Brompton Cemetery
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Brompton Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Kensington, west London, England.
The cemetery was opened as part of an initiative in the mid-19th century to provide seven large, modern cemeteries (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') in a ring round the outside of London of which Highgate Cemetery was another example. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead.
The cemetery was designed by Benjamin Baud and has at its centre a chapel in the style of the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome. Brompton Cemetery is now a Royal park.
Famous occupants of the cemetery include:
- Joseph Bonomi the Younger - sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator
- Fanny Brawne - John Keats' muse
- Henry Cole - Founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, the 1851 Great Exhibition and inventor of the Christmas card
- Samuel Cunard - Founder of the Cunard Line
- Charles Fremantle - Founded the Swan River Colony (Western Australia)
- John William Godward - painter
- George Goldie - "Founded" Nigeria
- Geraldine Jewsbury - writer
- Percy E. Lambert - d. October 21, 1913, racecar driver
- Emmeline Pankhurst - Britain's leading suffragette
- Blanche Roosevelt - American opera singer and author
- Samuel Smiles - Biographer and inventor of "self-help"
- Ethel Smyth - Classical composer and suffragette
- John Snow - Anaesthesiologist and epidemiologist
- Sir Arthur Sullivan - composer
- Richard Tauber - operatic tenor
- Brandon Thomas - Author of Charley's Aunt
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford - jurist and statesman
- Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford - Commander-in-Chief of the Zulu War