Wolvercote Cemetery
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Wolvercote Cemetery is in the north Oxford suburb of Wolvercote 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.
[edit] Selected burials
The following people are buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, many academics at Oxford University:
- Isaiah Berlin, philosopher.
- E. J. Bowen, chemist.
- Sir Thomas Chapman, the 7th Baronet of Westmeath in Ireland, and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. Lawrence.
- Elizabeth Jennings, poet.
- James Legge, Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.
- Dimitri Obolensky, Russian prince and Oxford professor.
- John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, author and academic, together with his wife Edith.
- John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003), eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien.
