Cemetery Guides & History Books

Friends' publications, postcards, merchandise and a selection of other books of interest, are available to purchase online and at the Friends' bookstall on Open Days.

The Concise Guide is also usually available for cash from the General Cemetery Company, at the Main Gate, during office hours.

All other publications only available via our website.

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The Telamon

The regular magazine for The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery is delivered by post, free to Members of the Friends.  Digitised issues can be downloaded via the Members' area of the website (password-protected).

Sample issues can be downloaded here

 

 

Forster Walker

£17.50

FoKGC member Nigel Savill has had a long fascination with the Forster Walker monument. His article on the monument was published in Telamon 95. He has pursued this interest and has recently published a book which delves further into its intriguing and tragic story.  A limited print run of fifty copies will be produced, forty-five of which he has donated to FoKGC for sale to raise funds.

Each of the approximately 80-page hardback books is signed and numbered, and is available exclusively through the FoKGC website.

It is hoped than in addition to generating income the book will raise awareness of the monument which, although Grade 2* listed, is in very poor condition and requires attention if its future is to be secured.

Kensal Green Cemetery Concise Guide

8pp, A5, 29 colour photographs

£5.00

A brief history of the cemetery, with biographical notes and a plan of the cemetery marking the resting places and monuments of 99 notable personalities:

Personalities included:

Aikman, Ainsworth, Allingham, Alma-Tadema (née Epps), Ashbury, Babbage, Balfe, Barry, Beatty, Birkbeck, Blondin (né Gravelet), Bonington, Bridgetower, Brunel, Byron (née Milbanke), Cambridge, Carden, Casement, Cassel, Churchill, Cockburn, Collins, Cooke, Cruikshank, Davidson, Dawajee, Dawes/Feuchères, Dredge, Ducrow, Fairbrother, Forster, Franklin (née Griffin), Fried, Frith, Forster, Gibson, Griffith, Grossmith, Hayes, Hobhouse, Hogarth, Holland, Hood, Hunt, Huth, Inverness, Kendall, Lancaster, Lander, Leech, Leigh, Locke, Long, Loudon, Lucas, Macready, Mayhew, McClure, Mornington, Molyneux, Morison, Mulready, O’Connor, Paul, Pears, Rattigan, Richardson, Ricketts Roberts, Russell, Siemens, Simonau, Smith, Princess Sophia, Soyer, Staunton, Stephen, Strangford, Stuart, Sussex, Tagore, Tenniel, Thackeray, Trollope, Wakley, Wallace, Wilde (Speranza) and Wingfield.

Paths of Glory: A Select Alphabetical and Biographical List of Persons of Note Commemorated at the Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green

108pp, A4, spiral-bound, glassine cover, illustrated

£14.00

This invaluable guide includes a short history of the cemetery, together with brief biographical notes on over 650 notable personalities, as well as a clear line drawing of each monument, together with a grid reference and map to facilitate location.

St Helena at Kensal Green Cemetery

Free to download

Produced by The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery and British Napoleonic Bicentenary Trust to mark the bicentenary of the death of the former Emperor Napoléon, this booklet is a guided walk through Kensal Green Cemetery taking in a number of monuments to individuals linked with the exile of Napoléon on St Helena from 1815 until his death in 1821, including: Colonel Gideon Gorrequer (author of a revealing diary, not published until 1969!, about Sir Hudson Lowe and his deteriorating relationship with Napoléon); and Lucy Balcombe (author of Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon in 1844 which describes the first three years of the former Emperor’s captivity on the island).

Meticulously researched by Henry Vivian-Neal, former Chief Guide for The Friends, this download is made available free, gratis and for nothing in connection with the forthcoming walk on 23 September 2023 looking at the numerous participants on both sides of the Napoleonic Wars that are buried in the Cemetery.

Their Exits: Encore

Hardback, Illustrated

£20.99

A select alphabetical and biographical list of theatrical, musical and equestrian performers and literary figures of note; buried, cremated or commemorated at the Cemetery of All Souls at Kensal Green.

This hardback edition contains over 90 colour illustrations and 65 black and white/sepia illustrations, photographs, cartes de visites, caricatures, playbills, line drawings of theatres and the like. Foreword by Dame Monica Mason, D.B.E. Henry Vivian-Neal and Alexander Bisset.

Walk like an Egyptian

Paperback, 48pp. Full colour

£9.00

A Walking Tour and Guide to the Egyptianizing Monuments of London's First and Finest Historic Garden Cemetery.

The Architecture of Kensal Green Cemetery

Full colour. 244pp.

£20.00

A detailed look at the architectural elements of Kensal Green’s tombs, monuments and notable features.

The Monument To William Mulready R.A.

42pp, soft cover, illustrated

£8.25

A key to the fifteen incised images surrounding the monument of the Victorian genre painter William Mulready RA (1786-1863), with a detailed description of the monument, full-colour reproductions of all the corresponding paintings and drawings, and biographical note reproduced with the generous permission of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

The works comprise: The Younger Brother, The Last In, Hay-making: Burchell and Sophia, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Careless Messenger Detected or The Careless Nurse, Dog of Two Minds, The Butt – Shooting a Cherry, Boy Firing a Cannon, The Travelling Druggist, The Sonnet (‘from a popular novel’), Choosing the Wedding Gown, Giving a Bite, Academy study of a seated female nude, The Seven Ages of Man, and Academy study of a seated male nude.

A Byron tour at Kensal Green Cemetery

20pp, A4, spiral-bound, glassine cover, illustrated

£5.25

Twenty notable personalities now resting at Kensal Green who were associated with the poet Lord Byron, including brief biographical notes, illustrations and grid plan: Henry Angelo, Charles Babbage FRS, Lady Charlotte Bacon (née Harley), Michael William Balfe, Michael Bruce, Anne Isabella Noel, Lady Byron, Andrew Ducrow, Giovanni Battista Falcieri, John Fitzgibbon 2nd Earl of Clare, John Cam Hobhouse, Jane Hogg, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Anna Brownell Jameson, The Hon. Augusta Leigh, Daniel MacKinnon, William Charles Macready, Elizabeth Masson, John Murray, George Sanders, Howe Peter Browne 2nd Marquis of Sligo.

A Railway Pantheon

Softcover, 28pp, A4, stapled, illustrated

£5.00

An alphabetical biographical gazetteer, illustrated with line drawings of their monuments, of railway engineers and others connected with railways buried at Kensal Green Cemetery A comprehensive guide to notable personalities associated with railways — engineers, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, contractors and critics — with a brief biographical note, line drawing of every monument, and a grid plan of the cemetery to facilitate location.

The Pantheon features:

Sir William Patrick Andrew, James Lloyd Ashbury, John Ashbury, Peter William Barlow, William Beattie, James Beatty, Richard Vicars Boyle, John Braithwaite, William Duff Bruce, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, George Rowden Burnell, Sir Samuel Canning, Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel GCMG GCVO, John Chapman, Sir John Coode KCMG PICE, Thomas Russell Crampton, Charles Louis Aimé de Bergue, Charles Edmund de Bertodano, Henry J.L. Dean, James Dredge, John Edward Errington, Sir George Lancelot Eyles, William Powell Frith, Charles Geach, Francis Giles, Joseph Glynn, Thomas Longridge Gooch, Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon, John Grant, Sidney Hall, Philip Hardwick, Philip Charles Hardwick, George Harrison, George Willoughby Hemans, John Mortimer Heppel, John Lionel Hood, Lewis Henry Isaacs, Ralph Ward Jackson, Robert Jeffrey, Henry Batson Joyner, Sir John Kelk Bt, Robert William Kennard, Henry Kirtley, Christopher Bagot Lane, Michael Lane, Joseph Locke, William Martley, John Robinson McClean, David McIntosh, Vice Admiral Constantine Richard Moorsom, William Scarth Moorsom, George Bolland Newton, John Meeson Parsons, Walter Peart, John Shae Perring, George Henry Phipps, Benjamin Piercy, William Alexander Provis, James Meadows Rendel, Sir John Rennie (the younger), Charles Russell, Thomas Manzon Rymer-Jones, Joseph D’Aguilar Samuda, Charles Alexander Saunders, Henry Sayer, Benjamin Shaw, Sir Carl William Siemens FRS, William Unwin Sims, Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Thomas Samuel Speck, George Percival Spooner, Richard St-George-Moore, Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson, Francis Croughton Stileman, John Tenniel, John Wellesley Thomas, Edward Wilson, William Winans, Samuel Hansard Yockney and William Yolland.