Highgate Cemetery Famous Graves
London's Highgate Cemetery is notable for many of the famous people buried there. Can you name some of these people from the brief descriptions?
Descriptions
- English Victorian novelist who wrote The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
- Known for his work on electricity and electrochemistry. Featured on the back of the 20 pound banknote in the 1990s.
- Actor who died in 1983 and was once described as one "of the three great actor knights of the mid-twentieth century", alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
- Tomb consists of a large bust and a pedestal with the words: "Workers of all lands unite".
- Actor known for Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar of Dibley.
- Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Liverpool born writer nominated five times for the Booker Prize and described in 2007 as a national treasure.
- This artist's lifesize nude of supermodel Kate Moss sold for £3.5 million.
- Author best known for The Forsyte Saga novels.
- British baker and confectioner Tom Smith was buried in Highgate in 1869 and famously invented what in 1847?
- Novelist and author of Cold Comfort Farm.
- Played the character Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday.
- Sadly died of heart disease on Christmas Day in 2016, at his Oxfordshire home.
- Played Varinia in the epic 1960 film Spartacus.
- On 2 February 2008, ITV dedicated that day's episode of You've Been Framed to this household name.
- Pioneer in the field of motion pictures who died on 5 May 1921.
- Australia's leading artist of the 20th century best known for his of paintings of legends from Australian history.
- Writer who penned the short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner".
- Comedian and entertainer best remembered for his trade-mark funny walk as the strutting Professor Wallofski.
- He was buried in Highgate Cemetery in April 2010, to the strains of the Sid Vicious version of "My Way".
Answers
- George Eliot
- Sir Ralph Richardson
- Michael Faraday
- Karl Marx
- Roger Lloyd-Pack
- Douglas Adams
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Lucian Freud
- John Galsworthy
- Invented the Christmas cracker
- Stella Gibbons
- Bob Hoskins
- George Michael
- Jean Simmons
- Jeremy Beadle
- William Friese-Greene
- Sidney Nolan
- Alan Sillitoe
- Max Wall
- Malcolm McLaren