Tom Sayers’ tomb, guarded by his “immortal dog … faithful to the last a great example of Victorian animal memorial art,” she says. Yet in choosing her favorite gravestone, Catharine Arnold, author of “Necropolis – London and its Dead,” picks someone removed from the worlds of literature and the arts, with which Highgate is normally associated. Highgate is the most famous of London’s great Victorian cemeteries, bursting with big names and bombastic memorials. Some of the best tombs belong to the largely forgotten, people who nonetheless seemed to have had big plans for the hereafter. Luminaries from Karl Marx (Highgate Cemetery) to the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst (Brompton Cemetery) to Johnson himself (Westminster Abbey, which is really not your everyday resting place) are buried here.īeing famous, though, doesn’t guarantee an interesting gravestone. The city has some of the best, most atmospheric, cemeteries in the world. Whereupon that man – presumably – is buried in London. “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” memorably proclaimed Samuel Johnson.
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