Cemeteries (selections)

Paris: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise  20th arrondissement

Abelard & Heloïse
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Balzac, Honoré de
Bernhardt, Sarah
Caillebotte, Gustave
Delacroix, Eugène
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
Lalique, René
Marceau, Marcel
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Modigliani, Amedeo (& reinterred Jeanne Hébuterne)

Molière
Morrison, Jim
Proust, Marcel
Seurat, Georges-Pierre
Stein, Gertrude
Toklas, Alice B.
Wilde, Oscar (initially buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux. remains were transferred in 1909)

Rome: Cimitero degli Inglesi, Cimitero acattolico (“Non-Catholic Cemetery”)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe drowned off the Italian Riviera, ashes interred in the Protestant Cemetery (Cimitero protestante), officially the Cimitero acattolico (“Non-Catholic Cemetery”) in Rome; his heart, which his friend Edward John Trelawny had snatched from the flames, was kept by his widow Mary Shelley until her death & buried with her in the cemetery of St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth (where her parents, William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft are interred, their remains having been moved there from St Pancras Old Church)
Keats, John  (1795-1821)

Florence: Cimitero Accatolico Cimitero Degli Inglesi
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861) tomb designed by Lord Leighton; Holman Hunt sculpted tomb in Fiesole for wife Fanny (1833-66) who had died in Florence following childbirth.
Browning left Florence about a month after his wife’s death, never to return or to remarry — although he lived another 28 years. He died in Venice at his son’s home. “Pen” Browning, who wanted his father to be buried in the English Cemetery, but in 1877 the cemetery had closed for new interments. Browning was buried instead in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey.
Parker, Theodore (d.1860); Pyle, Howard (d.1911)

London: Highgate Cemetery, Swain’s Lane
Residents include most of the Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti clan (sans Dante Gabriel, but including Lizzie Siddal); novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans); Leslie Stephen, literally the father of the Bloomsbury Group (Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell); Karl Marx; not to mention, from a previous era, John Singleton Copley
Mary Nichols, inscription on tomb reads: “In Ever Loving Memory of Mary, the darling wife of Arthur Nichols and fondly loved mother of their only son Harold who fell asleep 7th May 1909… Mary died at the age of 58, her husband evidently was a victim on the Titanic [photo, right]

London: St Pancras Old Church
The architect Sir John Soane designed a tomb for his wife & himself in the churchyard. This mausoleum provided the inspiration for the design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott of the iconic red telephone boxes.
Burial place of Johann Christian Bach; William Franklin, the last colonial Governor of New Jersey & illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin. There is a memorial tomb for Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin, though the remains of the couple are now in Bournemouth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley & the future Mary Shelley, who planned their elopement over meetings at the grave of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Dickens mentions it in A Tale of Two Cities, making it the location of body snatching

London: Bunhill Fields
(technically a burial grounds, not a ‘consecrated’ Church of England cemetery) – its name perhaps derives from a corruption of ‘bonehill,’ in reference to the bones carted away from St. Paul’s Cathedral to make room for new interments.  Located in the London Borough of Islington, the list of those there buried reads like a virtual ‘Who’s Who’ of 17th century Nonconformity. Robert Southey called it the “Campo Santo of the Dissenters,” literally the “holy field,” referring to the Pisan Camposanto Monumentale. It’s the last resting place for an estimated 120,000 bodies marked by 2,333 monuments, mostly simple headstones with the exception of a Victorian addition to Bunyan’s tomb. The cemetery was damaged during WW2 & reconstructed in 1960 to a design by Sir Peter Shepheard (late dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts & emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the Univ of Pa).  cf. London Non-Conformist registers 1694–1921
Thomas Wilcox [c.1549 – 1608] – Admonition to the Parliament (1572)
John Owen (1616-83), Congregationalist minister, chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Univ.
George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers) – in the Quaker Gardens, next to the Bunhill Fields Meeting House
Richard Cromwell (1626–1712) & Henry Cromwell (1628–74) sons of Oliver Cromwell
John Bunyan (1628-1688), author of The Pilgrim’s Progress
Daniel Defoe (1661-1731), author of Robinson Crusoe
Susanna Wesley (1669-1742), mother of John & Charles Wesley; John Wesley’s (founder of Methodism) City Road Chapel, home, & burial place are located directly across the street
Isaac Watts (1674-1748), “Father of English hymnody”
Thomas Bayes (1702–1761)  Presbyterian minister & mathematician, remembered for his theories regarding statistics & probability.
William Blake (1757-1827), painter & poet, & wife Catherine (1762-1831) whom he married in 1782.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Eddy, Mary Baker  (1821-1910)  memorial
Brooks, Phillips  (1835-93)  Episcopal priest & author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Channing, William Ellery    (1780-1842)  Unitarian clergyman, social reformer
Gardner, Isabella Stewart   (1840-1924)
Homer, Winslow   (1836-1910)
Howe, Julia Ward   (1819-1910)  Author, poet, abolitionist
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth   (1807-82)

Woodlands Cemetery, West Philadelphia
Eakins, Thomas    1844-1916
Evans, Thomas William foremost Parisian dentist in the 19th century
Gross, Samuel David    1805-84
Peale, Rembrandt    1778-1860
Redner, Lewis H.  1831-1908 wrote the music for Phillip Brooks poem “O’ Little Town of Bethlehem”

West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd
Breyer, William A.   1828-82
Eiseley, Loren (1907–1977)
Garroway, David    1913-1982
Shibe, Benjamin Franklin    1832-1922
Jarvis, Anna (1864–1948)
Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856–1915)
Trumbauer, Horace (1868–1938)

Misc
Cone, Claribel (1864–1929) & Etta Cone (1870–1949) Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna
Beach, Sylvia  (1887-1962) Princeton
Humphreys, Charles (1714-86) Old Haverford Meeting House Cemetery