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Tottenham Cemetery is a large burial ground in
Tottenham
Tottenham () is a town in North London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton to the north, Waltham ...
in the
London Borough of Haringey
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, in
north London
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The term ''nort ...
, England. It was opened in 1858 by the Tottenham Burial Board to replace the churchyard of
All Hallows' Church, Tottenham
All Hallows is an Anglican church in Tottenham, North London. It is one of the oldest buildings in the London Borough of Haringey, having been built as All Saints' Church in the 12th century, then re-dedicated as All Hallows in the 15th century ...
which had closed the previous year. The original five-acre site was not entirely consecrated, with two acres designated for non-Church of England burials.
Chapels
The cemetery contains two original chapels, one built for Anglican services and one for other denominations. The buildings were designed by the architect George Pritchett in an early Gothic style. They were constructed primarily of
Kentish ragstone, but include
Bath stone
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dressings.
War graves
The cemetery contains the
Commonwealth war graves
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of 293 service personnel of
World War I
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, most of whom are buried in a war graves plot on the western side of the cemetery, backed by a screen wall listing those buried in the plot and elsewhere in the cemetery whose graves could not be individually marked. Most of the 212 war graves from
World War II
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are scattered in the cemetery but 30 of them lie in a small plot facing the World War I plot. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on supplementary panels on the screen wall.
Notable burials
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Robert Brett
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Early life
Robert George Brett was born on ...
(1808–1874), an English surgeon and writer of devotional books, involved with the
tractarian movement
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.
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John Eliot Howard (1807–1883), an English chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of
quinine
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William Butterfield
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Biography
William Butterfield was born in Lon ...
(1814–1900), a
Gothic Revival architect (tomb now a listed monument)
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Thomas Bidgood
Thomas Bidgood (7 October 1858 – 1 March 1925) was an English conductor, composer and arranger.
Life
Thomas Bidgood was born in Woolwich, Kent. His father was William John Bidgood, a master plumber, and his mother was Jane Bidgood, née Wil ...
(1858–1925), an English conductor, composer and arranger (buried in an unmarked grave)
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Alfred Edward Durrant
Alfred Edward Durrant VC ISM (4 November 1864 – 29 March 1933) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth for ...
VC ISM (1864–1933), an English recipient of the
Victoria Cross
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*
Edward Henry "Ted" Willis, Baron Willis (1914–1992), a
British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
playwright
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Etymology
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,
novelist
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and
screenwriter
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who was also politically active in support of the
Labour Party
* Bernie Grant MP, Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (1944–2000) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000.
Bernie Grant Archive
Sources
* Fred Fisk ''The History of the Ancient Parish of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, from early Druidical times, B.C. to A.D. 1923'' (Tottenham, 1923), pp. 145–6, 340
* Hugh Meller & Brian Parsons, ''London Cemeteries: an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer'', 4th edition (The History Press, 2008)
References
External links
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Cemeteries in London