Golders Green Crematorium

Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and is one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.<ref name="cremeu"/><ref name="garden">Template:NHLE</ref> The land for the crematorium was purchased in 1900, costing £6,000 (the equivalent of £136,000 in 2021), and the crematorium was opened in 1902 by Sir Henry Thompson.<ref name="garden"/>

Golders Green Crematorium, as it is usually called, is in Hoop Lane, off Finchley Road, Golders Green, in northwest London, near Golders Green Underground station. It is directly opposite the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery. (Golders Green is an area with a large Jewish population.) The crematorium is secular, accepts all faiths and non-believers; clients may arrange their own type of service or remembrance event and choose whatever music they wish.<ref name="cremeu">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The crematorium gardens are listed at Grade I in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.<ref name="garden"/>

History

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The Bedford Chapel at Golders Green Crematorium

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Horder Japanese Garden Pond

The legality of cremation in Great Britain was not confirmed until 1885. The first crematorium was built in Woking and it was successful. At that time cremation was championed by the Cremation Society of Great Britain.<ref name="srgw-demon-co-uk">Template:Cite web</ref> This society was governed by a council, at that time led by Sir Henry Thompson (president and founding member). There is a bust to his memory in the West Chapel of Golders Green Crematorium. Out of this Society was formed the London Cremation Company (which has its offices on the premises), who desired to build a crematorium within easy reach of London.

The crematorium in Golders Green was designed by the architect Sir Ernest George and his partner Alfred Yeates.<ref name="ehlb">Template:NHLE</ref> The gardens were laid out by William Robinson.<ref name="garden"/> The crematorium is a red brick building in Lombardic style and was built in stages, as money became available.<ref name="garden"/><ref name="ehlb"/> The crematorium opened in 1902 and was built in four phases (1901–1910, 1910–1911, 1912–1916, 1926–1928).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> By 1939, the site was largely completed, although since then some buildings have been added. Since November 1902 more than 323,500 cremations have taken place at Golders Green Crematorium, far more than any other British crematorium. It is estimated that the crematorium now averages around 2,000 cremations a year. The funerals of many prominent people have taken place there over the last century.

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Into the Silent Land by Henry Alfred Pegram

The chimney of the crematorium is located within the tower and the building is in an Italianate style.<ref name="cremeu"/> The Template:Convert of gardens are extensively planted, and produce a beautiful and tranquil environment for visitors. There are several large tombs, two ponds and bridge, and a large crocus lawn. Another notable feature is a special children's section, which includes a swinging bench. There is also a 'communist corner' with memorials to notables of the Communist Party of Great Britain. There are two cremation chapels and a Chapel of Memory. There are also three columbaria containing the ashes of thousands of Londoners and residents of neighbouring counties.

There have been 14 holders of the Victoria Cross cremated here,<ref name=blvch>Template:Cite web</ref> and there are locations and memorials for many other military personnel of all ranks, and from many countries. Largest among them is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial, commemorating 496 British and Commonwealth military casualties of both World Wars who were cremated here. Designed by Sir Edward Maufe, it was unveiled in 1952. Built in Portland stone with names listed on three bronze panels, it stands at head of an ornamental pond at the western end of the memorial cloister.<ref name="CWGCCem">http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/casualty/2043720/GOLDERS%20%GREEN%20CREMATORIUM Template:Dead link</ref>

At Christmas, a Christmas tree is erected in the field in front of the main buildings. Although the crematorium is secular, a nativity scene is also placed near the Chapel of Memory.

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The Freud Corner at Golders Green Crematorium

Notable monuments

The crematorium gardens are listed at Grade I in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.<ref name="garden"/> The Philipson Family mausoleum, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is a Grade II* listed building on the National Heritage List for England<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> and the crematorium building,<ref name="ehlb"/> the wall, along with memorials and gates,<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> the Martin Smith Mausoleum<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> and Into The Silent Land, a sculpture by Henry Alfred Pegram<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> are all Grade II listed buildings. The largest sculpture portraying someone cremated here is the statue of Indian industrialist and friend of Gandhi, Ghanshyam Das Birla.

Visiting

A map of the Garden of Rest and some information on persons cremated here is available from the office. Staff are available to help in finding a specific location.<ref name="ehlb"/>

Notable cremations

Ashes at Golders Green Crematorium

Among those whose ashes are retained or were scattered here, are: Template:Div col

• Richard Addinsell, English composer, ashes scattered in communal section of crocus lawn.<ref>Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 508-509). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>
• Larry Adler, American harmonica player<ref>Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More than 14000 Famous Persons, Scott Wilson</ref>
• Kingsley Amis, British writer, one of the Angry young men
• Boris Anrep, Russian artist
• Pegaret Anthony, British artist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British soldier, VC recipient<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, geologist
• Lionel Bart, composer of Oliver! and many other shows and songs
• Ronnie Biggs, criminal and participant of The Great Train Robbery of 1963<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Eric Blom, British musicologist
• Simon Blumenfeld, writer and columnist
• Enid Blyton, children's author (Famous Five, Noddy)
• Marc Bolan, musician, poet and writer (founder of T. Rex)
• Bernard Bresslaw, Carry On film series actor<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Arthur Brough, actor
• George Brown, Baron George-Brown, Labour party politician, ultimately Foreign Secretary.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• Jack Bruce, Scottish composer, musician and member of Cream<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Mrs Victor Bruce, racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator
• Bella Burge, music hall performer and boxing promoter
• Sir Neville Cardus, notable cricket writer, also distinguished music critic
• George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe, English colonial administrator and writer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Eric Coates, English composer of light music<ref>"Funeral: Mr. Eric Coates", The Times, 27 December 1957, p. 8</ref>
• Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer<ref>England Football Online</ref>
• Steve Conway, singer<ref name="memory">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Cicely Courtneidge, actress and comedian<ref>Pepys-Whiteley, D. "Courtneidge, Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely (1893–1980)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011, accessed 8 August 2011 Template:Subscription required</ref>
• Walter Crane, English artist and book illustrator
• Tony Crombie, English jazz musician
• Victor Dandré, Russian impresario and husband of Anna Pavlova
• Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
• James Dewar, British chemist and physicist (inventor of the Dewar flask or vacuum flask)
• Edith Durham, writer, traveller and anthropologist
• Ray Ellington, English musician
• Havelock Ellis, intellectual
• Dame Millicent Fawcett, leader of the suffragist movement
• Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (there is a rosebed in her memory)
• Molly Fink, Australian socialite and wife of Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman of Pudukkottai.<ref name="younger">Template:Cite book</ref>
• Bud Flanagan, singer and Crazy Gang star
• George Frampton, British sculptor
• Lynne Frederick, actress
• Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, also a psychoanalyst, especially of children<ref>Eric T. Pengelley, Daphne M. Pengelley. A Traveler's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine. Davis, Calif.: Trevor Hill Press, 1986, p. 86.</ref>
• Sigmund<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Martha Freud,<ref>Burke, Janine The Sphinx at the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis, New York: Walker and Co. 2006, p. 340.</ref> father of modern psychoanalysis and his wife
• Ernest George, English architect (and who designed this crematorium with Alfred Yeates)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Simon Gipps-Kent, English actor, Crocus Lawn, Section 3H
• Elinor Glyn, English romantic novelist and scriptwriter.
• Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian born architect and designer of furniture
• Charles Gray, English actor
• Hughie Green, Canadian born quiz show host<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Arthur Greenwood, English Labour politician. (Ashes and memorial, Bay 17 of the East Boundary Wall.)<ref name="ReferenceA">Golders Green Crematorium guide notes</ref>
• Joyce Grenfell, actress and comedian<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• John Gross, writer
• Irene Handl, actress and comedian
• Tommy Handley, British comedian<ref>"London Tribute to Mr Handley: Crowds at Funeral", The Times, 14 January 1949, p. 4</ref>
• Robert Harbin, South African born magician and writer
• Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor
• Jack Hawkins, actor
• Tubby Hayes, English jazz musician<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Ian Hendry, actor
• Patrick Hennessy, Irish Realist Artist<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Dezo Hoffmann, Slovak photographer of actors and rock stars including the Beatles
• Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, British Conservative politician
• Lady Margaret Huggins and her husband Sir William Huggins, astronomers<ref>Brück, M. T. & Elliott, I., "The Family Background of Lady Huggins", Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3/Mar, 1992 p. 210</ref>
• Ralph Ince, American film actor, director and screenwriter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Gordon Jackson, actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Alex James, footballer
• Sid James, South African-born actor, Bless This House and Carry On film series star<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, architect<ref>Hal Moggridge: Jellicoe. In: H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (ed.): Oxford dictionary of national biography. From the earliest times to the year 2000. Vol. 29. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2004, Template:ISBN, pp. 921–924.</ref>
• Jimmy Jewel, comedian
• Yootha Joyce, actress<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Geoffrey Keen, actor
• Albert William Ketèlbey, English composer, conductor and pianist<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• Johnny Kidd, singer
• David Kossoff, actor, writer, and campaigner
• Paul Kossoff, musician (guitarist with Free, among others)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, former Lord Chief Justice of England, drowned in fishing accident.<ref name=compeerage13>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Doris Lessing, writer, 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• Percy Wyndham Lewis, artist and writer
• William Howard Livens, military engineer and inventor<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright and screenwriter
• Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-born British sociologist, founder of the sociology of knowledge
• Moore Marriott, British comic actor
• Mary Millar, British actress and singer
• Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman, Raja of Pudukkottai 1886–1928<ref name="younger" />
• Keith Moon, musician (drummer for The Who)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Janet Munro, actress, wife of actor Ian Hendry (above)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore, British soldier, politician and VC winner
• Ivor Novello, actor, writer and lyricist<ref name="Wilson, Scott 2016">Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2. McFarland & Company (2016) Template:ISBN</ref>
• Seán O'Casey, Irish playwright
• Joe Orton, playwright<ref>John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, 1980 Penguin Books edition, Chapter 6, 'The Freaks' Roll-Call', p. 337</ref>
• Val Parnell, impresario
• Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the British Communist Party<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Marie Rambert, ballerina and founder of Rambert Dance Company
• Edith Rosenbaum, First Class survivor of the sinking of RMS TitanicTemplate:Cn
• William Rust, Communist activist, editor of The Daily Worker<ref>"Rust, William Charles", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref>
• Ronnie Scott, British jazz musician
• Phil Seamen, British jazz musician
• Peter Sellers, actor and comedian<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Geoffrey Shaw composer
• Ella Shields, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator
• Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon, abolitionist<ref name=odnbA>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist
• Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula)
• John Stride, actor
• Mollie Sugden, actress, best known for Are You Being Served?Template:Cn
• A.J.P. Taylor, historian<ref name=odnb53>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, surgeon and founder of the Cremation Society of England<ref name="srgw-demon-co-uk" />
• Karl Tunberg, American screenwriter, author and film producer; past-President WGA, West (US)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Tommy Vance, British broadcaster<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Conrad Veidt, German actor, following cremation in the US<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Vesta Victoria, music hall performer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Dame Barbara Windsor, Carry On film series, EastEnders actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Bernie Winters, comedian
• Victoria Wood, British comedian
• Maurice Woodruff, English clairvoyant, following cremation in Singapore

Ashes taken elsewhere

Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are: Template:Div col

• Dame Peggy Ashcroft, actress, ashes scattered in the Great Garden at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire<ref>Morris, Sylvia. "Shakespeare's mulberries: trees of history and legend", TheShakespeareBlog.com, 12 August 2013; Prendergast, Thomas A. Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain, University of Pennsylvania Press (2015), p. 186 Template:ISBN; and Hodgdon, Barbara. The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations, University of Pennsylvania Press (1998), pp. 210–211, Template:ISBN</ref>
• Arnold Bennett, novelist, ashes buried at Burslem Cemetery, Staffordshire
• Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Sir Alfred Billson (1839–1907), Liberal MP, ashes buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, daughter of Charles Bradlaugh, atheist and freethinking author and peace campaigner, ashes buried in Brookwood Cemetery.<ref name=odnbB>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• Horatio Bottomley, British Liberal, later Independent, M.P., journalist, swindler, ashes scattered on Sussex Downs<ref>Template:Cite bookCitation for cremation place.</ref><ref>Template:Cite bookCitation for disposal of ashes.</ref>
• Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, Irish born British Conservative politician<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> ashes scattered on Romney Marshes.
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, British jurist and Liberal politician, ashes buried at Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• Neville Chamberlain, British Conservative politician and Prime Minister, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Alan J. Charig, British Palaeontologist, ashes scattered with his wife’s at Woldingham Viewpoint near Oxted, Surrey.
• Peter Cook, British actor and comedian, ashes buried in an unmarked plot behind St. John's Church in Hampstead.
• Bebe Daniels, American actress, singer and writer, with her husband, Ben Lyon, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Sir Charles Dilke, Radical Liberal MP, his ashes were buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Ian Dury, English singer-lyricist, best known for No. 1 hit "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", his ashes have reputedly been scattered in the Thames, there is a memorial bench in Richmond Park
• T. S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, ashes in St Michael's Church in East Coker, Somerset<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Lily Elsie, actress (location of ashes unknown)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Barry Evans, English actor<ref name=restingplaces>Template:Cite book</ref> (location of ashes unknown)
• John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet, ashes buried at Kilverstone, Norfolk.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal, ashes buried at Ripple, Kent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Edward German, composer, ashes buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire.<ref name=Rees>Template:Cite book</ref>
• David Gest, Music producer, Comedian and Television personality. Funeral service held at Golders Green Crematorium on 29 April 2016,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His ashes were scattered in York.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and author, who with Arthur Sullivan wrote the Savoy operas,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Stanmore.<ref>Stedman, Jane W. "Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836–1911)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, online edition, May 2008, accessed 10 January 2010 Template:ODNBsub</ref>
• Sir Charles Henry, expatriate Australian businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament, ashes buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery.<ref name=schron>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Richard Hillary, Anglo-Australian RAF fighter ace, ashes scattered over English Channel. He is listed on Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Reginald Hine, British historian, ashes scattered at Minsden Chapel
• Eric Hobsbawm, British historian, ashes interred at Highgate Cemetery
• Professor Louis Hoffmann (Angelo John Lewis), author of "Modern Magic" (1876) and other books on magic, games, amusements and puzzles. Funeral service and cremation took place at Golders Green on 29 December 1919, location of ashes unknown.
• Gary Holton, actor best known as the star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his ashes rest in Maesgwastad Cemetery, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire
• Kenneth Horne, comedian and businessman, star of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, ashes buried at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire.<ref name=SPMG>Template:Cite web</ref>
• A.E. Housman, classical scholar and poet, author of A Shropshire Lad, ashes interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow, Shropshire, England<ref>Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 22231). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition</ref>
• John Inman, actor, star of Are You Being Served?,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> location of ashes unknown
• Henry Irving, stage actor in the Victorian era, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, Liberal politician and lawyer, ashes buried at the nearby Jewish cemetery<ref name=compeerage1>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Henry James, American-born British novelist, ashes buried at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.<ref>Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 23458–23459). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>
• Jerome K. Jerome, writer, ashes buried at St Mary's Churchyard, Ewelme, Oxfordshire
• Kenrick Hymans ("Snakehips") Johnson, Guyanese-born British jazz band leader, cremated here,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> ashes removed to chapel of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
• Adrian Jones, sculptor of various war and other military memorials, ashes interred outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst,<ref name="Welsh Biography Online"/> ashes were buried in the grave of the oldest of his four children in the churchyard of St Cadoc's Church, Cheriton on the Gower Peninsula<ref name="Welsh Biography Online">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Hetty King, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator.
• Rudyard Kipling, British author and poet, ashes removed to Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey<ref>"History – Rudyard Kipling". Westminster abbey.org.</ref>
• Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film producer,<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> ashes buried at Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire.<ref name=SPMG/>
• Leonid Krasin, Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat, ashes buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Kit Lambert, manager and record producer for The Who, ashes buried at Brompton Cemetery<ref>Friends of Brompton Cemetery Magazine issue No. 62 Autumn 2018</ref>
• Verity Lambert, television producer.
• Vivien Leigh, English actress, ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, Sussex<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Alice Liddell, ashes removed to Lyndhurst, Hampshire (see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).
• Lieutenant General Samuel Lomax, died of wounds World War I, ashes buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery<ref>Commonwealth War Graves database page for Lieutenant General Samuel Holt Lomax, Retrieved on the 14 March 2007</ref>
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, ashes buried at the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, the first member of the British Royal Family to be cremated, ashes buried at the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Edwin Lutyens, architect whose designs include The Cenotaph. Ashes buried at St Paul's Cathedral, London
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, ashes scattered at sea at Port Vendres, France.<ref>"Video 3/3 :Charles Rennie Mackintosh – A Modern Man" (1996) </ref><ref>BBC Scotland Documentary, 2018 Mackintosh: Glasgow’s Neglected Genius</ref>
• James Leslie Mitchell, Scottish author, who also wrote as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ashes interred in the cemetery at Arbuthnott in Kincardineshire.<ref>Baxter, Alison (2024), Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pp. 161 & 162, Template:Isbn</ref>
• Matt Monro, singer, ashes removed by the family<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
• George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist, ashes buried in an urn on Castle Island in Lough Carra, County Mayo, in sight of the ruins of his ancestral family home at Moore Hall.<ref name=Frazier>Template:Cite book</ref>
• John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Liberal politician, ashes buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.<ref name=compeerage2>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Peter O'Toole, actor and author, cremated on 21 December 2013 in a wicker coffin,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> ashes scattered in Connemara, Ireland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, anti-war activist, ashes taken to Frieth<ref name=odnb1>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• H. G. Pelissier, actor, composer and satirist, ashes rest in Marylebone Cemetery
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, ashes, with those of his wife, scattered at sea; commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial here.<ref name="CWGCDOHR">CWGC Casualty Record.</ref>
• King Prajadhipok of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in the Grand Palace, Bangkok.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Wendy Richard, English actress, ashes interred at East Finchley Cemetery
• Arnold Ridley, author and actor, ashes rest in Bath Abbey Cemetery<ref>Excusing Private Godfrey, BBC Radio 4, 2012-07-06.</ref>
• Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, politician and hereditary peer, President of the Cremation Society. Ashes buried at St Michael's Church, Chenies, Buckinghamshire.
• Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey.<ref name=compeerage2b>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Shapurji Saklatvala, Indian-born Labour and Communist Member of the British Parliament. Cremated here, ashes buried at the Parsi burial ground in Brookwood Cemetery.<ref name=odnb5>Template:Cite bookThe ODNB does not mention the cremation.</ref>
• Dorothy L. Sayers, novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Her ashes are buried at the base of the tower of St Anne's Church, Soho.<ref>"St. Anne's House Archive", Wheaton College. Retrieved 5 December 2023</ref>
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe, zoologist, founder of the British Ornithologists' Club and Assistant Keeper of the British Museum<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) Indian princess and suffragette, daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab. Cremated here, ashes scattered in the Punjab.<ref name=History>Template:Cite web</ref>
• F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, lawyer-statesman, ashes buried at Charlton, Northamptonshire.<ref name=odnb51>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, ashes buried in Westminster Abbey.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Vivian Stanshall, founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, artist, poet and broadcaster. His ashes are in the possession of his wife and daughter. A memorial plaque is in the crematorium's Poets' Corner, unveiled on 13 December 2015.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Air Vice Marshal Sir Frederick Sykes, early Royal Air Force commander and Conservative politician, cremated here,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> ashes scattered on Salisbury Plain.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>
• Ellen Terry, actress, ashes kept at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London<ref name="Wilson, Scott 2016"/>
• James Henry Thomas (1874–1949), Labour cabinet minister and railwaymen's trade union leader, ashes buried at Swindon, Wiltshire.<ref name=odnb54>Template:Cite book</ref>
• H. G. Wells, English author, ashes scattered at sea<ref>West, Anthony. H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life, p. 153. London: Hutchinson & Co, 1984. Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, ashes buried in North Aisle, Westminster Abbey<ref>"Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Abbey Commemoration", The Times, 20 September 1958, p. 8</ref><ref>"Ralph Vaughan Williams", Westminster Abbey, retrieved 19 October 2015</ref>
• Amy Winehouse, singer-songwriter, ashes buried at Edgwarebury Cemetery, alongside her grandmother.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Szmul Zygielbojm, Polish-Jewish political activist who committed suicide in London, in 1943, as a protest against international indifference towards the Holocaust. His ashes were transferred to New York in 1961 by fellow members of the Bund Jewish Organization.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Further reading

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External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC): Golders Green Crematorium
• Golders Green Crematorium at Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
• Template:Find a Grave cemetery