Notable Interments and Memorials
A number of well-known people are buried in the cemetery, including:
- Henry Wentworth Acland, physician and educator, and Sarah Acland, after whom the Acland Home is named
- James Blish, the American expatriate author
- Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- John William Burgon, Dean of Chichester Cathedral
- Theophilus Carter, said to be the model for the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- George Claridge Druce, botanist and Mayor of Oxford
- Hugo Dyson, member of the Inklings
- Francis Edgeworth, statistician and economist
- Austin Farrer, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
- Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows
- Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge, classical historian formerly of Balliol, Hertford and Brasenose
- Charles Buller Heberden, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- William West Jones, Archbishop of Cape Town
- Sir Richard Lodge, historian
- Walter Pater, essayist and critic
- Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Lord Redcliffe-Maud, civil servant and Master of University College, Oxford, and his wife Jean Redcliffe-Maud
- John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
- George Rolleston, physician and zoologist
- John Stainer, composer and organist
- Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic and author
- Thomas Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Charles Williams, novelist, poet and member of the Inklings
- William Wallace, Scottish philosopher
A wooden grave marker that was used to mark the grave of the England Rugby captain Ronald Poulton-Palmer at Ploegsteert wood is affixed to a wall in the cemetery.
The cemetery contains three war graves that are maintained and registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - two British Army officers of World War I and a Royal Air Force officer of World War II.
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