Nunhead Cemetery In-depth
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Charles Abbott - the 101 year old Ipswich
Grocer and Charterhouse brother
Alfred Vance - English Music hall performer
Jenny Hill - another Music hall performer
There is also an obelisk, the 'Scottish Political Martyrs Memorial',
dedicated to the leaders of the Friends of the People Society, including Thomas Muir, Maurice Margarot, and Thomas Fyshe Palmer,
who were transported to Australia in 1794. The monument was erected by radical M.P. Joseph Hume in 1837.
The cemetery is the setting for the Victorian poet Charlotte Mew's
exploration of death, insanity and social alienation In Nunhead Cemetery and is the setting for Maurice Riordan's final poem,
The January Birds in his 2007 collection, The Holy Land.
The Woman Between the Worlds, a 1994 science-fiction novel by F.
Gwynplaine MacIntyre set in Victorian England, depicts a funeral at Nunhead Cemetery in 1898 for the burial (in a closed coffin)
of a female extra-terrestrial. The novel intentionally avoids citing a precise location in Nunhead for this grave, in case
some reader mistakenly believes that genuine alien remains can be retrieved from the site.
There is a conducted tour of the cemetery run by the Friends of
Nunhead Cemetery, open to all, on the last Sunday of each month, starting from the Linden Grove gates at 2:15 p.m.
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