Wolvercote Cemetery - Selected Burials

Selected Burials

The following people are buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, many of them academics at Oxford University:

• Sir Ernest Bennett (1865-1947), Oxford fellow, politician, explorer, writer
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), philosopher
• E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist
• Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) of Westmeath in Ireland, and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. Lawrence
• T. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and Oxford Diocesan Surveyor
• H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher and professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University
• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of Middle Eastern history
• Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
• Adam Koc (1891–1969), Polish politician, soldier and journalist
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), historian
• James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University
• Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian
• James Murray (1837–1915), lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and Oxford professor
• Professor David Patterson, CBE (1922–2005), Oxford fellow and Hebrew scholar
• John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973), author and academic, together with his wife Edith
• John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003), eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Dino Vittorio Marcellinus Toso (1969–2008), engineer