Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Kensington, West London, England.

The cemetery was opened as part of an initiative in the mid-19th century to provide seven large, modern cemeteries (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') in a ring round the outside of London of which Highgate Cemetery was another example. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead.

The cemetery was designed by Benjamin Baud and has at its centre a chapel in the style of the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome. Brompton Cemetery is now a Royal park .

Famous occupants of the cemetery include:

• Joseph Bonomi the Younger - sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator
• Fanny Brawne - John Keats' muse
• Henry Cole - Founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, the 1851 Great Exhibition and inventor of the Christmas card
• Samuel Cunard - Founder of the Cunard Line
• Charles Fremantle - Founded the Swan River Colony (Western Australia)
• John William Godward , painter
• George Goldie - "Founded" Nigeria
• Geraldine Jewsbury - writer
• Percy E. Lambert d. October 21, 1913, racecar driver
• Emmeline Pankhurst - Britain's leading suffragette
• Blanche Roosevelt American opera singer and author
• Samuel Smiles - Biographer and inventor of "self-help"
• Ethel Smyth - Classical composer and suffragette
• John Snow - Anaesthesiologist and epidemiologist
• Sir Arthur Sullivan - composer
• Richard Tauber - operatic tenor
• Brandon Thomas - Author of Charley's Aunt
• Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, jurist and statesman
• Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford - Commander-in-Chief of the Zulu War

See also: List of famous cemeteries