Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote, Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking.
The cemetery was opened in 1889 and now contains more than 15,000 burials.
The cemetery has a number of sections for individual religions or ethnicities, including Bahá'í, Muslim, Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Polish Roman Catholic and other Roman Catholic.
There is an area for the burial of cremated remains, an area for green burials and an area for the burial of stillborns and infants.
Many notable people are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, including many former academics of the University of Oxford.
Sir Ernest Bennett (1865–1947), Oxford fellow, politician, explorer and writerSir Isaiah Berlin (1909–97), philosopher, with his wife AlineE. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemistSir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. LawrenceT. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and Oxford Diocesan SurveyorWłodzimierz Brus (1921–2007), economistElizabeth Edmondson (1948-2016), authorBill Ferrar (1893-1990), mathematicianH. L. A. Hart (1907–92), legal philosopher and professor of jurisprudenceAlbert Hourani (1915–93), scholar of Middle Eastern historyElizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poetColonel Adam Koc (1891–1969), politician, soldier and journalist of the Second Polish RepublicPeter Laslett (1915–2001), historianJames Legge (1815–97), Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of OxfordEleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historianJames Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English DictionaryDimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and professor of Russian and Balkan historyProfessor David Patterson (1922–2005), HebraistFranz Baermann Steiner (1909–52), ethnologistJohn Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong KongJ. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, together with his wife Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003)Dino Toso (1969–2008), automotive engineerBrian Tovey (1926–2015), Former head of GCHQFrancis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934), fellow of Balliol CollegeLieutenant-Colonel Helena Wolińska-Brus (1919–2008), military prosecutor at show trials in Stalinist Poland in the 1950sMike Woodin (1965–2004), Green Party politicianE. M. Wright (1906–2005), mathematicianThe cemetery includes the graves of 44 Commonwealth service personnel: 21 from World War I and 23 from World War II.
