Wolvercote Cemetery

The grave of J. R. R. and Edith Tolkien

Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery close to the north Oxford suburb of Wolvercote, England, off the Banbury Road. Unusually, this single cemetery is divided into areas to accommodate graves of the Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as all categories of Christians. Many Russians, Poles and other East Europeans who did not belong to Oxford parishes are buried here. The cemetery is equipped with toilet facilities, car parking spaces and a beautiful chapel. Near the chapel is a large area set aside for the burial of cremated remains. There is also an area at the back of the cemetery set aside for green burials and an area set aside for the burial of stillborns and infants. It is a working cemetery and there are more than 15,000 people buried there. It was opened in 1889.

Selected burials

The following people are buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, many of them academics at Oxford University:

• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), philosopher
• E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist
• Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) of Westmeath in Ireland, and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. Lawrence
• T. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and Oxford Diocesan Surveyor
• H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher and professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University
• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of Middle Eastern history
• Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
• Adam Koc (1891–1969), Polish politician, soldier and journalist
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), historian
• James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University
• Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian
• James Murray (1837–1915), lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and Oxford professor
• Professor David Patterson, CBE (1922–2005), Oxford fellow and Hebrew scholar
• John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong
• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author and academic, together with his wife Edith
• John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003), eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Dino Vittorio Marcellinus Toso (1969–2008), engineer

See also

• Holywell Cemetery
• Osney Cemetery
• St Sepulchre's Cemetery

External links

• Find A Grave — Wolvercote Cemetery including famous graves