The first burial took place in 1853 but records for burials in the churchyard only survive from 1892.
Frances Margaret Taylor (1832–1900), who was founder of the Roman Catholic religious congregation the
Poor Servants of the Mother of God, was buried in the churchyard. Her remains were transferred in 1959 to the chapel at Maryfield Convent,
Roehampton. Over 80 sisters of the order are buried in the churchyard. •
Burials at St Mary Magdalen Other burials include: •
Mary Frances Ames (1853–1914), author and illustrator of children's books •
Arthur William à Beckett (1844–1909), English journalist and intellectual •
John Bernard Bagshawe (1827–1901), Catholic priest and author of
The Threshold of the Catholic Church •
Winifred Barnes (1892–1935), actress and singer known for her roles in
Edwardian musical comedy and operetta •
George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew (1857–1935), Irish peer who fought in the
Second Anglo-Afghan War, the
Nile Expedition and in the
Second Boer War •
John Francis Bentley (1839–1902), the architect of
Westminster Cathedral •
George Thomas Blount (1820–1899), for half a century president of the
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul •
Walter Blount (1807–1894), a long-serving officer of arms at the
College of Arms • Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), who together wrote about 40 works of poetry and verse drama and long journal
Works and Days, using the
pseudonym Michael Field; they were buried together in the churchyard. A now-lost marble tomb was erected in 1926. •
Sir Henry Moore Jackson (1849–1908), a
British Army officer and colonial governor • John J C Jones
C. B.,
C.V.O. (1839–1929), chief commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police in Dublin •
Alexander Kerr (1838–1909), Scottish banker who was the first manager for the
National Bank of New Zealand •
Ernest Law (1854–1930), historian and
barrister •
Henry Owen Lewis (1842–1913),
Irish Home Rule politician,
MP for
Carlow from 1874 to 1880 •
Donald MacGregor (1839–1911),
Scottish Liberal Party politician who, from 1892 to 1895, was a
Member of Parliament for the
Inverness-shire constituency • Fr
Henry Augustus Rawes (1826–1885), Catholic hymn writer and preacher • The artists
Adrian Stokes (1854–1935) and his wife
Marianne Stokes (1855–1927), who was considered one of the leading women artists in Victorian England •
Leonard Stokes (1858–1925), architect who designed many Roman Catholic buildings, including churches, convents and schools, as well as country houses and around 20 telephone exchanges. In 1919 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, having served as its president from 1910 to 1912. • Leonard Stokes' brother
Sir Frederick Wilfrid Stokes (1860–1927), an engineer and inventor in 1915 of the
Stokes mortar, which saw extensive use in the latter half of the
First World War Sir Richard and Lady Burton The cemetery includes a
Grade II* listed tent-shaped
mausoleum of
Carrara marble and
Forest of Dean stone,
Comte de Vezlo Mausoleum The cemetery includes another mausoleum, commemorating the very young Comte de Vezlo, Guilaume Henri (1894–1901). A plaque near the mauseolum's entrance also commemorates his mother, Annette Rosamonde Blasio, the Comtesse de Vezlo, who died in 1938. The architect is not known.
Sir James Marshall Sir James Marshall (1829–1889), a British colonial judge who helped the spread of Roman Catholicism in
Ghana and
Nigeria, is buried in the churchyard cemetery. His wife Alice (
née Young) died in 1926 and is also buried in the churchyard. A memorial plaque inside the church was unveiled on 11 August 1999, 100 years after his death. The Knights and Ladies of Marshall, a lay association of
Ghanaian Catholics, visit the church in Mortlake annually to celebrate a
Mass in his memory. ==Gallery==