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 Baggallay to Bury.

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

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Sir Richard Baggallay (1816-1888), judge; grave 13,875, square 33                                                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Baggallay,_Richard                                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1031  

Charles Baily (1815-1878), architect and archaeologist; grave 1,900, square 48                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Baily,_Charles                                                                                 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1075  

John Walker Baily (1809-1873), archaeologist, brother of Charles Baily; grave 1,900, square 48                                                                                                  DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Baily,_John_Walker                                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1078  

Mary Bannister, Mrs Thomas Wilson (d.1877), equestrienne; grave 16,702, square 15 (common grave)                                                                                  ODNB: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-53834?rskey=NHX5AX&result=1#odnb-9780198614128-e-53834-headword-34 [Entry under that of her father, James Bannister (1758/9-1836)]  

Hannah Bolton Barlow (1851-1916), ceramicist for Doulton’s; grave 31,050, square 100                                                                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/50578  

Sir Joseph Barnby (1838-1896), composer and conductor; grave 26,739, square 120                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Barnby,_Joseph                                                                         ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1465  

John Henry Barrow (1796-1858), journalist and writer; grave 5,815, square 17 (common grave)                                                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/56408  

Thomas Barry (c1810-1857), clown at Astley’s; grave 5,027, square 110                                                                                                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/53835  

Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926), Marxist theoretician and activist; cremated                                                                                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/45906  

Charles Baxter (1809-1879), portrait and subject painter; grave 2,078, square 7-22 (monument destroyed)                                                                          DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Baxter,_Charles                                                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1729  

Thomas Miller Beach (otherwise Thomas Billes Beach), Major Henri Le Caron (1841-1894), spy; grave 25,795, square 86                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Beach,_Thomas_Miller                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1792  

Thomas Willert Beale (1828-1894), impresario and composer; grave 26,001, square 21                                                                                                       DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Beale,_Thomas_Willert                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1805  

Francis Bedford (1799-1883), bookbinder; grave 408, square 61 (monument destroyed)                                                                                                     DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Bedford,_Francis                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1928  

Paul John Bedford (1792-1871), comedian, actor; grave 9,290, square 72 (monument destroyed)                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bedford,_Paul                                                                                ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1931  

Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson, 1836-1865), writer on household management and journalist; grave 8,348, square 64                                        ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37172

Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-1877), publisher and journalist; grave 8,348, square 64                                                                                                      ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/45481  

John Belcher (1841-1913), architect; grave 33,607, square 93                                                                                                                                                     DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1927_supplement/Belcher,_John                                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30679  

Richard Bentley (1794-1871), printer & publisher; grave 736, square 61                                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bentley,_Richard_(1794-1871)                                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2171  

Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898), steel maker; grave 27,643, square 99                                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Bessemer,_Henry                                                                   ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2287

Elhanen Bicknell (1788-1861), art patron and businessman; grave 5,930, square 38                                                                                                             DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bicknell,_Elhanan                                                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2356  

Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804-1845), author and journalist; grave 1,345, square 98 (monument destroyed)                                                               DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Blanchard,_Samuel_Laman                                                         ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2603  

John Marriott Blashfield (1811-1882), terracotta manufacturer; grave 13,442, square 74                                                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/49435  

Henry George Bohn (1796-1884), translator and publisher; grave 4,321, square 63 (monument destroyed)                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bohn,_Henry_George                                                                    ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2770  

Robert Kanzow Bowley (1813-1870), music administrator; grave 12,851, square 33 (monument destroyed)                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bowley,_Robert_Kanzow                                                               ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3074  

Sir Edward William Brabrook (1839-1930), civil servant; grave 26,537, square 83                                                                                                                ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/74653  

William Hardwick Bradbury (1832-1892), publisher; grave 24,774, square 21                                                                                                                      ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/56409  

Revd John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; grave 24,633, square 19 (St Mary at Hill plot)                                                                             DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brand,_John_(1744-1806)                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3254  

Prof William Thomas Brande (1788-1866), chemist; grave 1,177, square 98                                                                                                                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brande,_William_Thomas                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3258  

John Syer Bristowe (1827-1895), physician; grave 11,243, square 34                                                                                                                                         DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Bristowe,_John_Syer                                                        ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3453  

John Britton (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer; grave 5,235, square 119                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Britton,_John_(1771-1857)                                                            ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3458  

Henry James Brooke (1771-1857), crystallographer; grave 1,420, square 61 (monument destroyed)                                                                                 DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brooke,_Henry_James                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3547  

John Cargill Brough (1834-1872), science journalist; grave 10,978, square 108                                                                                                                     ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/56142  

Lionel Brough (1836-1909), actor; grave 29,546, square 108 (monument destroyed)                                                                                                         ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32100  

James Baldwin Brown (1820-1884), Congregational minister; grave 7,167, square 40                                                                                                           DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brown,_James_Baldwin_(1820-1884)                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3616

Robert Brown (1842-1895), geographer; grave 27,034, square 120 (moved from grave 26,601, square 106)                                                                     DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Brown,_Robert_(1842-1895)                                           ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3646  

Samuel Brown (1811-1875), actuary and statistician; grave 15,318, square 80                                                                                                                           DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brown,_Samuel_(1810-1875)                                                      ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3650  

James Lumsdaine Bryden (1833-1880), surgeon and medical statistician; grave 18,344, square 99                                                                                 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/57376  

Peter Buchan (1790-1854), collector of Scottish ballads (DNB) & folk-song collector, historian, and publisher (ODNB); grave 4,138, square 111 (monument destroyed)                                                                                                                                                                                                                               DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Buchan,_Peter                                                                               ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3826  

William Burges (1827-1881), architect and designer; grave 4,478, square 34                                                                                                                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Burges,_William                                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3972

Thomas Talbot Bury (1811-1877), architect and engraver; grave 5,935, square 7                                                                                                                   DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Bury,_Thomas_Talbot                                                                       ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4156