This page lists the names of individuals buried in the cemetery who are recorded in the pages of the original Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) and the newer Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). 

This page lists entries from Napier to Quilter.

Other pages cover A’Beckett to Archer | Baggallay to Bury | Callender to Cummings | De La Motte to Forrester | Gassiot to Justyne | Kearns to Myers | Raggi to Sutton |

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General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785-1860), army officer and writer; grave 6,853, square 22 (square 23 in burial records)                        DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Napier,_William_Francis_Patrick                                                   ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19772

Eliza Nelson, see under Mrs Henry Craven (1827-1908) 

Anthony Nesbit (1778-1859), schoolmaster and land surveyor; grave 397, square 73 (monument destroyed)                                                                  DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nesbit,_Anthony                                                                             ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19896

John Collis Nesbit (1818-1862), chemist and educationist; catacombs, public vault 82                                                                                                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nesbit,_John_Collis                                                                         ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19898

(James Edward) Leslie Newbigin (1909-1998), missionary and theologian; cremated                                                                                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/69282

William Newmarch (1820-1882), economic statistician; grave 12,852, square 91                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Newmarch,_William                                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/20027

Henry Minchin Noad (1815-1877), electrician; grave 16,626, square 21 (monument destroyed)                                                                                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Noad,_Henry_Minchin                                                                   ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/20214

Lt-General Sir Francis Booth Norman (1830-1901), army officer; grave 29,725, square 104                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Norman,_Francis_Booth                                                    ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35250

Alphonse Rene le Mire de Normandy (1809-1864), chemist; grave 9,170, square 18                                                                                                                DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Normandy,_Alphonse_Ren%C3%A9_Le_Mire_de                      ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/20261

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John Overs (1808-1844), author and cabinet maker; grave 576, square 8 (common grave)                                                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/56410

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Alexander Parkes (1813-1890), chemist and inventor; grave 20,927, square 7 (monument destroyed)                                                                                DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Parkes,_Alexander                                                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21350

Charles Pearson (1793-1862), lawyer and urban reformer; grave 5,534, square 52                                                                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38367

Charles Penfold (1798-1864), surveyor and valuer; grave 9,185, square 76                                                                                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/52330

John Henry Pepper (1821-1900), populariser of science, illusionist, and manager of the Royal Polytechnic Institution; grave 23,229, square 23        DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Pepper,_John_Henry                                                         ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21898

Alexander Perceval (1787-1858), politician and serjeant-at-arms of the House of Lords; grave 3,296, square 49                                                              DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Perceval,_Alexander                                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21909

Henry Pether (1801-1880), landscape painter; grave 17,932, square 30 (common grave)                                                                                                    ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-22032?rskey=r28GXD&result=1#odnb-9780198614128-e-22032-headword-2 [Entry under Sebastian Pether (1790-1844) which ODNB states was probably his father; the dates cited in ODNB for Henry Pether (1828-1865) are the dates he exhibited his paintings.]

William Phelps (1776-1856), topographer; grave 3,645, square 85                                                                                                                                              DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Phelps,_William                                                                               ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22094

Henry Wyndham Phillips (1819-1868), painter; grave 11,677, square 60 (monument destroyed)                                                                                         DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Phillips,_Thomas_(1770-1845) [Entry under that of his father, Thomas Phillips (1770-1845); gives year of birth as 1820]                                                                                                                                                                ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-22174#odnb-9780198614128-e-22174-headword-2 [Entry under that of his father, Thomas Phillips (1770-1845); gives year of birth as 1819]

Richard Phillips (1778-1851), chemist; grave 2,902, square 57                                                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Phillips,_Richard_(1778-1851)                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22168

Anna Pigeon (1832-1917), mountaineer; grave 30,190, square 123                                                                                                                                          ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/50648

Ellen Pigeon (Mrs Abbot, 1836-1902), mountaineer; grave 30,190, square 123                                                                                                                      ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-50648?rskey=hSXROk&result=3#odnb-9780198614128-e-50648-headword-2 [Entry under that of her sister, Anna Pigeon]  

Arthur Beresford Pite (1861-1934), architect and educator; grave 31,852, square 23)                                                                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/56389  

(Edward) Stanley Poole (1830-1867), Arabic scholar; grave 10,405, square 61                                                                                                                          DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Poole,_Sophia [Entry at the end of the entry for his mother, Sophia Land Poole]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-22522#odnb-9780198614128-e-22522-headword-2 [Entry under that of his mother, Sophia Land Poole]

Mrs Sophia Lane Poole (1804-1891), travel writer; grave 10,405, square 61                                                                                                                              DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Poole,_Sophia                                                                                 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22522  

John Tidd Pratt (1797-1870), barrister and civil servant; grave 10,798/90 (monument destroyed)                                                                                        DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Pratt,_John_Tidd                                                                             ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22706

Sir Charles Bradley Pritchard (1837-1903), administrator in India; grave 30,742, square 64 (grave 5,307, square 64 in burial records)                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Pritchard,_Charles_Bradley                                             ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35617

Samuel Prout (1783-1852), watercolour painter; grave 3,107, square 60                                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Prout,_Samuel                                                                                 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22844

William Morley Punshon (1824-1881), Wesleyan Methodist minister and public lecturer; grave 18,582, square 60                                                          DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Punshon,_William_Morley                                                             ODND: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22892 

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Harry Quilter (1851-1907), art critic; grave 27,582, square 77                                                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Quilter,_Harry                                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35641

William Quilter (1808-1888), accountant; grave 14,879, square 77                                                                                                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/48129