St. Michael's Churchyard is the church and graveyard located in

Mickleham, Surrey Mickleham is a village in South East England, south east England, between the towns of Dorking and Leatherhead in Surrey. The civil parishes in England, civil parish covers and includes the hamlet of Fredley. The larger parish, ecclesiastical ...

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, belonging to the

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parish of Mickleham.

History

The church building dates back to the Anglo-Saxon and

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period from 950 to 1180, but some changes to the building were made in 1823, 1842, 1872 and 1891.

Notable burials

There are 867 recorded burials, but more are accounted for since 1891, not including those from 950 to 1891. The graveyard is the final resting place of * Philippa Walton (1674/5–1749), businesswoman and

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factory owner *

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(1801–1874), public works contractor * Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist *

Maria Kinnaird Maria Kinnaird (1810–1891), born on St. Vincent, was orphaned when La Soufrière erupted in 1812 and was later adopted by the politician Richard Sharp, known as " Conversation Sharp". Sharp was once considered possibly to be the most popula ...

(1810–1891), widow of

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. *

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(1908 - 1984), Headmaster of

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(1831–1913), had famous orchid houses at Burford Lodge in the parish. He was the grandfather of

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's wife. *

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(1870–1947),

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and a member of the

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. Bennett's grave is located steps from the front of the church doors and has a marker from the Government of Canada signifying the important figure buried there. *

John Norton-Griffiths Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, 1st Baronet, (13 July 1871 – 27 September 1930) was an engineer, British Army officer during the Second Boer War and the First World War, and a Member of Parliament. A colourful figure in his d ...

(1871–1930), "Empire Jack", the driving force behind the

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in WW1, was buried here on 18 October 1930. *

James Jeans Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Soci ...

(1877–1946), physicist, astronomer, mathematician *

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(1885–1912), pioneer aviator. Killed in a plane crash in

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. *

(1900–1958), detective story writer, who was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at

Westhumble Westhumble is a village in South East England, south east England, approximately north of Dorking, Surrey. The village is not part of a civil parishes in England, civil parish, however the majority of the settlement is in the Parish (Church ...

in the parish in 1958. *

Janet Gladys Aitken Janet Gladys Aitken (later Campbell, Montagu, and Kidd; 9 July 1908 – 18 November 1988) was a Canadian-British aristocrat and socialite. The daughter of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, she grew up at Cherkley Court in Surrey. She was the fir ...

(1908–1988), socialite *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Michaels Churchyard, Mickleham Churchyards in England Buildings and structures in Surrey