Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest

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is located in Putney Vale, surrounded by Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and

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. It is located within of parkland. The cemetery was opened in 1891 and the crematorium in 1938. The cemetery was originally laid out on land which had belonged to Newlands Farm, which was established in the medieval period. The cemetery has two chapels, one being a traditional

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chapel and the other being used for multi-denomination or non-religious services. It has a large Garden of Remembrance. There are 87 Commonwealth war grave burials from the

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and 97 from the

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in the cemetery. Six

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recipients have been buried or cremated here. 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 not marked by headstones. Those who have been cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium also have their names recorded on these panels.

Notable burials and cremations

Funerals held at Putney Vale include those of: * Ellinor Lily Davenport Adams, journalist and children's author * Major General

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, World War I

recipient * Julie Alexander, actress and model (cremated) *

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, Indian film actor (cremated, ashes scattered in

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, India) * Peter Arne, actor *

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, comedian and actor (cremated) *

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, Welsh actor and film producer (cremated, ashes scattered near Ferndale, Glamorgan) * Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside, British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria * Robert Beatty, actor (cremated) * Evelyn Beauchamp (née Herbert), one of the first people to enter the

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of the

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, actor noted for his role as

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, the Cockney

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in the BBC sitcom ''

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'' (cremated) * Admiral The 1st Baron Beresford, following state funeral at

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. * John Bindon, actor * Major-General Charles Guinand Blackader, WWI general * Lillian Board MBE, silver medal-winning Olympian (cremated) *

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, World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated) *

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, MP for

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(1906–1910) and major in Middlesex Yeomanry * Kate Carney, famed music hall singer and comedian *

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, archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of

. * Lt-Col. Sir Henry Dickonson Nightingale, 13th Baronet,

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Officer during

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in 1851-52 * Admiral Herbert Charles Campbell da Costa, Royal Navy flag officer in

* Sandy Denny, singer, songwriter and member of

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* Henry Fielding Dickens, barrister and the eighth of 10 children born to author

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and his wife Catherine. *

Clive Dunfee Beresford Clive Dunfee (1904 – 24 September 1932) was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1930s, who was killed in a dramatic accident at Brooklands. Dunfee was the third of four sons of Colonel Vickers Dunfee and the yo ...

, racing driver. * Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor. * Sid Field English comedy entertainer *

Golchin Gilani Majd-al-Din Mir-fakhraʾi ( fa, مجدالدین میرفخرایی January 1, 1910 in Rasht - December 20, 1972 in London), better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani ( fa, گلچین گیلانی), was an Iranian poet. Biography His birt ...

, 20th century Iranian poet. * Lieutenant Colonel Harry Greenwood, World War I Victoria Cross recipient * Kenelm Lee Guinness, local resident and member of Guinness brewing family, early motor racer and entrepreneur behind the famous Putney Vale-made KLG spark plugs * George Dickinson Hadley, gastroenterologist (cremated) * Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Hayward, World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated) * Eugen Hersch, artist and portrait painter whose subjects included President

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and

Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of ...

. * Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet, newspaper proprietor * James Hunt, Formula One

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world champion (cremated) * John Ingram, 32, a grave digger at Putney Vale who died in a freak accident, hit in the chest from a stray bullet from the rifle range at

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. Buried yards from where he fell, leaving a pregnant wife and infant daughter. Each year on 22 May, local resident John Cooper lays flowers on the man's grave. *

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, Anglo-American utilities magnate * J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of

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and a passenger of its ship RMS ''Titanic'', and wife Julia Florence Ismay * Hattie Jacques, comedy actress who appeared in many '' Carry On'' films (cremated). *

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, exiled former Russian prime minister and leading figure in the Russian revolution of 1917, until

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took over * Sir John Lambert CMG KCVO, soldier and diplomat *

Hazel, Lady Lavery Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery (née Martyn; 1880–1935) was a painter and the second wife of portrait artist Sir John Lavery. Her likeness appeared on banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th century.Sinead McCoole, ''Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery, ...

, painter * Sir John Lavery, painter *

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CBE, critically acclaimed film director * Rosa Lewis, hotelier of the Cavendish, Jermyn Street, known as the "Queen of Cooks" and "Duchess of Duke Street" * Sir John William Lorden, resident of Ravenswood, Putney Hill and former president of the National Federation of Property Owners and Ratepayers * Daniel Massey, Canadian-British actor and

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recipient * Hilary Minster, British actor * Kenneth More, character actor post-Second World War (cremated) * The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, politician, ashes buried here after cremation at

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, actor (''The Boys in the Band'') * Joe O'Gorman, music hall performer and founder of the Variety Artistes' Federation * Jennifer Paterson, TV chef of Two Fat Ladies fame (cremated) * Lance Percival, actor and singer (cremated) *

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, noted Doctor Who actor (cremated). *

Roy Plomley Francis Roy Plomley, ( ; 20 January 1914 – 28 May 1985) was an English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for devising the BBC Radio series '' Desert Island Discs'', which he hosted from its inception ...

OBE, creator of the world's longest running radio programme,

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's ''

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'' * Nyree Dawn Porter OBE, actress (cremated) * Sir Edward J. Reed, 19th-century constructor of the

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, MP, author and railway magnate *

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, former prime minister of Australia * Alfred Joseph Richards,

recipient of the

* Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of

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transmission by mosquitoes *

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, British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer *

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, pioneer naval aviator. *

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, the

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n known as the father of modern bodybuilding * Lieutenant Colonel

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Victoria Cross recipient * Richard Seaman, noted pre-Second World War

driver for

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, who still maintain his grave * Vladek Sheybal, a Polish character actor * Joan Sims, comedy actress including the '' Carry On'' films (cremated) * Edwin Tate, son of Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle sugar refining fame, in a family mausoleum inscribed with the family motto "Thincke and Thancke" * C. W. Stephens (c.1846–1917), British architect, best known for

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* Vesta Tilley, born Matilda Alice Powles, a

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, who was a star in both Britain and the US for over 30 years. *

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driver, 2 time Australian Super Prix winner, Entered the

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a record 15 times *

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, Australian, pre-war racing driver,

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Winner (cremated)

References

External links

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