Graves
Thousands of people have been interred in Fulham Cemetery since it was consecrated on 3 August 1865. The first interment, on the same day, was of a child. Unusually for the 1860s, the thirteenth interment was that of a centenarian from the Fulham Union Workhouse.
One of the aims of the Fulham Cemetery Friends is to research the history of the graves in the cemetery, to bring to light some of their stories.
Notable graves
Publisher of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other Decadents.
Preacher and social reformer, born in Twynholm, Scotland. (The origin of "Twynholm" place names in the Fulham area.)
Victorian diocesan architect, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.
Proprietor of the Queens Arms public house in Knightsbridge.
Sergeant Joseph John
American civil war soldier.
George Nicoll Barnes
Trade unionist, MP for Glasgow, Labour leader and signed the Treaty of Versailles.
Lieutenant-General Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage KCB
Veteran of Waterloo, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey 1863–68.
Travers Twiss
Professor of international law, who, at the invitation of King Leopold III of Belgium, drafted the constitution for the Congo Free State.
Maxwell Simpson
Eminent Irish scientist.
William Blakeley
Comic actor well known as a ‘mugger’ on account of the comic faces he pulled on stage.
Robert Dalzell, 11th Earl of Carnwath
A member of one of the oldest Scottish families and a representative peer for Scotland.
War graves
There are 179 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war here. 7 of these are now commemorated on a single Special Memorial headstone. There are a further 57 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, those whose graves are not marked by headstones are named on a Screen Wall memorial in the main War Plot.
Read more: Memorials 👉
Find out more: All the war graves can be looked up on the website of the War Graves Commission 👉