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Holywell Cemetery is next to St Cross Church in Oxford, England. The cemetery is behind the church in St Cross Road, south of Holywell Manor on Manor Road and north of Longwall Street, in the parish of Holywell.




History


In the mid 19th century, the graveyards of the six parishes in central Oxford became full, so Merton College made some of its land available to form the cemetery in 1847.
The cemetery was established along with Osney Cemetery and St Sepulchre's Cemetery. In 1855, new burials were forbidden at all Oxford city churches, apart from in existing vaults.
The cemetery is now a wildlife refuge with many birds (including pheasants that nest there) and butterflies, as well as small and larger mammals, including muntjac deer and foxes. Hedgehogs are also known to live there.




Notable interments and memorials



A number of well-known people are buried in the cemetery, including:

Henry Wentworth Acland, physician and educator, and Sarah Acland, after whom the Acland Home is named
James Blish, the American expatriate author
Sir Reader Bullard and his sons Sir Giles Bullard and Sir Julian Bullard, all diplomats
Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
John William Burgon, Dean of Chichester Cathedral
Theophilus Carter, said to be the model for the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
George Claridge Druce, botanist and Mayor of Oxford
Hugo Dyson, member of the Inklings
Francis Edgeworth, statistician and economist
Austin Farrer, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows
Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, classical historian formerly of Balliol, Hertford and Brasenose
Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Egyptologist and founder of the Griffith Institute
Nora Griffith, Egyptologist and founder of the Griffith Institute
Charles Buller Heberden, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
Andrew John Herbertson, geographer
William West Jones, Archbishop of Cape Town
Sir Richard Lodge, historian
Agnes Catherine Maitland, educationnist, principal at Somerville College
Max Müller, philologist and Orientalist, Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford
Walter Pater, essayist and critic
Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Lord Redcliffe-Maud, civil servant and Master of University College, Oxford, and his wife Jean Redcliffe-Maud
John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
George Rolleston, physician and zoologist
John Stainer, composer and organist
Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic and author
Paul Vinogradoff, historian
Thomas Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford
Charles Williams, novelist, poet and member of the Inklings
William Wallace, Scottish philosopher
F. H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher
A. C. Bradley, British literary scholar
Henry George Woods, President of Trinity College, Oxford
Margaret Louisa Woods, poet and novelist
A wooden grave marker that was used to mark the grave of the England Rugby captain Ronald Poulton-Palmer at Ploegsteert wood is affixed to a wall in the cemetery.
The cemetery contains three war graves that are maintained and registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission – two British Army officers of World War I and a Royal Air Force officer of World War II.




Friends


A Friends of Holywell Cemetery has been established to raise funds and manage the cemetery.




See also


Osney Cemetery
St Sepulchre's Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery




References






Sources


Lack, Alastair (March 2010). "The Valhalla of Oxford". Oxfordshire Limited Edition. The Oxford Times: 35–39.




External links


This is Oxfordshire information
Friends of Holywell Cemetery
Holywell Cemetery: An Oxford Secret by Janet Keene
St. Cross Churchyard, aka Holywell Cemetery at Find a Grave
Holywell Cemetery, Oxford: Famous people

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