Old Mortlake Burial Ground , also known as Old Mortlake Cemetery , is a cemetery in Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , at Avenue Gardens, London SW14 8BP. Established in 1854, and enlarged in 1877,[ 1] Richmond upon Thames Borough Council .
The cemetery contains Commonwealth war graves of 21 British service personnel, 19 from World War I and two from World War II .[ 2]
Notable burials
Notable people buried in Old Mortlake Burial Ground include:
Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800–1890), social reformer[ 3]
Rear Admiral Lord William FitzRoy (1782–1857), Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament. His grave is marked by an obelisk [ 1] Charles Dickens, Jr. (1837–1896), writer, editor, and eldest son of the famous novelist[ 3] Georgina Hogarth (1827–1917), sister-in-law, housekeeper, and adviser of novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of two volumes of his collected letters after his death[ 3] Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney (1814–1904), Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer[ 1]
Thomas German Reed (1817–1888), theatrical manager, composer, musical director, actor and singer who, with his wife Priscilla Horton (1818–1895), created the German Reed Entertainments , family-friendly musical plays "of a refined nature"[ 1]
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