Charlton cemetery
- This article is about the cemetery in south-east London; another Charlton Cemetery is located in Dover.
Charlton cemetery is a cemetery, opened in 1855, covering 15 acres of ground in Charlton, south-east London. Situated in Cemetery Lane to the east of Charlton Park, the cemetery has retained its Victorian layout, and features two 19th-century chapels and numerous military graves.[1]
It was originally created as "Gentleman's Cemetery" by Charlton Burial Board on eight acres of land that were formerly part of the estate of Sir Thomas Maryon-Wilson. A further seven acres was added in the 20th century. The two chapels are both 19th-century: the Church of England chapel is Early English style and has a stained glass west window (showing the Entombment) presented in 1865 by the local vicar; the Roman Catholic Chapel is in Decorated style.[2]
Graves
The graves and memorials include:
- Peter Barlow (mathematician) (1776-1862), and his civil engineer son William Henry Barlow (1812-1902).
- Sir Geoffrey Callender, the first director of the National Maritime Museum
- George Cooper (1844-1909) - London politician
- William Clark Cowie (d 1910) - administrator of Borneo
- Sir William Dalyell - who fought in the Napoleonic Wars
- Lt-Gen Sir William Dobbie (1879-1964) - veteran of the Second Boer War, and First and Second World Wars
- Frederick Hobson Leslie (1855-1892) - Actor and comedian
- Thomas Murphy (d 1932) - former owner of Charlton greyhound track (his memorial features two sleeping greyhounds)
- General Sir Charles Edward Nairne (1836-1899) - Commander-in-Chief, India.
- Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell
- Admiral George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont - a midshipman at the Battle of Trafalgar
- Sir John Maryon-Wilson - instrumental in the preservation of Hampstead Heath[2]
- Rachel O. Wingate (1901-1953) - linguist and missionary. The cemetery also contains a memorial to her brother Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) - head of the 'Chindits' in Burma - who is buried at Arlington, Washington, U.S.A.
The cemetery also contains the marked graves of 56 Commonwealth burials from the First World War (plus a memorial to two sailors and two soldiers in unmarked graves), and a further 55 from the Second World War. A War Cross faces the entrance to the cemetery.[3][4]
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