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Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. [1] There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. [2] Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve.
The Tomb of Karl Marx stands in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, North London, England. It commemorates the burial sites of Karl Marx, of his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of his family. Originally buried in a different part of the Eastern cemetery, the bodies were disinterred and reburied at their present location in ...
Brompton Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven. The Magnificent Seven is an informal term applied to seven large private cemeteries in London. These are Kensal Green Cemetery, West Norwood Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery, Abney Park Cemetery, Brompton Cemetery, Nunhead Cemetery, and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
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His best known work was Highgate Cemetery, opened in 1839, and later to be his resting place, where he designed the Egyptian Avenue and the Terrace Catacombs: he was also founder of the London Cemetery Company, established by Act of Parliament in 1836, [3] which owned Highgate Cemetery and Nunhead Cemetery.
Mausoleum of Lord Dalziel of Wooler in Highgate Cemetery. He married Harriet, daughter of J. G. Dunning, in 1876. Dalziel died on 18 April 1928, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct. [2] In his will, which was only 140 words long, he left over £2,250,000 to Lady Dalziel, who herself died on 7 December 1938. [9]
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Highgate is best known for the Victorian Highgate Cemetery, in which the Communist philosopher Karl Marx and the novelist George Eliot are buried, along with many other notable people. [6] Adjoining is Holly Village, the first gated community, built in 1865, which is a Grade II* listed site. [7] [8]