Find A Grave - Cumbria

Addison, Thomas b. April, 1793 d. June 29, 1860
English Scientist, Physician, and Medical Pioneer. He is best remembered for his discovery of the degenerative disease of the adrenal glands that was later named Addison's Disease in his honor. He was born in Long Benton, near Newcastle, England, where his father was a grocer and flour dealer. After attending the local village school he went to the Royal Free Grammar School in Newcastle. In 1812 he entered the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland to pursue a career as a physician and...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Lanercost Priory, Lanercost, Cumbria, England
Bunting, Basil b. March 1, 1900 d. April 17, 1985
British Modernist Poet. Bunting was born on March 3, 1900, in Scotswood on Tyne, Northcumberland, England, which is now part of New Castle. As a Quaker he was a conscientious objector during WWI. He was arrested for this in 1918 and spent time in prison. During the early 1920's he worked as a music critic and wrote poetry. During WWII, Bunting served in the British Military Service in Iran. After the war he served on the British Embassy staff in Teheran until he was expelled by Muhammed...[Read More] (Bio by: Eamonn)
Quaker Graveyard, Brigflatts, Cumbria, England
Campbell, Donald b. March 23, 1921 d. January 4, 1967
Sportsman. Land and Water Speed Record Holder. Born in Horley, Surrey, he was the son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, and followed in the footsteps of his father by setting world speed records on both land and water. On July 23, 1955 at Ullswater, Cumbria, he became the first person to complete an officially timed run with a jet-propelled hydroplane, achieving a speed of 202.32 mph (325 kmph). On December 31, 1964, he beat this record at Dumbleyung Lake, Australia, with a speed of 276.33 mph (444.6...[Read More] (Bio by: Kieran Smith)
St Andrew Churchyard, Coniston, Cumbria, England
Christian, Harry b. January 17, 1892 d. September 2, 1974
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Wallthwaite, England, he served as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment, British Army. On October 18, 1915, during the Battle of Loos, Private Christian was holding a crater with five or six men in front of our trenches. The Germans commenced a heavy bombardment of the position with Minenwerfer bombs, which forced he and the others to temporary withdrawal. When he found that three men were missing, Private Christian at once...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Egremont Cemetery, Egremont, Cumbria, England
Collingwood, Robin George b. February 22, 1889 d. January 9, 1943
Philosopher, Historian. The son of William Gershom Collingwood, he was awarded a fellowship at Oxford in 1912, and apart from military service in Admiralty Intelligence from 1914 to 1918, he spent the remainder of his professional life at Oxford, being appointed Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy in 1935. Much of his early work was in theology and the philosophy of religion. In 1916 he...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
St Andrew Churchyard, Coniston, Cumbria, England
Plot: next to John Ruskin and his parents
Collingwood, William Gershom b. August 6, 1854 d. October 1, 1932
Author, Artist, Antiquary. After a brilliant academic career at Oxford, where he was a pupil of John Ruskin, he married and settled at Gillhead, Windermere. He was influenced by Ruskin and William Morris, from whom he derived a life-long interest in Norse settlement, art and language. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
St Andrew Churchyard, Coniston, Cumbria, England
Plot: next to John Ruskin
Hewitson, James b. October 15, 1892 d. March 2, 1963
World War I British Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Lance Corporal, in the 1/4th Battalion The King's Own Regiment. At Givenchy, France on April 26, 1918, in a daylight attack on German posts, Lance Corporal Hewitson led his troop to their objective. He cleared the enemy from both trench and dug-outs, killing six who would not surrender. After capturing the final objective he saw a hostile machine-gun team coming into action against his men and working his way round the edge of a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
St Andrew Churchyard, Coniston, Cumbria, England
Howard, George James b. August 12, 1843 d. April 16, 1911
British Nobility. Active Liberal MP and an accomplished painter. His background dictated that he should be educated at Eton and Cambridge, but he wished only to become an artist. He was deeply involved in the artistic life of his day; Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris were among his many friends, and he trained under Alphonse Legros and Giovanni Costa. He married Rosalind Frances Stanley October 4, 1864, who descended from Charles II and James II, Kings of England and Scotland. With her...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Lanercost Priory, Lanercost, Cumbria, England
Plot: Lady Chapel at the angle of the north transept and chancel
Mayson, Tom Fletcher b. November 3, 1893 d. February 21, 1958
World War I Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Lance Sergeant, in the 1/4th Battalion, King's Own Regiment. At Wieltje, Belgium, July 31, 1917, Lance Sergeant Mayson's platoon was held up by German machine-gun fire. Without waiting for orders, he made for the gun, put it out of action, wounding four of the team and the remaining three of the team fled. He pursued them to a dug-out where he killed them and later clearing up a strongpoint, he tackled a machine-gun single-handed...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
St Mary Churchyard, Whicham, Cumbria, England
Peel, John b. September 24, 1776 d. November 13, 1854
British Folk Figure, Huntsman. The trumpet has sounded on the English fox hunt. Animal rights activists and the anti-hunting lobby has prevailed, and the sport is banned. Oscar Wilde chastised Victorian era fox hunters with this quote, "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Animal activists have been successful after years of protests, sometimes to the extreme. In this sport, the fox is pursued by hunters on horseback controlling hunting hounds bred for endurance tracking the...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
St. Kentigern Churchyard, Caldbeck, Cumbria, England
Plot: Family Plot by Church Door
Ransome, Arthur b. January 18, 1884 d. June 3, 1967
Writer. He was born in Leeds (England) and He became a friend of W.G. Collingwood, writer artist and secretary to John Ruskin. After an unsuccessful marriage, he went to Russia, where he met his future wife Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, who had been Trotsky's secretary. Then, they returned to England, and he become a famous childrens' writer, best known for his tales book "Swallows and Amazons." Other of his works "Six Weeks in Russia," "Old Peter's Russia Tales," "Pigeon Post," "Winter Holiday,"...[Read More] (Bio by: Jos� L Bernab� Tronchoni)
St Paul Churchyard, Rusland, Cumbria, England
Ruskin, John b. February 8, 1819 d. January 20, 1900
Author. A Victorian writer and critic, he is best known for his failed marriage.
St Andrew Churchyard, Coniston, Cumbria, England
Plot: NE corner of churchyard, beneath Ango-saxon cross
Spooner, William Archibald b. July 22, 1844 d. August 29, 1930
His unintentional verbal muddles, where he transposed words, letters and ideas, gave rise to the word "spoonerisms". Now most commonly used where the first letters of words are transposed - "You have hissed my mystery lecture", "You have tasted a whole worm" etc. He is unlikely to have uttered most of these. There are a number of well substantiated oddities of a more subtle kind: "Was it you or your brother who was killed in the Great War?" "He came to a sad end - eaten by missionaries!."
Cause of death: Died peacefully in his sleep
Grasmere Cemetery, Grasmere, Cumbria, England
Plot: Near the wall on the north side of the cemetery
Trevelyan, George Macaulay b. February 16, 1876 d. July 21, 1962
Author. He was the son of the Liberal politician, George Otto Trevelyan and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. After being educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he taught modern history. His early books included �Giribaldi' and �John Bright'. Although his older brother resigned from Asquith's government in protest at Britain's involvement in the First World War, George served in the British Army...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Chapel Stile, Cumbria, England
Plot: To the east of the church
Vasconcellos, Josefina de b. October 26, 1904 d. July 20, 2005
Artist. She was born in Molesey on Thames (Surrey) of brazilian father, and died in Blackpool. Her deep faith was reflected in her works. Among her works are 'Reconciliation' at Coventry Cathedral and Bradford University, 'Holy Family' at Liverpool Cathedral and Gloucester Cathedral, 'Mary and Child' at St Paul's Cathedral, London, and 'Nativity' at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Trafalgar Square, London. (Bio by: Jos� L Bernab� Tronchoni)
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Chapel Stile, Cumbria, England
Walpole, Hugh b. March 13, 1884 d. June 1, 1941
Novelist, Critic, and Dramatist. He was born in Auckburn (New Zealand) and died in Keswick (England). He lived in Cumbria from 1924 until his death in 1941, where he wrote a great deal, including his Cumberland family saga 'The Herries Chronicle' ('Rogue Herries', 'Judith Paris', 'The Fortress', and 'Vanessa'). He also wrote the 15 volumes of his diaries. He was knighted in 1938, three years before his death, of a heart attack brought on by over exertion doing volunteer war work in Keswick. His...[Read More] (Bio by: Jos� L Bernab� Tronchoni)
St John Churchyard, Keswick, Cumbria, England
Washington, Mildred b. 1671 d. March 26, 1701
Mildred Warner is the grandmother of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Mildred married Lawrence Washington. It was from this marriage in which Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, was born. After the death of Lawrence Washington, she married
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St Nicholas Churchyard, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Wassall, Samuel b. July 28, 1856 d. January 31, 1927
Zulu Wars Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Brimingham, England, he served as a Private in the 80th Regiment of Foot, Staffordshire Volunteers, British Army. On January 22, 1879, between actions during the Battle of Islandlwhana, Africa, when the camp position was taken by the enemy, Private Wassail retreated towards the Buffalo River with his unit. He saw a comrade struggling, and apparently drowning in the river, rode to the bank and dismounted his horse. Leaving his horse on the Zulu side...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Barrow Cemetery and Crematorium, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, England
Wordsworth, William b. April 7, 1770 d. April 23, 1850
Poet. Born in Cockermouth, England, he was the second of five children born to attorney John Wordsworth. The area in which Wordsworth would grow up in inspired him and gave him a love of nature. Wordsworth's mother died when he was eight and his father when he was thirteen. The death of his father would separate him from his sister, Dorothy, who was the most important person in his life. In later years, the two would reunite, and she would live with him for the rest of her life. Wordsworth...[Read More] (Bio by: Catharine)
St Oswald Churchyard, Grasmere, Cumbria, England

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