Editing Highgate (section)

==Notable inhabitants==
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[[Highgate Cemetery]] is the burial place of Communist philosopher [[Karl Marx]], [[Michael Faraday]], [[Douglas Adams]], [[George Eliot]], [[Jacob Bronowski]], Sir [[Ralph Richardson]], [[Dawn Foster]], [[Christina Rossetti]], Sir [[Sidney Nolan]], [[Alexander Litvinenko]], [[Malcolm McLaren]], [[Radclyffe Hall]], [[Joseph Wolf]] and singer-songwriter [[George Michael]].

* Adjacent to [[Highgate Cemetery]] is [[Holly Lodge Estate]], one of only two housing-estates built in the UK for single women; formerly, it was the home and grounds of Baroness [[Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts]].
* Between 1930 and 1939, the wife and son of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s half-brother, Alois, lived in Highgate, before moving to the United States. [[Bridget Dowling|Bridget]] and [[William Patrick Stuart-Houston]] lived at 26 Priory Gardens.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/graham_stewart/article3054294.ece|title=Login|access-date=3 January 2009|archive-date=27 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727031439/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/graham_stewart/article3054294.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Leslie Compton]], formerly an [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] footballer and a [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] cricketer, owned a pub in Highgate after he retired from sports.
* Singer [[George Michael]] owned an £8 million house in Highgate.<ref>{{cite web|author=Stephen Jones |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/george-micheal-dead-53-live-9514177?service=responsive |title=George Michael dead at 53: Recap as world-famous superstar singer found dead by boyfriend on Christmas Day - Mirror Online |publisher=Mirror.co.uk |date=28 December 2016 |access-date=14 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Southend United F.C.|Southend United]] striker [[Nile Ranger]] was born in Highgate.
* Rock star [[Rod Stewart]] was born and raised in Highgate.
* Rock star [[Ray Davies]] of the [[Kinks]] was born and raised in nearby Muswell Hill and lives in Highgate.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
* Filmmaker [[Christopher Nolan]] was raised in Highgate.
* Actor [[Jude Law]] lived in Highgate.
* Actor [[Robert Powell]] lives in Highgate.
* Comedian [[Noel Fielding]] lives in Highgate.
* Singer [[Liam Gallagher]] lives in Highgate.
* Comedians [[Graham Chapman]] & [[Terry Jones]] of [[Monty Python]] lived in Highgate.

Many notable alumni have passed through [[Highgate School]], either Masters or indeed Old Cholmeleians, the name given to old boys of the school. These include [[T.S. Eliot]], who taught the poet laureate [[John Betjeman]] there, [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] the poet, the composers [[John Taverner]] and [[John Rutter]], [[John Venn]] the inventor of [[Venn diagram]]s, actor [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]], [[Anthony Crosland]] MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister [[Charles Clarke]].

A blue plaque on a house at the top of North Hill notes that [[Charles Dickens]] stayed there in 1832, when he was 20 years old.

Peter Sellers lived as a boy in a cottage in [[Muswell Hill]] Road, where his mother had moved in order to send him to the Catholic St Aloysius Boys' School in Hornsey Lane.

In Victorian times St Mary Magdalene House of Charity in Highgate was a refuge for former prostitutes—"fallen women"—where [[Christina Rossetti]] was a volunteer from 1859 to 1870. It may have inspired her best-known poem, [[Goblin Market]].

[[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]' bassist [[Steven Severin]] was born and brought up there.

===Coleridge===
In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] came to live at [[3, The Grove, Highgate]], the home of Dr [[James Gillman]], in order to rehabilitate from his [[opium]] addiction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Drg-OToJMt4C&q=james%20gillman%20highgate%20coleridge%201816%20opium&pg=PA203|title=The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge|first=James|last=Gillman|date=7 November 2016|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=9780554322261|via=Google Books}}</ref> After Dr Gillman built a special wing for the poet, Coleridge lived there for the rest of his life, becoming known as the sage of Highgate.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|url=http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm|website=Poets' Graves|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref>

While here some of his most famous poems, though written years earlier, were first published including "[[Kubla Khan]]". His literary autobiography, ''[[Biographia Literaria]]'', appeared in 1817. While living there he became friends with his neighbour [[Joseph Hardman]].<ref name="Nye 1989">{{cite journal | last=Nye | first=Eric W. | title=Coleridge and the Publishers: Twelve New Manuscripts | journal=[[Modern Philology]] | publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] | volume=87 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0026-8232 | jstor=438528 | pages=68–69 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/438528 }}</ref> His home became a place of pilgrimage for figures such as [[Thomas Carlyle|Carlyle]] and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]]. He died here on 25 July 1834 and is buried in the crypt of nearby [[St Michael's Church, Highgate|St Michael's Church]]. The writer [[J. B. Priestley]] subsequently lived in the same house; a commemorative plaque marks the property.