Find A Grave - Stoke Newington

Allon, Henry b. October 13, 1818 d. 1892
Hymn Writer. A Congregationalist minister at the Unionist Chapel, Islington, he was the editor of the "British Qaurterly Review" from 1866 to 1886. He was the father of Henry Erskine Allon. (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Plot: West Boundary Road B
Bates, Arthur b. 1864 d. 1924
Salvation Army Commissioner
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Binney, Thomas b. 1798 d. 1874
Rev. Dr. Thomas Binney. Leader of the Congregationalist church, known as 'The Archbishop of Nonconformity'. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: melancholia
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Plot: Abney House Corner
Booth, Bramwell b. March 8, 1856 d. June 16, 1929
Social Reformer. Salvation Army General.
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Booth, Catherine b. January 17, 1829 d. October 4, 1890
Salvation Army Co-founder. Born Catherine Mumford, the daughter of John and Sarah Milward Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. Raised in a pious household, by 14 she had contributed temperance articles to local publications. In 1852, Methodist minister William Booth was invited to preach at her church where they met and were later engaged. After a three year engagement, they were married in London where they then founded the Whitechapel Christian Mission in 1865 in London's East End...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Breast cancer
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Booth, William b. April 10, 1829 d. August 20, 1912
Founder of the Salvation Army.
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Bostock, Frank Charles b. September 24, 1866 d. June 6, 1912
Zoo-keeper who ran a commercial menagerie. His memorial shows one of his finest specimens. (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Braidwood, James b. September 3, 1800 d. June 22, 1861
Firefighter. Born the tenth child of Janet Mitchell and Francis James Braidwood in Edinburgh, Scotland. He trained as a surveyor and at 24 was appointed Edinburgh's Master of Fire Engines, becoming the first municipal firemaster in history. Following the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824 he instituted training for Edinburgh's firemen and developed skills still in use today. He authored the definitive manual on firefighting for the age. He then relocated to London and founded the London Fire...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: crushed by falling masonry
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Plot: Branch B
Cadman, Elijah b. 1843 d. 1927
Salvation Army Commissioner (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Calvert, Edward b. 1799 d. 1833
Painter, Print Maker. His early work was greatly inspired by William Blake and he later became a member of the Blake-influenced group known as The Ancients. He was born in Kent and studied at the Royal Academy. Among his finest works are exquisite wood engravings and etchings which date from the 1820s and early 1830s. His later works included Classical subjects. (Bio by: s.canning)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Chevalier, Albert b. March 21, 1861 d. July 10, 1923
English comedian, singer and actor. He was a well-known cockney music hall artist and stage actor at the Court Theatre, Sloane Square. He was a straight actor for many years from his first appearance with the Bancrofts, and it was only a lengthy period without work that he decided to try the music halls. In 1891, he entered the music hall and became a successful singer of original, inventive and personal songs which became very popular at the time, in England and America. He wrote his own...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Conder, Josiah b. September 17, 1789 d. December 28, 1855
Author, Hymnist, Bookseller. His grandfather, Dr. John Condor, was a noted Dissenter clergyman, and his father, Thomas, was also a strong Nonconformist. At age five, due to a bad smallpox vaccination, he lost his right eye. However, he learnt French, Latin and At fifteen he entered into his father's bookstore as an assistant. By the age of twenty, he published his first volume called "The Associate Minstrels". He edited the newspapers The Eclectic Republic and The Patriot, and wrote books...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Plot: South Boundary Road A
Ellis, William b. 1794 d. 1872
Missionary, Author. He wrote of his travels to the South Sea Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, and the Winward Islands. Born in London, the son of working class parents, he was educated at the London Missionary society, Graduating in 1815. In 1816, he accepted a post to the South Sea Islands. It was around this time, he became a successful historical and botanical author of Polynesia. Perhaps his best work was "Polynesian Researches", which received great reviews from Robert Southey, "The History of...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Fletcher, Alexander b. 1787 d. September 30, 1860
Religious Leader. Presbyterian minister who developeda reputation for preaching to children. Thrown out of the Presbyterian Church he formed his own independent congregation, which erected his memorial as 'The Children's Friend'. (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Freeman, John b. 1833 d. July 1, 1913
British Victoria Cross recipient. John Freeman was born in Sittingbourne, in Kent. During the Indian Mutiny, he served as a Private in the 9th. Lancers (Queen's Royal). On the 10th. October 1857 at Agra, he went to the assistance of a lieutenant who had been shot. He killed the leader of the enemy's cavalry, and defended the lieutenant against several of the enemy. (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Gosse (Bowes), Emily (Emily) b. November 9, 1806 d. February 9, 1857
Author of two volumes of verse, a prose work on education entitled "Adam and His Children," and a series of very popular religious tracts. She died of cancer of the breast, but, in "Father and Son," Sir Edmund Gosse did not refer to the disease by name, describing it as "one of the most cruel maladies by which our poor mortal nature can be tormented." Her last words, to her husband, were: "I shall walk with Him in white. Won't you take our lamb and walk with me?" (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Cause of death: Cancer
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Hall, Tommy b. 1877 d. April 26, 1949
World-famed Cyclist. Set competitive records. His inscription reads: "William Thomas (Tommy) Hall, who died April 26th. 1949 aged 72 years. This memorial was erected by his cycling friends as a tribute to a record-breaking and world-famous cyclist on road and track. A great rider and sportsman." (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Hibberd, James Shirley b. 1825 d. 1890
Horticulturalist and writer - editor of the Gardeners' Magazine. Particularly involved with development of fruit-trees and vegetables. (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Plot: South Boundary Road A
Hone, William b. 1780 d. 1842
Bookseller and radical author whose satirical magazine, the 'Political Litany', was prosecuted in a famous case for blasphemy. He was acquitted, but continued his association with the cartoonist Cruickshank in a number of political squibs. Became a friend of Charles Dickens who attended his funeral. (Bio by: David Conway)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England
Hunt, George William d. March 1, 1904
The composer of "MacDermott's War Song." In 1878, twenty-two years after the Crimean War, the Russians intervened once again in the Balkans, to liberate Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire of Turkey. Benjamin Disraeli, the Conservative Prime Minister, had sent the Meditteranean Fleet to intervene on the Turkish side. Feelings in London ran so high that W.G. Gladstone, the leader of the Liberal opposition, had his windows smashed by an angry mob, and Hunt penned a song for G.H. MacDermott with the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Greater London, England

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