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Twickenham Cemetery

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Established
  
1868

Type
  
Active

Address
  
London TW2 6LE, UK

Date formed
  
1868

Country
  
England

Find a Grave
  
Twickenham Cemetery

Phone
  
+44 20 8876 4511

Twickenham Cemetery

Location
  
Whitton, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Owned by
  
Richmond upon Thames Council

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–5:15PMMonday9AM–5:15PMTuesday9AM–5:15PMWednesday9AM–5:15PMThursday9AM–5:15PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedSuggest an edit

Owner
  
Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council

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Twickenham Cemetery is a cemetery at Hospital Bridge Road, Whitton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was established in 1868 and was expanded in the 1880s when the local parish churchyards were closed to new burials.

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Notable burials

  • William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (d.1951), who commanded the ANZAC forces during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and became Commander-in-Chief, India in 1925
  • Frederick James Camm (d. 1959), technical author and magazine editor
  • Leonard N. Fowles (d.1939), organist, choirmaster and composer
  • Francis Francis (d.1886), angler and novelist
  • Edward Stanley Gibbons (d.1913), stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue
  • Joseph Jackson Howard (d.1902), genealogist, and Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary 1887–1902
  • Laurence Oliphant (d.1888), author, traveller, diplomat and Christian mystic
  • Jonathan Peel (d.1879), Secretary of State for War
  • Ernst Roth (d.1971), music publisher
  • Herbert Edgar Weston (d.1961), stamp dealer

    • References

    Twickenham Cemetery Wikipedia
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