Cemitério de Highgate

Túmulo de Karl Marx, East Cemetery

O Cemitério de Highgate, oficialmente chamado de Cemitério de St. James, fica no bairro de Highgate, no norte da cidade de Londres, Inglaterra. Foi consagrado pelo Bispo de Londres em 1839, quatro dias antes do 20º aniversário da Rainha Vitória.

O sociólogo alemão Karl Marx, juntamente com sua esposa, está enterrado ali, no setor reservado aos banidos pela Igreja Anglicana. Ao lado do túmulo, há a inscrição "Trabalhadores de todas as terras, uni-vos" e um busto de bronze. A governanta da família, Helena Demuth, amante de Marx e mãe de um de seus filhos, também está sepultada na mesma tumba.

O cemitério ainda é famoso por suas "catacumbas egípcias", com os túmulos de John Galsworthy, George Eliot, Michael Faraday e Dante Gabriel Rossetti. O ex-agente secreto russo Alexandre Litvinenko, morto por envenenamento, foi enterrado ali.

O lugar tem fama de mal-assombrado. De 1967 a 1983, pessoas alegaram ter encontrado túmulos abertos e visto fantasmas e vampiros. Explorando esta fama, em 2001, o game Drácula 2 - O Último Santuário reconstituiu o Cemitério de Highgate em um ambiente 3D, juntamente com outros cenários mórbidos.

Sepultamentos notáveis

Cemitério leste

• Douglas Adams, autor de The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy e outras novelas.
• Farzad Bazoft, journalist, executed by Saddam Hussein's regime
• Jeremy Beadle, television presenter [ashes buried in the west of the cemetery]
• Patrick Caulfield, painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvasses
• Lucy Lane Clifford, British novelist and journalist, the wife of William Kingdon Clifford
• William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher, husband of Lucy Lane Clifford
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans — the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross), novelist, common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him
• Paul Foot, campaigning journalist and nephew of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot
• Lou Gish, actress, daughter of Sheila Gish
• Sheila Gish, actress
• Robert Grant VC. Soldier and police constable
• George Jacob Holyoake (Midland Social Reformer and founder of the Cooperative Movement)
• Claudia Jones, black Communist and fighter for social justice
• William Friese-Greene, cinema pioneer. The memorial is credited to Edwin Lutyens
• Mansoor Hekmat, Communist leader and founder of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran and Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
• George Henry Lewes, English philosopher and critic, common law husband of George Eliot and buried next to her.
• Anna Mahler, sculpturess and daughter of Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler
• Karl Marx, philosopher, historian, sociologist, and economist
• Frank Matcham, theatre architect
• Carl Mayer, Austrian-German screenwriter of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and Sunrise
• Malcolm McLaren, punk empresário / original manager of the Sex Pistols
• Sir Ralph Richardson, actor
• Ralph Miliband, left wing political theorist, father of David Miliband and Ed Miliband
• Dachine Rainer, poet and anarchist
• Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Canadian railway financier and diplomat
• Herbert Spencer, evolutionary biologist and laissez-faire economic philosopher
• Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the DNB, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
• Feliks Topolski, Polish-born British expressionist painter
• Max Wall, comedian and entertainer
• Opal Whiteley, American writer
• Edward Richard Woodham, survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade and Chairman of the committee for the 21st anniversary celebration of the charge at Alexandra Palace in Outubro 1875

Cemitério oeste

• Jane Arden, Welsh-born film director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet.
• Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor
• Beryl Bainbridge, author
• George Samuel Bentley, printer & publisher of the London Standard Newspaper 1879-1890
• Julius Beer, owner of The Observer and his 8 year old daughter, who the mausoleum was originally created for. This is the largest structure on site and has recently been restored to close to its original splendor
• Jacob Bronowski, scientist, creator of the television series The Ascent of Man
• Robert Caesar Childers, oriental scholar and writer
• Edmund Chipp, organist and composer
• John Singleton Copley, Lord Chancellor and son of the American artist
• Sir Charles Cowper, Premier of NSW, Australia
• The family vault of Robert Monach and WH Crossland. In this vault are buried William Henry Crossland's parents-in-law (the Monachs), his brother, his wife, his mistress, his daughter and eldest son, though not Crossland himself
• Charles Cruft, founder of Crufts dog show
• David Devant, theatrical magician
• Alfred Lamert Dickens, the younger brother of Charles Dickens
• Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles Dickens
• John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens, parents of Charles Dickens and models for Micawber and Mrs Nickleby
• The Druce family vault, one of whose members was (falsely) alleged to have been the 5th Duke of Portland.
• Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist
• Lucian Freud, British painter
• John Galsworthy, author and Nobel Prize winner (he was cremated and his ashes scattered, memorial only)
• Stella Gibbons, novelist
• Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness and other novels
• James Holman, sightless 19th-century adventurer known as "the Blind Traveller"
• Alexander Litvinenko, Russian dissident turned critic, murdered by poisoning in London
• Christina Rossetti, poet
• Frances Polidori Rossetti, mother of Dante Gabriel, Christina and William Michael Rossetti
• William Michael Rossetti, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Thomas Sayers, Victorian pugilist
• Elizabeth Siddal, wife and model of artist/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Jean Simmons, British actress
• Alfred Stevens, sculptor, painter, and designer
• Arthur Waley, translator and oriental scholar
• George Wombwell, menagerie exhibitor
• Ellen Wood, author
• Adam Worth, criminal and possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty
• Patrick Wymark, actor