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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]
Grave of Charles Dickens. Some of those buried in Poets' Corner also had memorials erected to them over or near their grave, either around the time of their death or later. In some cases, such as Joseph Addison, the burial took place elsewhere in Westminster Abbey, with a memorial later erected in Poets' Corner. In some cases a full burial of a ...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
The grave of Mary Gordon Burnett and Hugh Edward Walford who set up the successful Reading Blind Aid Society are also there. Miss Burnett is buried in the family grave with her father Henry Burnett. The family are associated with Charles Dickens with Henry being his brother-in-law and inspired the character of Nicholas Nickleby.
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There are 87 Commonwealth war grave burials from the First World War and 97 from the Second World War in the cemetery. Six Victoria Cross recipients have been buried or cremated here. [ 3 ] The burials are scattered throughout the grounds of the cemetery and a Screen Wall Memorial has been erected to record the names of those whose graves are ...
According to some sources, Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, whose name is said to have inspired Charles Dickens' character Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, is buried here. [6] [7] However, this theory is now known to be "a probable Dickens hoax" for which "[n]o one could find any corroborating evidence". [8]
Walter Landor Dickens, son of English novelist Charles Dickens. He was buried initially in Bhowanipore war cemetery, and the tombstone was later moved here in 1987. Grave no. 363 of an unknown woman (d. 1825) whose epitaph reads “A virtuous mother”.