Streatham Cemetery is a cemetery on Garratt Lane in

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, London; it is one of three cemeteries managed by

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, the others being

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and

Lambeth Cemetery Lambeth Cemetery is a cemetery in Tooting, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is one of three cemeteries owned by Lambeth London Borough Council, the others being West Norwood Cemetery and Streatham Cemetery. History Like nearby Streatham ...

. Both Streatham and Lambeth Cemeteries are located within the

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History

Under the Metropolitan Burial Act of 1852, which followed the second cholera epidemic of 1848–49, the Streatham Burial Board acquired the land for a cemetery in what was countryside at the time. The cemetery opened for burials in 1894 and was provided with two lodges and two mirror-image chapels built in the

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style by William Newton Dunn. The cemetery was subjected to extensive "lawn conversion" from 1969 to 1991 and many monuments were removed. No new graves are available in the cemetery but burial in existing family plots is allowed. The cemetery has a large number of burials of casualties from

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(218) and

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(167) which are maintained by the

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Notable burials

* Sir Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906), artist, author and poet * Edward Foster VC (1886–1946), winner of the

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during

* Frederick Hackwood (1851–1926), antiquarian *

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(1885–1964), Polish independence activist and politician *

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( 1819–1914), First Lady of Liberia * Charlie Wilson (1932–1990), one of the gang who committed the Great Train Robbery of 1963Douglas Greenwood, ''Who's Buried Where in England'', Constable, London (2006) pg 345

References

External links

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Streatham Cemetery on London Cemeteries
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