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It is the only Victorian cemetery established by an act of the British Parliament with a mandate that its bodies may not be exhumed and cremated or the land sold for development. Interred at Kensal Green is Marigold Frances Churchill, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Clementine who died from a fever in 1921 at age three. Some of the other notable interred here are:
Ras Andargachew Messai (1902 - 1981), Ethiopian ruler
John Lothrop Motley (1814 - 1877), American historian
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), author
Robert Owen (memorial) (1771 - 1858), industrialist and major social reformer
John Shaw Junior, architect (1803 - 1870) Brother in law of Philip Hardwick listed above
Sir William Siemens (1823 - 1883), industrialist
William Henry Smith, businessman
William Makepeace Thackeray, writer
Henry Ainley (1879 - 1945), actor
Charles Babbage, mathematician, computer scientist
George Birkbeck, doctor, academic and adult education pioneer
Charles Blondin, acrobat, tightrope-walker
Louis de la Bourdonnais, chess master
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer
Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer
Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875 - 1912), composer and conductor
Wilkie Collins, author
Thomas Hood, poet, humorist, journalist
Philip Hardwick (1792 - 1870), architect
Philip Charles Hardwick (1822 - 1892), architect
Fanny Kemble, actor, poet
Alexander McDonnell, chess master
Kitty Melrose, actress
Freddie Mercury, singer
Therese Tietjens, famous opera singer
Anthony Trollope, novelist
William Vincent Wallace (1812 - 1865), composer
John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917), artist
James Barry (1795 - 25 July 1865), surgeon
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