People buried at the cemetery include: •
Phinehas Abraham (c.1812–1887), a West Indian merchant born in Jamaica and one of its largest landed proprietors. He was senior
justice of the peace for
Trelawny Parish in Jamaica and an agent of
Lloyd's of London. He was also one of the earliest members of West London Synagogue. •
Montague Durlacher (1824–1894), who, in 1869, was appointed surgeon-
chiropodist to
Queen Victoria's household, in succession to his father
Lewis Durlacher (c.1792–1864). Both men are buried at the cemetery, as is Lewis's wife Susannah (c.1798–1874) who was Montague's mother. •
Ney Elias (1844–1897), English explorer, geographer and diplomat, most known for his extensive travels in Asia. Modern scholars speculate that he was a key intelligence agent for Britain during the
Great Game. Elias travelled extensively in the
Karakoram,
Hindu Kush,
Pamirs and
Turkestan regions of
High Asia. •
Amy Levy (1861–1889), essayist, poet, and novelist, who was the second Jewish woman at
Cambridge University and the first Jewish woman to be cremated in England; her ashes were interred at this cemetery •
Joseph Moses Levy (1812–1888), newspaper editor and publisher. He was chief proprietor of
The Sunday Times and also managed
The Daily Telegraph. • Reverend
David Woolf Marks (1811–1909), Hebrew scholar and minister, who was the first religious leader of the West London Synagogue •
Annette Salaman (1827–1879), writer, who compiled a collection of comforting scriptural texts which were published in 1873 as an illustrated guide to the Bible entitled
Footsteps on the Way of Life. She was also the author of
How to Earn a Good Name (1876) and ''Aunt Annette's Stories to Ada'' (1876), a series of tales for children. •
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), mathematician and
Savilian Professor of Geometry at the
University of Oxford. Sylvester made fundamental contributions to
matrix theory,
invariant theory,
number theory,
partition theory and
combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the second half of the 19th century as a professor at the
Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the
American Journal of Mathematics. •
Simon Waley (1827–1875), a leading broker on the
London Stock Exchange and a prominent amateur musician. He was a leading figure in the Jewish community during the period of the emancipation of the Jews from
civil disabilities.
Goldsmid family • Sir
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778–1859), financier and one of the leading figures in the
Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom • Frederick's sister
Rachel, Countess d'Avigdor (1816–1896), philanthropist and communal worker, who was the second daughter of Isabel and Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid • Frederick and Caroline's son Sir
Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet (1838–1896), lawyer, businessman, and art collector. He became a Liberal (later
Liberal Unionist) MP and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. and was an early member of its council. •
Frederick David Mocatta (1828–1905), financier and philanthropist.
Stern family •
David Jacob de Stern, Viscount de Stern, (1807–1877), German-born British banker and senior partner of the firm of Stern Brothers •
Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham (1851–1919), financier, philanthropist and a member of the Stern banking family ==See also==