Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Willesden Jewish Cemetery

Willesden Jewish Cemetery in Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, London, NW10, UK opened in 1873. More properly, it is the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery. Some of the notable persons interred here include:

*Barney Barnato (1852-1897), financier
*Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
*Dudley Joel (1904-1941), businessman, politician, WW II naval officer
*Jim Joel (1895-1992), businessman, racehorse owner
*Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), Governor of the Bank of England
*Anthony Nathan de Rothschild (1810-1876)
*Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)
*Charlotte von Rothschild (1819-1884)
*Hannah Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890)
*James A. de Rothschild (1878-1957)
*Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917)
*Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937)
*Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879)
*Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942)
*Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874)
*Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915), banker, politician
*Marcus Samuel (1853-1927), 1st Viscount Bearsted, banker and a founder of Shell Oil Co.
*Conchita Supervía (1895-1936), Spanish mezzo-soprano.
*Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), painter
*Sir Julius Vogel (1835-1899), Prime Minister of New Zealand
*Giulia Warwick (1857 - 1904), opera singer

Cecil Louis Fox (1886-1972) is also interred in Willesden Cemetery at the main entrance, alongside his wife Evelina Rose Goodman (Tuck) (1885-1965). Fox was one of the leading property owners in England in the 1950s-70s. Evelina Tuck's uncle was Sir Adolph Tuck, of the Raphael Tuck Greeting Card Co., and her cousin, Muriel Tuck (1892-1988), married Leonard Montefiore (1889-1961) whose Grandfather was Dr. Nathanial Mayer Montefiore de Rothschild (1819-1883).

ee also

* List of famous cemeteries

External links

* [http://www.theus.org.uk/the_united_synagogue/burial/our_cemeteries/c-80/willesden_cemetery Official website]
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