Norwood and the DNB T to Z - Friends Of West Norwood Cemetery

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 Talfourd to Zambaco.

Francis Talfourd (1828-1862), playwright; grave 1,452, square 34 (commemorated on memorial but not buried in the grave) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Talfourd,_Francis ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26950

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854), writer, judge, and politician; grave 1,452, square 34 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Talfourd,_Thomas_Noon ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26951

Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), sugar refiner and benefactor; grave 19,897, square 38) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Tate,_Henry ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26984

George Tattersall (1817-1849), artist and architect; grave 606, square 47 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tattersall,_Richard [Entry under that of his father, Richard Tattersall (1724-1795)] ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-64817#odnb-9780198614128-e-64817-headword-4 [Entry under Tattersall family]

Richard Tattersall (1785-1859), bloodstock auctioneer; grave 606, square 47 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tattersall,_Richard [Entry under that of his father, Richard Tattersall (1724-1795)] ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-64817?rskey=3QuVDZ&result=7#odnb-9780198614128-e-64817-headword-3 [Entry under Tattersall family]

Richard Tattersall (1812-1870), bloodstock auctioneer; grave 16,090, square 124 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tattersall,_Richard [Entry under that of his father, Richard Tattersall (1724-1795)] ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/64817 [Entry under Tattersall family]

Annie Royle Taylor (1855-1922), traveller and missionary; grave 10,657, square 43 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/45564

William Tegg (1816-1895), publisher; grave 12,097, square 87 (square 88 in burial records; monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tegg,_William ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-27102#odnb-9780198614128-e-27102-headword-2 [Entry under his father, Thomas Tegg (1776-1846)]

David Thomas (1813-1894), Congregational minister; grave 12,801, square 8 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Thomas,_David_(1813-1894) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27213

Francis Sheppard Thomas (1793/94-1857), secretary of the Public Record Office; catacomb 34 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Thomas,_Francis_Sheppard ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27217

Theophilus Thompson (1807-1860), physician; grave 7,144, square 35 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Thompson,_Theophilus ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27277

John Thornton (1783-1861), civil servant; grave 5,629, square 62 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Thornton,_Samuel [Entry under his father, Samuel Thornton (1754-1838)] ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-27362#odnb-9780198614128-e-27362-headword-2 [Entry under his father, Samuel Thornton (1754-1838)]

Richard Thornton (1776-1865), merchant, underwriter, and financier; grave 9,815, square 63 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38065

William Tidd (1760-1847). ; grave 1,653, square 62 (monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tidd,_William (incorrectly states he was buried in Sussex) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27434

George Tinworth (1843-1913), sculptor and potter; grave 18,786, square 118 (monument destroyed and grave reused) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1927_supplement/Tinworth,_George ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36525

Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect; catacomb 90 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Tite,_William ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27479

Joseph Towne (1808-1879), anatomical modeller; grave 4,045, square 35 (monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Towne,_Joseph ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27600

Henry Frederic Turle (1835-1883), journal editor; grave 11,845, square 74 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Turle,_Henry_Frederic ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27832

James Turle (1802-1882), organist; grave 11,845, square 74 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Turle,_James ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27833

Sharon Turner (1768-1847), historian; grave 781, square 64 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Turner,_Sharon ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27866 [see also his son in law, William Ellis, in the same grave]

Panayis Athanase Vagliano (1814-1902), merchant and shipowner; grave 27, square 42 (Greek enclosure) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/54387

Frederick Vining (c1790-1871), actor; grave 3,539, square 48 (square 47 in burial records; monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Vining,_George_J [Entry under that of his nephew, George J. Vining (1824-1875)] ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-53565#odnb-9780198614128-e- 53565-headword-2 [Entry under the Vining Family]

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), botanist; grave 4,870, square 48 (monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Ward,_Nathaniel_Bagshaw ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28701

James Watson (1799-1874), radical and publisher; grave 15,089, square 11(monument missing) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Watson,_James_(1799-1874) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28842

Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914), writer and poet; grave 11,576, square 97 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1927_supplement/Watts-Dunton,_Walter_Theodore ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36785

Mrs Harriet Waylett (Miss Cooke, later Mrs Lee, 1798-1851), actress and singer; grave 2,892, square 74 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Waylett,_Harriet ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28906 (See also the entry for her husband, George Alexander Lee)

Sir Richard Everard Webster (Viscount Alverstone) (1842-1915),judge; grave 16,457, square 76 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1927_supplement/Webster,_Richard_Everard ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36810

Thomas Webster (1810-1875), barrister; grave 1,858, square 65 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Webster,_Thomas_(1810-1875) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28946

Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897-1977), writer; grave 26,071, square 50 (inscription only, Wheatley’s ashes are buried at Brookwood) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31823

Thomas Wheeler (1754-1847), apothecary and botanist; grave 1,765, square 18 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wheeler,_Thomas ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29190

Joseph Whitaker (1820-1895), publisher; grave 26,761, square 124 (moved from grave 17,887, square 89; destroyed in 1980) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Whitaker,_Joseph ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29224

Joseph Vernon Whitaker (1845-1895), publisher; grave 17,887, square 89 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Whitaker,_Joseph [Entry under that of his father, Joseph Whitaker] ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-29224#odnb-9780198614128-e-29224-headword-2 [Entry under that of his father, Joseph Whitaker]

Walter White (1811-1893), librarian and writer; grave 25,346, square 24 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/White,_Walter ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29277

Henry Widdicomb (1813-1868), comic actor; grave 11,341, square 79 (monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Widdicomb,_Henry ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29352

John Esdaile Widdicomb (1787-1854); grave 4,158, square 31 (common grave) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Widdicomb,_Henry [Entry appears under that of his son, Henry Widdicomb] ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29352 [Entry appears under that of his son, Henry Widdicomb]

William Mathieu Williams (1820-1892), science teacher and industrial chemist; grave 15,429, square 21 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Williams,_William_Mattieu ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29563

James Wimshurst (1832-1903), electrical engineer and shipwright; grave 30,413, square 81 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Wimshurst,_James ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36974

Thomas Winter (‘Tom Spring’, 1795-1851), pugilist; grave 154, square 61 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Winter,_Thomas_(1795-1851) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29768

William Frederick Woodington (1806-1893), engraver, sculptor, and painter; grave 16,784, square 117 (monument destroyed) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Woodington,_William_Frederick ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29928

Sir Albert William Woods (1816-1904), herald; grave 12,786, square 47 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Woods,_Albert_William ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37009

William Wright (1837-1899), missionary and author; grave 16,899, square 39 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wright,_William_(1837-1899) ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30070

William Wyon (1795-1851), die-engraver and medallist; grave 2,842, square 33 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wyon,_William ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30173

Edward Yates (1838-1907), builder; grave 22,804, square 36 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/48410

Sir James Arndell Youl (1811-1904), pisciculturist; grave 31,004, square 104 (moved from catacomb No. 46 N) DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Youl,_James_Arndell ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37069

Marie Terpsithea Zambaco (née Cassavetti, 1843-1914), pre-Raphaelite model and lover of Sir Edward Burne-Jones; grave 1,971, square 28 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.64756