronio and Maria Zambaco as one of the "Three Graces". As a young girl in her trademark black gowns she attracted the attention of numerous artists including painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Spencer Stanhope, Edward Burne-Jones, James...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Thompson, Edith b. 1893 d. January 9, 1923
The names of four women who were executed at London's Holloway Prison are recorded on this memorial. The bodies were removed from the prison in 1971 due to complete rebuilding. Edith Thompson was executed because her lover, Frederick Bywaters, murdered her husband. Both were found guilty; the courts somehow "proving" her guilt through her surviving love letters to Freddy. However, there was no such evidence in the letters, although the jury could not known that because only half the...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 117
Van Laun, Henri b. November 13, 1819 d. January 19, 1896
Dutch academic. Van Laun setled in England in 1848 and became an examiner in French for various government departments. His publications include a French grammar (1863), a history of French literature (1876), and his own translations of Moliere's works (1875-1876). (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 80
Walters, Annie d. February 3, 1903
The names of four women who were executed at London's Holloway Prison are recorded on this memorial. The bodies were removed from the prison in 1971 due to complete rebuilding. Annie Walters was executed after being convicted for the murder of at least one infant in a crime known as "baby farming" (the disposal of unwanted infants by "adoption.") Despite a recommendation of mercy by the jury, Walters and Amelia Sach were hanged together. They were the first women to be executed at Holloway. (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 117
West, Rebecca b. December 21, 1892 d. March 15, 1983
Author, reporter and literary critic. Born Cicily Fairfield, she began writing for The Freewoman under the pseudonym "Rebecca West" (one of Isben's characters) in 1912. Her Life of Henry James, published in 1916, establishd her reputation as a great writer. She began a liasion with H.G. Wells in 1913, which produced a son (Anthony West) in 1914. She subsequently married banker Henry Andrews in 1930. Her many novels include The Return of the Soldier (1918), The Judge (1922), Harriet Hume (1929)...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 81
GPS coordinates: 51.3006096, -0.6257900 (hddd.dddd)
Wheatley, Dennis Yeats b. January 8, 1897 d. November 10, 1977
Author. Known as the "The Prince of Thriller Writers", he was born in South London, the eldest of three children and the son and grandson of wine merchants. Like men such as Chandler, Wodehouse and Shackleton, he was educated at Dulwich College, but was removed at an early age to become a naval cadet on "HMS Worcester". After that, he spent a year in Germany studying viniculture, before joining the family business. During the First World War, he served as a second Lieutenant in the Royal Field...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Cause of death: Liver failure
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Willoughby, L-Cpl. Arthur b. 1914 d. June 29, 1943

Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Co-op Ground, Grave 203752.
Wilson-Claridge, John Edward b. April 22, 1905 d. July 5, 1993
Director of excavations in 1931 when a crude casket containing the remains of St. Edward the Martyr was discovered near Shaftesbury Abbey in England during an archaeological investigation of the site. His family owned the site and they began years of painstaking negotiations with all of the major churches in order to find a suitable resting place for the remains. He imposed two conditions: that they were recognized as the relics of a saint, and that a shrine would be established for their...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Plot: Plot 39
Wright, Wallace Duffield b. September 20, 1875 d. March 25, 1953
Nigeria Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Lieutenant in the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, attached Northern Nigerian Regiment. At Nigeria on February 26, 1903, Lieutenant Wright, with one other officer and 44 men, sustained the determined charges of 1,000 horse and 2,000 foot enemy for two hours. When the enemy, after heavy losses, fell back, Lieutenant Wright continued to follow them until they were in full retreat resulting in success of the affair. For skilled leadership...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England

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