Find A Grave - Warwickshire

Godiva, Lady b. September 5, 990 d. September 10, 1067
Folk Figure. Though some facts remain shrouded in mystery, she has come down to us as an English noblewoman who allegedly rode naked thru the streets of Coventry to protest her husband's tax policies. Undisputedly, Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, "Godiva" being a Latin version of the Old English name "Godgifu", meaning "gift of God". The couple appear in numerous records of the time and were quite wealthy, sponsoring multiple religious institutions including, in 1043, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Benedictine Monastery, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Goodfellow, Charles Augustus b. November 29, 1836 d. September 1, 1915
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient.
Leamington Cemetery, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Greville, Fulke b. October 3, 1554 d. September 30, 1628
Statesman, Author. The son of Sir Fulke Greville, 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke, he was born in Warwickshire, England, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Cambridge University. He was a close friend of Sir Philip Sidney. Greville was a favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1597 and made him a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. After serving four terms in Parliament, he was Treasurer of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
St Mary Churchyard, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Griffiths, Richard b. July 31, 1947 d. March 28, 2013
Actor. He will be best remembered for playing Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter's saga and for the role of Uncle Monty in "Withnail and I". He began his career as an actor from an early age playing roles very different from each and during his career that spanned more than four decades, he starred in over one hundred films and television work. Well known his role as Henry Crabbe in the British TV series of the early 90s, "Pie in the Sky", he also starred in several major productions such as "...[Read More] (Bio by: Ruggero)
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Hailwood, Mike b. April 2, 1940 d. March 23, 1981
Sportsman. The son of a wealthy Oxford motorcycle dealer, Stan Hailwood, he began racing motorcycles competitively in 1957. By 1961 he was riding for the MV Agusta factory, winning four 500cc World Championships. He then moved to Honda in 1966 and won four more World Championships in the 250 and 350cc classes. Twelve TT wins on the Isle of Man were added to his successes. He left two wheels and moved to F5000, sports cars and Formula 1 but never quite attained the success he'd previously had...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul Narramore)
St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England
Hathaway, Anne b. 1556 d. 1623
Wife of playwright and poet William Shakespeare. She was the daughter of Richard Hathaway, a Shottery farmer, who left her the farm 'at the day of her marriage' when he died in 1581. She married William Shakespeare in November 1582 and they had three children: Susanna in May 1583, followed by twins Hamnet and Judith two years later. Hamnet, the Shakespeare's only son, died in 1596 at eleven years of age. (Bio by: Kelley Costigan)
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Plot: The Chancel
Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot b. May 12, 1910 d. July 29, 1994
Chemist and crystallographer. She graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry and moved to Cambridge as a research scientist where in 1933 she became the first scientist to make an X-ray diffraction photograph of a protein. Returning to Oxford to take up a fellowship at Somerville College Oxford she continued her research and development of X-ray crystallography, subsequently discovering the structure of penicillin (1949), Vitamin B12 (1964) and insulin (1969). She was...[Read More] (Bio by: mynwent)
St Mary the Virgin, Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Plot: To left side when facing front of church
Hutt, Arthur b. February 12, 1889 d. April 14, 1964
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient.
Canley Garden Cemetery and Crematorium, Canley, Warwickshire, England
Knight, Sgt. Alfred Joseph b. August 24, 1888 d. December 4, 1960
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Birmingham, England, he served as a Sergeant in the 2/8th Battalion, London Regiment, British Army. On September 20, 1917, at Ypres, Belgium, when Sergeant Knight's platoon came under very heavy fire from an enemy machine-gun, he rushed and captured it single-handed. Later when all the platoon officers of the company had become casualties, he took command of not only of all the men of his own platoon but of the platoons without officers...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oscott College Road Cemetery, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England
Landor, Walter Savage [memorial] b. January 30, 1775 d. September 17, 1864
Author. Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, the son of a wealthy doctor. He was educated at Rugby School, from which he was expelled, possibly for writing an indecent poem, and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he was, again, expelled, this time for firing a gun into the room of a Tory undergraduate. After a quarrel with his father, he moved to Wales, with "one servant and a chest of books." His first volume of poems appeared the following year (1775). His father died in 1805, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
St Mary Churchyard, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Leahy, Mick b. March 12, 1935 d. January 5, 2010
Professional Boxer. He shall be remembered as one of the few men to beat the great Sugar Ray Robinson. Raised in Cork, Ireland, he had a successful amateur career becoming Irish lightweight champion. After moving to Coventry, England, in the 1950s he worked construction and turned professional on October 22, 1956, with a first round knockout of Steve Gee. Kept busy on both sides of the Atlantic he spent most of 1959 fighting in Australia and New Zealand, took British citizenship in 1961, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Canley Garden Cemetery and Crematorium, Canley, Warwickshire, England
Leofric, Earl of Mercia d. September 30, 1057
Folk Figure. Earl of Mercia, husband of Lady Godiva. He was awarded the earldom of Mercia by King Cnut following the death of the first Earl, Eadric, in 1017. As Earl of Mercia he was second in importance only to Earl Godwin of Wessex. He was a loyal supporter of Edward the Confessor, who succeeded Cnut's unpopular son, Harthacanute, in 1043, and helped raise an army to halt the hostile advance of Earl Godwin in 1051. The dispute was settled by diplomatic means, however, and Godwin was sent...[Read More] (Bio by: js)
Benedictine Monastery, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Lowe, Arthur b. September 22, 1915 d. April 15, 1982
British-born stage, motion picture, and television actor. Highly skilled in comic roles, he is fondly remembered as the pompous 'Captain Mainwaring' in the hit BBC TV series "Dads Army." He also played the part of 'Leonard Swindley' for many years on the popular "Coronation Street." (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Sutton Coldfield Crematorium, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England
Plot: Ashes scattered in area DL1
Morton, Anthony b. 1927 d. January 15, 2001
British Actor. Film and television credits include "The Ripper,""Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense," "Dempsey & Makepeace," "Only Fools and Horses," "Terry and June," "The Professionals," "The Sweeney,""Softly Softly," "Oh! What a Lovely War,""Crossroads," and "The Saint." (Bio by: Genet)
Birmingham Crematorium, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Newman, John Henry b. February 21, 1801 d. August 11, 1890
Roman Catholic Cardinal, Poet, Author. He was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1824 and became a major figure of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement in the Church of England. He found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his protestant faith with the teachings of the early fathers of the Christian Church and was finally received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He wrote a number of influential works including 'Apologia Pro Vita Sua' (1865) and 'The Grammar of Assent' (1870). He also...[Read More] (Bio by: L.Moon)
Rednal Roman Catholic Cemetery, Rednal, Warwickshire, England
Oken, Thomas d. 1573
Mercer in Warwick, master of the guild of the Holy Trinity & St. George, Baliff of Warwick & a Burgess in the town.
St Mary Churchyard, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Parker, Charles Edward Haydon b. March 10, 1870 d. December 5, 1918
2nd Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in London, England, he served as a Sergeant in Q Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army. In actions at Korn Spruit South Africa, on March 31, 1900, a British force including two batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery, was retiring from Thabanchu towards Bloemfontein when the enemy formed an ambush. When the alarm was given that the guns and their limbers to be run back by hand to a safe place, Sergeant Parker with two comrades succeeded in...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
London Road Cemetery, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Parr, William b. 1512 d. October 28, 1571
English Aristocracy. Born the son of Sir Thomas Parr and Maud Green, and brother to Katherine Parr. He was said to have loved poetry, music, and living well. He married Anne Bourchier, Baroness Bourchier, the daughter of Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex, in February 1526. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire and was made Baron Parr of Kendal in 1539. In April 1543, he obtained an Act of Parliament, repudiating his wife for adultery, and declaring her children belonged to...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
St Mary Churchyard, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Powell, Enoch b. June 16, 1912 d. February 8, 1998
Influential British Tory politican and poet. Born John Enoch Powell in the English city of Birmingham, Powell studied classics at Cambridge University and became Professor of Greek at Sydney University in Australia in 1937 at the age of just 25. He returned to England at the beginning of World War II and enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire regiment, quickly rising through the ranks from private to brigadier. On leaving the army, at the end of the war, he worked as a political researcher for the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kieran Smith)
Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Puckering, Sir Thomas b. 1592 d. 1636
Son of Sir John Puckering (speaker of the House of Commons), companion of Henry, Prince of Wales, member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Warwickshire 1625.
St Mary Churchyard, Warwick, Warwickshire, England

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