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East Finchley Cemetery

East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East End Road, East Finchley. Although it is in the London Borough of Barnet, it is owned and managed by the City of Westminster.

History and characteristics
The St Marylebone Burial Board purchased of Newmarket Farm in 1854; This was purchased by the London Cremation Company. The cemetery contains a number of structures listed on the National Heritage List for England. The Anglican chapel was designed by Barnett and Birch and is a Grade II listed chapel, as is the crematorium. The gates and lodge are also Grade II listed. The monuments to Thomas Skarratt Hall (supposedly based on the Sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, it originally had four bronze angels, which were stolen in 1989), Harry Ripley (by William Reid Dick), Peter Nicol Russell, Thomas Tate (by Frank Lynn Jenkins), and the mausoleum (by Arthur Blomfield) of Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk and his wife and son, are all Grade II listed. The cemetery was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2007, 2008 and 2009. ==Notable burials & cremations ==
Notable burials & cremations
Melanie Appleby – Mel in pop duo Mel and KimGeorge Barham – founder of the Express County Milk CompanyHenry Walter Bates – Naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals • Jeremy Beadle – TV presenter (cremated here, ashes later interred in Highgate Cemetery) • Louisa Sarah Bevington - anarchist and poet • Sir Henry Bishop – Professor of Music at Oxford and operatic composer • Sir George HayterQueen Victoria's principal painter in ordinary • Humphrey Lyttelton – English jazz musician and broadcaster (cremated) • Jimmy Nervo – entertainer and part of the original Crazy Gang • Sir James Paget – English surgeon and pathologist after whom Paget's disease is named • Sidney Paget – Illustrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories • Wendy Richard – Actress, previously cremated at Golders Green CrematoriumW. Heath Robinson – Artist and cartoonist • Gaynor Rowlands – Actress and Singer • Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, of Stratford Place – eminent British surgeon, Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria and honorary Serjeant-Surgeon to Edward VIIHenry Charles Stephens – Ink magnate, philanthropist and local MP • Thomas Stevens – Cyclist, the first one to circle the globe by bicycle • Marie Studholme – Actress and Singer • Leopold Stokowski – Conductor • William Bernhardt Tegetmeier – English naturalist, bee keeper and friend of Charles DarwinLittle Tich – Music Hall singer and dancer • Mathilde Verne – English pianist and teacher (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) • George Walters – Sergeant in the 49th Foot who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Inkermann in 1854 • Kenneth Williams – Actor and comedian (cremated) • Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke – British diplomat and Conservative politician. • Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of HardwickeChampagne Charlie – British aristocrat and Conservative politician • 's gravestone.Bertold Wiesner – Austrian-British physiologist and fertility researcher ==War graves==
War graves
There are 75 Commonwealth service war burials of World War I in the cemetery, most in the War Graves plot in the cemetery's northwest corner that was set aside for military burials in 1916, and 79 of World War II (including two unidentified British soldiers), besides ten 'Non War graves' that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains. A Screen Wall memorial, behind the Cross of Sacrifice, records the names of the 20 World War II casualties who were cremated at the St Marylebone Crematorium. There are also special memorials to eight World War I servicemen whose graves could not be marked by headstones. ==Transport==
Transport
The cemetery on East End Road is situated near the North Circular Road (A406) and lies between East Finchley and Finchley Central stations, both on the Northern Line. Access by stairway is possible from bus stops on the North Circular Road. ==See also==
Gallery
File:Monument to Thomas Tate 2.jpg|Monument to Sir Thomas and Esther Tate File:Glensk Mausoleum 1.jpg|The Glenesk Mausoleum File:Monument to Harry Ripley 2.jpg|Monument to Harry Ripley ==References==
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