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Balmain, William d. 1805
Naval surgeon; the town of Balmain, New South Wales, Australia is named after him.
St Giles in the Fields Churchyard, London, Greater London, England
Baltimore, George Calvert 1st Baron b. 1579 d. April 15, 1632
British Statesman. He was Secretary to Robert Cecil, Earl of Sailsbury, and in 1609, Member of Parliament for Bossiney. Because of his conversion to Catholicism and his support for the Spanish marriage, he was distrusted by Parliament and gave up his offices of state in 1625, accepting the barony of Baltimore and large grants of land in Ireland. In 1621, he had established a small settlement in Newfoundland which he called Avalon and visited in 1627. However, because of disputes and a...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
St Dunstan-in-the-West Church, London, Greater London, England
Bancroft, Effie Marie b. 1840 d. 1921
Actress. Theatre Manager. Born Effie Marie Wilton in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of actors, she appeared on the stage with her parents throughout her childhood. She made her London debut in 1856 at the Lyceum Theatre in ‘Belphegor.' Her early career saw great popularity playing the boy roles in several productions including Pippo, in ‘The Maid and the Magpie,' at the Royal Strand Theatre in 1858. In 1865 she became joint manager of the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London. Squire...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Greater London, England
Bancroft, Sir Squire b. May 14, 1841 d. April 19, 1926
Actor. Theatre Manager. Born Squire White Butterfield in Rotherhithe, Southwark, London, he was educated privately in England and France. He made his stage debut in Birmingham in 1861. After a four year stint in the provinces, he made his London bow in 1865 at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in ‘A Winning Hazard.' It was there he met the theatre manager, Effie Marie Wilton, whom he would marry in 1867. Their partnership proved very successful, and together they began a veritable revolution in...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Greater London, England
GPS coordinates: 51.4877892, -0.1935100 (hddd.dddd)
Banting, William b. 1797 d. March 16, 1878
Author. He was an undertaker and furnisher of funerals, who had a parlour in St. James's Street in London. His best-known commission was to build the Duke of Wellington's coffin, but he would not be remembered were it not for the unfortunate fact that he suffered from a weight problem. None of his family, on either side, displayed any tendency to put on weight; but, from his thirties, Banting became increasingly large. He consulted a doctor, who instructed him to walk long distances and take up...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Greater London, England
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
Barry, James b. 1795 d. July 26, 1865
British Army Surgeon, Folk Figure. Served in the British Army for 40 years, and upon death was discovered to be a woman. It was reported in the "Manchester Guardian" on August 21, 1865, that James Barry had entered the British Army in 1813, and had passed through the ranks of Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon in various regiments, and had served all over the world. He was considered a skillful physician, with "firmness, decision and rapidity in difficult operations." About 1840, he was promoted...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Barry, James b. October 11, 1741 d. February 22, 1806
Largely a self-taught artist, Barry became a member of the Royal Academy in 1773 and obtained the commission to decorate the Royal Society rooms in 1777. This occupied him until 1783. Barry was professor of painting at the Royal Academy from 1782 to 1799, but he died in poverty. His most famous work is "The Progress of Human Culture", a series of six monumental paintings done for the Great Room of the Royal Academy.
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London, Greater London, England
Plot: The Crypt, Artists Corner
Batchelor, Denzil b. 1909 d. September 6, 1969
Batchelor was a general sports journalist, leading cricket writer & broadcaster. (Bio by: Connie Nisinger)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Gunnersbury Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Beatty, Adm.. David b. 1871 d. 1936
British Naval Admiral. He was born on 17 January 1871 in Cheshire, of Anglo-Irish parentage. He entered the training establishment HMS Britannia, Dartmouth at the age of just under thirteen, and joined his first ship HMS Alexandria just before his fifteenth birthday. He served with distinction in the Sudan from 1896 to 1898, and it was in Khartoum in 1898 that a bottle of champagne famously was tossed ashore from Beatty's gunboat, the Fateh, to a grateful Winston Churchill. Beatty then served...[Read More] (Bio by: Ronald Land)
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London, Greater London, England
Plot: The crypt, next to Jellicoe
Beatty, Robert b. October 19, 1909 d. March 3, 1992
Canadian born screen actor - appeared in many films from 1940 to 1989, including Odd Man Out, against the Wind, and Superman III and IV. (Bio by: David Conway)
Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, London, Greater London, England
Plot: Cremated in crematorium (ashes scattered?)
Beck, James b. February 21, 1929 d. August 6, 1973
British actor. Famed for his role as "Private Walker" in the legendary BBC comedy series "Dad's Army". Beck also appeared in "Love Thy Neighbour" and "Romany Jones". A potentially highly rewarding career for Beck was sadly cut short in 1973 following a burst pancreas which caused his premature death. (Bio by: Kieran Smith)
Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, London, Greater London, England
Plot: Cremated at Putney Vale
Beckford, William b. 1709 d. 1770
Memorial only. MP and twice Lord Mayor of London, noted for his radical and anti-monarchist opinions. He sided with the ultra-radical John Wilkes and his speech complaining to the King is engraved beneath this memorial. for the City of London he was an important symbol of 'the free Englishman'. Father of the eccentric author of 'Vathek' (also William Beckford). (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Chill
Guildhall, London, Greater London, England
Beerbohm, Sir Max (Henry Maximilian) b. August 24, 1872 d. May 20, 1956
English caricaturist, author.
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London, Greater London, England
Plot: ashes buried in the crypt
Bentley, Robert b. 1873 d. December 16, 1910
Murder Victim. London City policeman who, with his colleague Charles Tucker, was 'killed in the execution of their duty while endeavouring to apprehend a number of armed burglars in Exchange Buildings, Cutler St.' The burglars were actually Russian anarchists who later held a shoot-out at the 'Siege of Sidney Street' in 1911. (Bio by: David Conway)
City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London, Greater London, England
Binks, George Wright b. 1802 d. May 24, 1877
Inventor of wire ropes. (Bio by: David Conway)
City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London, Greater London, England
Bjornson, Maria b. February 16, 1949 d. December 13, 2002
Theatrical designer. She studied at London's Central School of Art after receiving encouragement from the artist Cecil Collins. From 1971 until 1972 she worked for the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, designing ten productions for the company, as well as working on "The Rake's Progress" and "Katya Kabanova" for the Scottish Opera and the Wexford Festival. She became extremely prolific, and in 1974 alone produced designs for operas by Wagner, Holst, Puccini and Prokofiev, as well as two Shakespeare...[Read More] (Bio by: js)
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Blake, Catherine b. 1762 d. 1831
Wife and assistant to William Blake. Daughter of a market-gardener, she was illiterate when she married in 1782. By 1784 she not only could read and write but had become Blake's assistant, learning all the delicate finishing techniques for his prints and engravings. Later she helped him throughout the production of his Songs of Innocence, finally stitching the loose papers into covers. She died four years after...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, Greater London, England
Blake, William b. 1757 d. 1827
Poet, Artist and Engraver. Although he lived a life of near abject poverty, died in relative obscurity and was considered if not mad, then certainly eccentric be his contemporaries, history would prove him to be an immensely influential poet, artist and visionary. Blake was a study in contradictions and paradoxs: married but supported free love, devoutly religious while bordering on charges of heresy, supported revolutionaries, while sickened by actual violence. His most famous works were "...[Read More] (Bio by: morgannia)
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, Greater London, England
Blake, William [cenotaph] b. 1757 d. 1827
Poet, Artist and Engraver. Although he lived a life of near abject poverty, died in relative obscurity and was considered if not mad, then certainly eccentric be his contemporaries, history would prove him to be an immensely influential poet, artist and visionary. Blake was a study in contradictions and paradoxs: married but supported free love, devoutly religious while bordering on charges of heresy, supported revolutionaries, while sickened by actual violence. His most famous works were "...[Read More] (Bio by: morgannia)
Saint Pauls Cathedral, London, Greater London, England

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