Churchyard
Famous individuals buried in its churchyard include:
- Walter Besant, novelist and historian
- John Constable, romantic painter
- Peter Cook, writer and comedian
- Eleanor Farjeon, author
- C. E. M. Joad, philosopher
- Kay Kendall, actress, film star of the 1950s
- Hugh Gaitskell, Labour Party leader from 1955 until 1963
- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer
- George du Maurier, author and cartoonist, father of Gerald du Maurier and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
- Gerald du Maurier, actor and manager, father of Daphne du Maurier, novelist, and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
- Arthur Llewelyn Davies and his wife Sylvia (née du Maurier) who befriended J M Barrie and whose children inspired Peter Pan
- Jack and Peter Llewelyn Davies (children of the above) in the same grave as their parents and their brother Michael, in a separate grave
- Anton Walbrook, Austrian Actor
- Temple Moore, architect
The churchyard contains 8 war graves, comprising 6 servicemen from World War I and 2 from World War II.
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Famous quotes containing the word churchyard:
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)