Acton Cemetery is an historic late–Victorian burial ground in the

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. Managed by

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, the site is located in North Ealing, near to North Acton Underground Station. History The land for the Cemetery was purchased in 1893 by the Acton Urban District Council. It was previously part of Lower Place Farm. Two chapels were built in 1895, and the 6.5 acres were consecrated and opened for burials that year. The Metropolitan District Railway (now the Central Line) was built through the site in 1903, dividing the cemetery into two halves, connected by a metal bridge. More stations along the line as a result of the construction of a new Royal Agricultural Show site made the cemetery more accessible. Opened in 1903 by the Prince of Wales, the show site gave its name to the area now known as Park Royal The cemetery has a war memorial, and 143 graves relating to WWI and WWII are recorded at the site by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Notable People Buried & Memorialised * The watercolour artist

Henry Charles Brewer Henry Charles Brewer (1866–1950) was a British painter well known in the first half of the 20th century for his watercolour landscapes and architectural paintings. Family and early life Born on 25 May 1866 in Wurzburg, Bavaria, Henry Charle ...

(1866–1950) lived on Perryn Road in Acton. Brewer executed the wall paintings at

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. He is buried in the northern section of the cemetery, near to his brother

James Alphege Brewer James Alphege Brewer (1881-1946) was a well-known early 20th century producer of colour etchings - notably of English and European Cathedrals and churches and other scenes. Family & Early Life Brewer was born on 24th July 1881, in Kensington, ...

. * The notable creator of etchings,

(1881–1946), who lived on Avenue Road in Acton is buried in the northern section of the cemetery, near to his brother

. * Sir

K. A. C. Creswell Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (13 September 1879 – 8 April 1974) was an English architectural historian who wrote some of the seminal works on Islamic architecture in Egypt. Early life Creswell was born on 13 September 1879 in Lon ...

(1879–1974), was an English architectural historian who wrote seminal works on Islamic architecture in Egypt. *

Jamal Edwards Jamal Edwards (24 August 1990 – 20 February 2022) was a British music entrepreneur, DJ and founder of the online R&B/Hip-Hop platform SB.TV. Edwards was an ambassador for the Prince's Trust, a youth charity which helps young people set up ...

(1990–2022). English music entrepreneur. Served as an ambassador for the

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and awarded an

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in 2015. *

Francis Robert Japp Francis Robert Japp FRS (8 February 1848 – 1 August 1925) was a British chemist who discovered the Japp-Klingemann reaction in 1887. He was born in Dundee, Scotland, the son of James Japp, a minister of the Catholic Apostolic Church. He grad ...

(1848–1925), was a British chemist noted for his discovery of the Japp–Klingemann reaction in 1887. * Sir Samuel Lewis (barrister) (1843–1903), was the first West African to be knighted in Great Britain, and a founder of modern Sierra Leone. * Albert Norris Perry, who died in 1915 in the sinking of the ''Lusitania''. His memorial has a lifebelt around it. * George Lee Temple (1892–1914). Born in Acton, Temple was first Englishman to fly upside down and the youngest at the time (1914) to fly from London to Paris. * Susan Mary Yeats (d. 1900). Yeats was the mother of Nobel Prize Winner for literature and poet,

William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

. She died in France and is buried in Drumcliff.

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