Golders Green Crematorium - Cremations

Cremations

Among those whose ashes are retained or were scattered here, are:

• Larry Adler, American harmonica player
• Kingsley Amis, British writer, one of the Angry young men
• Boris Anrep, Russian artist
• Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British soldier, VC winner
• Lionel Bart, composer of Oliver! and many other shows and songs
• Simon Blumenfeld, writer and columnist
• Enid Blyton, children's author (Famous Five, Noddy)
• Marc Bolan, musician, poet and writer (founder of T.Rex)
• Bernard Bresslaw, Carry on Star
• Eric Coates, English composer of light music
• Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer
• Cicely Courtneidge, actress and comedienne
• Walter Crane, English artist and book illustrator
• Tony Crombie, English jazz musician
• Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
• James Dewar, British chemist and physicist (inventor of the Dewar flask or vacuum flask)
• Edith Durham, writer, traveller and anthropologist
• Ray Ellington, English musician
• Barry Evans, actor
• Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (there is a rosebed in her memory)
• Molly Fink, Australian socialite and wife of Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman of Pudukkottai.
• Bud Flanagan, singer and Crazy Gang star
• George Frampton, British sculptor
• Lynne Frederick, actress
• Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, also a psychoanalyst, especially of children
• Sigmund and Martha Freud, father of modern psychoanalysis and his wife
• Ernest George, English architect (and who designed this crematorium with Alfred Yeates)
• Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian born architect and designer of furniture
• Charles Gray, English actor
• Hughie Green Quiz show host
• Joyce Grenfell, actress and comedienne
• John Gross, writer
• Irene Handl, actress and comedienne
• Tommy Handley, British comedian
• Robert Harbin, South African born magician and writer
• Cedric Hardwicke, English actor
• Jack Hawkins, actor
• Tubby Hayes, English jazz musician
• Ian Hendry, actor
• Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, British Conservative politician
• Alex James, footballer
• Sid James, actor and Carry On star
• Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, architect
• Jimmy Jewel, comedian
• Yootha Joyce, actress and comedienne
• Geoffrey Keen, actor
• Albert William Ketèlbey, English composer, conductor and pianist
• Johnny Kidd, singer
• Alexander Korda, film producer
• David Kossoff, actor
• Paul Kossoff, musician (guitarist with Free, among others)
• Kit Lambert, manager and record producer for The Who
• Percy Wyndham Lewis, artist and writer
• Edwin Lutyens, architect whose designs include The Cenotaph
• Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright and screenwriter
• Moore Marriott, British comic actor
• Marthanda Bhairava Tondaiman, Raja of Pudukkottai 1886-1928
• Matt Monro, singer
• Keith Moon, musician (drummer for The Who)
• Janet Munro, actress
• Ivor Novello, actor, writer and lyricist
• Seán O'Casey, Irish playwright
• Joe Orton, playwright
• Val Parnell, impressario
• Anna Pavlova, ballerina
• Don Revie, football manager
• Ronnie Scott, British jazz musician
• Phil Seamen, British jazz musician
• Peter Sellers, actor and comedian
• Geoffrey Shaw composer
• Ella Shields, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator. Singer of Burlington Bertie.
• Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist
• Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula)
• Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, surgeon and founder of the Cremation Society of England
• Karl Tunberg, American screenwriter, author and film producer; past-President WGA, West (USA)
• Tommy Vance, British broadcaster
• Conrad Veidt, German actor
• Vesta Victoria, music hall performer
• Bernie Winters, comedian

Among those cremated here, but whose ashes are elsewhere, are:

• Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative politician, ashes removed to Worcester Cathedral
• Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Neville Chamberlain, British Conservative politician, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Bebe Daniels, American actress, singer and writer, with her husband, Ben Lyon, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood
• Ian Dury, English singer-lyricist, best known for No. 1 hit Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick, his ashes have reputedly been scattered in the Thames, there is a memorial bench in Richmond Park
• T. S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic, ashes in St Michael's Church in East Coker
• Lily Elsie, actress (location of ashes unknown)
• Sir Edward German, composer, ashes buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire.
• W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and author, who with Arthur Sullivan wrote the Savoy Operas, ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Stanmore.
• Sir Charles Henry, expatriate Australian businessman and M.P. in the British Parliament, ashes buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery.
• Gary Holton, actor best known as the star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his ashes rest in Maesgwastad Cemetery, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire
• Kenneth Horne, comedian and businessman, star of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, ashes have reputedly been moved to an unknown location
• John Inman, actor, star of Are You Being Served?, location of ashes unknown
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, Liberal politician and lawyer, ashes buried at the nearby Jewish cemetery.
• Henry James, American-born British novelist, ashes buried at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, ashes were buried in the grave of the oldest of his four children in the churchyard of St Cadoc's Cheriton on the Gower Peninsula.
• Hetty King, Music Hall artiste and male impersonator.
• Rudyard Kipling, British author and poet, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey
• Leonid Krasin, Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat, ashes buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Alice Liddell (see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• Vivien Leigh, English actress, ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill pond, near Blackboys, Sussex
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, ashes buried at the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore
• Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, the first member of the British Royal Family to be cremated, ashes buried at the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore
• John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Liberal politician, ashes buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.
• Arnold Ridley, author and actor, ashes rest in Bath Abbey Cemetery
• H. G. Pelissier, actor, composer and satirist, ashes rest in Marylebone cemetery
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, ashes, with those of his wife, scattered at sea; commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial here.
• King Prajadhipok of Thailand, ashes removed to Chakri Throne Hall in the Grand Palace, Bangkok
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe, zoologist, founder of the British Ornithologists' Club and Assistant Keeper of the British Museum
• F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, lawyer-statesman, ashes buried at Charlton, Northamptonshire.
• H. G. Wells, English author, ashes scattered at sea
• Amy Winehouse, singer-songwriter