Ashes at Golders Green Crematorium Among those whose ashes are retained or were scattered here, are: •
Richard Addinsell, English composer (ashes scattered in communal section of crocus lawn) •
Larry Adler, American harmonica player •
Kingsley Amis, British writer, one of the
Angry young men •
Boris Anrep, Russian artist •
Pegaret Anthony, British artist •
Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British soldier, VC recipient • Sir
Edward Battersby Bailey, geologist •
Lionel Bart, composer of
Oliver! and many other shows and songs •
Ronnie Biggs, criminal and participant of
The Great Train Robbery of 1963 •
Eric Blom, British musicologist •
Simon Blumenfeld, writer and columnist •
Enid Blyton, children's author (
Famous Five, Noddy) •
Marc Bolan, musician, poet and writer (founder of
T. Rex) •
Bernard Bresslaw,
Carry On film series actor •
Arthur Brough, actor •
George Brown, Baron George-Brown, Labour party politician, ultimately Foreign Secretary. •
Jack Bruce, Scottish composer, musician and member of
Cream •
Mrs Victor Bruce, racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator •
Bella Burge, music hall performer and boxing promoter • Sir
Neville Cardus, notable cricket writer, also distinguished music critic •
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe, English colonial administrator and writer •
Eric Coates, English composer of light music •
Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer •
Steve Conway, singer •
Cicely Courtneidge, actress and comedian •
Walter Crane, English artist and book illustrator •
Tony Crombie, English jazz musician •
Victor Dandré, Russian impresario and husband of Anna Pavlova •
Ed Devereaux, Australian actor •
James Dewar, British chemist and physicist (inventor of the
Dewar flask or
vacuum flask) •
Edith Durham, writer, traveller and anthropologist •
Ray Ellington, English musician •
Havelock Ellis, intellectual • Dame
Millicent Fawcett, leader of the
suffragist movement •
Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (there is a rosebed in her memory) •
Molly Fink, Australian socialite and wife of Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman of Pudukkottai. •
Bud Flanagan, singer and Crazy Gang star •
George Frampton, British sculptor •
Lynne Frederick, actress •
Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, also a psychoanalyst, especially of children •
Sigmund and
Martha Freud, father of modern psychoanalysis and his wife •
Ernest George, English architect (and who designed this crematorium with Alfred Yeates) •
Simon Gipps-Kent, English actor, Crocus Lawn, Section 3H •
Elinor Glyn, English romantic novelist and scriptwriter. •
Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian born architect and designer of furniture •
Charles Gray, English actor •
Hughie Green, Canadian born quiz show host •
Arthur Greenwood, English
Labour politician (ashes and memorial, Bay 17 of the East Boundary Wall) •
Joyce Grenfell, actress and comedian •
John Gross, writer •
Irene Handl, actress and comedian •
Tommy Handley, British comedian •
Robert Harbin, South African born magician and writer •
Cedric Hardwicke, English actor •
Jack Hawkins, actor •
Tubby Hayes, English jazz musician •
Ian Hendry, actor •
Patrick Hennessy, Irish Realist Artist •
Dezo Hoffmann, Slovak photographer of actors and rock stars including the Beatles •
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, British Conservative politician •
Lady Margaret Huggins and her husband Sir
William Huggins, astronomers •
Ralph Ince, American film actor, director and screenwriter •
Gordon Jackson, actor •
Alex James, footballer •
Sid James, South African-born actor,
Bless This House and
Carry On film series star •
Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, architect •
Jimmy Jewel, comedian •
Yootha Joyce, actress •
Geoffrey Keen, actor •
Barbara Keogh, actress •
Albert William Ketèlbey, English composer, conductor and pianist •
Johnny Kidd, singer •
David Kossoff, actor, writer, and campaigner •
Paul Kossoff, musician (guitarist with
Free, among others) •
Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, former Lord Chief Justice of England, drowned in fishing accident. •
Doris Lessing, writer, 2007
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate •
Percy Wyndham Lewis, artist and writer •
William Howard Livens, military engineer and inventor •
Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright and screenwriter •
Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-born British sociologist, founder of the
sociology of knowledge •
Moore Marriott, British comic actor •
Mary Millar, British actress and singer •
Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman,
Raja of
Pudukkottai 1886–1928 •
Janet Munro, actress, wife of actor Ian Hendry (above) •
Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore, British soldier, politician and
VC winner •
Ivor Novello, actor, writer and lyricist •
Seán O'Casey, Irish playwright •
Joe Orton, playwright •
Betty Papworth, communist and anti-war activist •
Val Parnell, impresario •
Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina •
Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Great Britain • Baron
Albert Profumo, Barrister •
Marie Rambert, ballerina and founder of
Rambert Dance Company •
Edith Rosenbaum, First Class survivor of the sinking of
RMS Titanic •
William Rust, Communist activist, editor of
The Daily Worker •
Ronnie Scott, British jazz musician •
Phil Seamen, British jazz musician •
Peter Sellers, actor and comedian •
Geoffrey Shaw, composer •
Ella Shields, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator •
Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon, abolitionist •
Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist •
Bram Stoker, Irish writer (
Dracula) •
John Stride, actor •
Mollie Sugden, actress, best known for
Are You Being Served? •
A. J. P. Taylor, historian •
Sir Mowbray Thomson, K.C.S.I, British East India Company general and author •
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, surgeon and founder of the Cremation Society of England •
Tommy Vance, British broadcaster •
Conrad Veidt, German actor, following cremation in the US •
Vesta Victoria, music hall performer • Dame
Barbara Windsor,
Carry On film series,
EastEnders actress •
Bernie Winters, comedian •
Victoria Wood, British comedian •
Maurice Woodruff, English clairvoyant, following cremation in Singapore •
Peter Wyngarde, actor
Ashes taken elsewhere Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are: •
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress, ashes scattered in the Great Garden at
New Place,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire •
Arnold Bennett, novelist, ashes buried at
Burslem Cemetery, Staffordshire •
Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician, ashes removed to
Westminster Abbey • Sir
Alfred Billson (1839–1907), Liberal MP, ashes buried at
Kensal Green Cemetery. •
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, daughter of
Charles Bradlaugh, atheist and freethinking author and peace campaigner, ashes buried in
Brookwood Cemetery. •
Horatio Bottomley, British Liberal, later Independent, M.P., journalist, swindler, ashes scattered on
Sussex Downs •
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, Irish born British Conservative politician ashes scattered on
Romney Marshes. •
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, British jurist and Liberal politician, ashes buried at Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. •
Neville Chamberlain, British Conservative politician and Prime Minister, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey •
Alan J. Charig, British Palaeontologist, ashes scattered with his wife’s at Woldingham Viewpoint near Oxted, Surrey. •
Peter Cook, British actor and comedian, ashes buried in an unmarked plot behind
St. John's Church in
Hampstead. •
Bebe Daniels, American actress, singer and writer, with her husband,
Ben Lyon, at the
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood •
Sir Charles Dilke, Radical Liberal MP, his ashes were buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. •
Ian Dury, English singer-lyricist, best known for No. 1 hit "
Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", his ashes have reputedly been scattered in the
Thames, there is a memorial bench in
Richmond Park •
T. S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, ashes in St Michael's Church in
East Coker, Somerset •
Lily Elsie, actress (location of ashes unknown) •
Barry Evans, English actor (location of ashes unknown) •
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet, ashes buried at
Kilverstone, Norfolk. •
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal, ashes buried at
Ripple, Kent. • Sir
Edward German, composer, ashes buried at
Whitchurch, Shropshire. •
David Gest, Music producer, Comedian and Television personality. Funeral service held at Golders Green Crematorium on 29 April 2016, His ashes were scattered in
York. •
W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and author, who with
Arthur Sullivan wrote the
Savoy operas, ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist,
Stanmore. •
Sir Charles Henry, expatriate Australian businessman and Liberal
Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament, ashes buried
Willesden Jewish Cemetery. •
Richard Hillary, Anglo-Australian RAF fighter ace, ashes scattered over English Channel. He is listed on Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial. •
Reginald Hine, British historian, ashes scattered at
Minsden Chapel •
Eric Hobsbawm, British historian, ashes interred at
Highgate Cemetery • Professor Louis Hoffmann (Angelo John Lewis), author of "
Modern Magic" (1876) and other books on magic, games, amusements and puzzles. Funeral service and cremation took place at Golders Green on 29 December 1919, location of ashes unknown. •
Gary Holton, actor best known as the star of
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his ashes rest in Maesgwastad Cemetery,
Welshpool, Montgomeryshire •
Kenneth Horne, comedian and businessman, star of
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh,
Beyond Our Ken and
Round the Horne, ashes buried at
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire. •
A.E. Housman, classical scholar and poet, author of
A Shropshire Lad, ashes interred outside
St Laurence's Church, Ludlow,
Shropshire, England •
John Inman, actor, star of
Are You Being Served?, location of ashes unknown •
Henry Irving, stage actor in the
Victorian era, ashes removed to
Westminster Abbey •
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, Liberal politician and lawyer, ashes buried at the nearby
Jewish cemetery •
Henry James, American-born British novelist, ashes buried at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. •
Jerome K. Jerome, writer, ashes buried at St Mary's Churchyard,
Ewelme, Oxfordshire •
Kenrick Hymans ("Snakehips") Johnson, Guyanese-born British jazz band leader, cremated here, ashes removed to chapel of
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School,
Marlow, Buckinghamshire •
Adrian Jones, sculptor of various war and other military memorials, ashes interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow. •
Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, •
Hetty King, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator. •
Rudyard Kipling, British author and poet, ashes removed to Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey • Sir
Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film producer, ashes buried at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire. •
Verity Lambert, television producer. •
Vivien Leigh, English actress, ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near
Blackboys, Sussex •
Alice Liddell, ashes removed to
Lyndhurst, Hampshire (see ''
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''). • Lieutenant General
Samuel Lomax, died of wounds World War I, ashes buried at
Aldershot Military Cemetery •
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, ashes buried at the
Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore •
Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, the first member of the
British royal family to be cremated, ashes buried at the
Royal Burial Ground at
Frogmore •
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, ashes scattered at sea at
Port Vendres, France. •
James Leslie Mitchell, Scottish author, who also wrote as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ashes interred in the cemetery at
Arbuthnott in
Kincardineshire. •
Matt Monro, singer, ashes removed by the family •
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Liberal politician, ashes buried at
Putney Vale Cemetery. •
Peter O'Toole, actor and author, cremated on 21 December 2013 in a wicker coffin, ashes scattered in
Connemara, Ireland. •
Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, anti-war activist, ashes taken to
Frieth •
H. G. Pelissier, actor, composer and satirist, ashes rest in
Marylebone Cemetery •
Admiral of the Fleet Sir
Dudley Pound, ashes, with those of his wife, scattered at sea; commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial here. •
King Prajadhipok of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in the
Grand Palace,
Bangkok. •
Wendy Richard, English actress, ashes interred at
East Finchley Cemetery •
Arnold Ridley, author and actor, ashes rest in
Bath Abbey Cemetery •
Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, politician and hereditary peer, President of the Cremation Society. Ashes buried at
St Michael's Church, Chenies, Buckinghamshire. •
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey. •
Shapurji Saklatvala, Indian-born
Labour and
Communist Member of the British Parliament. Cremated here, ashes buried at the Parsi burial ground in
Brookwood Cemetery. •
Dorothy L. Sayers, novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Her ashes are buried at the base of the tower of
St Anne's Church, Soho. •
Richard Bowdler Sharpe, zoologist, founder of the
British Ornithologists' Club and Assistant Keeper of the
British Museum •
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) Indian princess and suffragette, daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab. Cremated here, ashes scattered in the Punjab. •
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, lawyer-statesman, ashes buried at
Charlton, Northamptonshire. • Sir
Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, ashes buried in Westminster Abbey. •
Vivian Stanshall, founding member of the
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, artist, poet and broadcaster. His ashes are in the possession of his wife and daughter. A memorial plaque is in the crematorium's Poets' Corner, unveiled on 13 December 2015. • Air Vice Marshal Sir
Frederick Sykes, early Royal Air Force commander and Conservative politician, cremated here, ashes scattered on
Salisbury Plain. •
Ellen Terry, actress, ashes kept at
St Paul's, Covent Garden, London •
James Henry Thomas (1874–1949), Labour cabinet minister and railwaymen's trade union leader, ashes buried at
Swindon, Wiltshire. •
H. G. Wells, English author, ashes scattered at sea •
Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, ashes buried in North Aisle, Westminster Abbey •
Amy Winehouse, singer-songwriter, ashes buried at
Edgwarebury Cemetery, alongside her grandmother. •
Szmul Zygielbojm, Polish-Jewish political activist who committed suicide in London, in 1943, as a protest against international indifference towards
the Holocaust. His ashes were transferred to
New York in 1961 by fellow members of the Bund Jewish Organization. == Gallery ==