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Hera are some photogaphs of some of the famous people interred in Highgate Cemetery

Here in Highgate are interred many people of all walks of life.These are some of the names on the graves of some of the more famous people that are buried here.
Also buried in Highgate cemetery are the remains of the following.
Michael Faraday.Discovered electro-magnetic induction.
William Henry Monk composer of the hymn Abide with me
Herbert Spencer Philosopher
George Jacob Holyoake.Chartist.
Charles Dickens Family
George Henry Lewes.Novelist.
Catherine Booth-Clibbon.Founder of the Salvation Army in France.
William Friese-Green. Inventor of Cinematograpy.First man to make a moving film on celloloid.
Leslie "HUTCH" Hutchinson. Cabaret pianist and singer.
Michael Redgrave. Actor.
Phillip Harben .TVs first chef.
Patrick Wymark.Actor and film star.
KARL MARX 1818-1883
Came to London 1849 as a political exile.Co-author of the Communist Manifesto and author of Das Capital.Also his daughter Eleanor is buried here.The Marx family were originally buried about a hundred yards to the south, but were moved to their present position in 1954,and the monument errected in 1956
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1830-1894
Poet,writing in both English and Italian.Goblin Market and In the Bleak Mid-winter are well known
GEOGE ELLIOT 1819-1880
Pseudonm of Mary Anne Evans.Author of Adam Bede (1859) Middlemarch (1871-72)and other novels.Lived with G.H.Lewis, 1854-78 and married J.W.Cross shortly before her death.
LONDON FIRE BRIGADE MEMORIAL
RADCLYFFE HALL 1880-1943
Marguerite Novelist and Poet.Wrote Well of Loneliness,dealing with Lesbianism
SIR RALPH RICHARDSON 1902-1983 ACTOR
MAX WALL COMEDIAN
Max Wall was a legendary comedian and was noted for his silly walks and was a comedian in variety and pantomime. He later became a serious actor with roles in Beckett's plays his most noted.