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 De La Motte to Forrester.

Other pages cover A’Beckett to Archer | Baggallay to Bury | Callender to Cummings | Gassiot to Justyne | Kearns to Myers | Napier to Quilter Raggi to Sutton |

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Freeman Gage De La Motte [ODNB gives Delamotte] (1813/14-1862), wood engraver; grave 5,647, square 5 (monument destroyed)                        [Entry appears under his father, William (1775-1863)]                                                                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/De_La_Motte,_William                                                                  ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7435

Charles Roger Phipps Dod (1793-1855), political journalist and author of reference works; grave 4,413, square 46 (monument destroyed)            DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dod,_Charles_Roger_Phipps                                                      ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7727  

George Dolland (1774-1852), optician; grave 2,205, square 62                                                                                                                                                  DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dollond,_George                                                                         ODNB:  https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-49855#odnb-9780198614128-e-49855-headword-4  [Entry appears under “Dollond Family”]  

Sir Henry Doulton (1820-1897), pottery manufacturer; grave 22,589, square 36)                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Doulton,_Henry                                                                 ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7944     

William Dowton (1764-1851), actor; grave 2,388/96) (monument destroyed)                                                                                                                          DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dowton,_William                                                                          ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7993

John Doyle (1797-1868), painter and caricaturist; grave 105, square 26                                                                                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Doyle,_John_(1797-1868)                                                             ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8003

George Drysdale (1824-1904), freethinker and advocate of contraception; grave 31,040, square 25                                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/39447  

Henry Dunn (1801-1878), educationalist; grave 10,491, square 41                                                                                                                                          ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38813

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Sir John Easthope (1784-1865), politician and journalist; grave 121, square 34                                                                                                                        DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Easthope,_John                                                                             ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8413

Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794-1881), dramatist, playwright and translator; grave 18,792, square 101 (monument destroyed)                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Ebsworth,_Mary_Emma                                                               ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8433

William Ellis (1800-1881), economist & educational reformer; grave 781, square 64 [see also his father in law, Sharon Turner, in the same grave]      DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Ellis,_William_(1800-1881)                                                         ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8721  

James Esdaile (1808-1859), East India Company surgeon and mesmerist; grave 6,291, square 36 (monument destroyed)                                          DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Esdaile,_James                                                                             ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8882

Alexander Charles Ewald (1842-1891), historical writer; grave 14,935, square 114 (monument destroyed)                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Ewald,_Alexander_Charles                                             ODNB:  https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9009#odnb-9780198614128-e-9009-headword-2  [Entry under his father’s, Ferdinand Ewald (1802-1874]  

Ferdinand Christian Ewald (1802-1874), Christian missionary to the Jews; grave 14,935, square 114 (monument destroyed)                                      DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1901_supplement/Ewald,_Alexander_Charles [first part of entry]            ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9009  

Sir James Eyre (1792-1857), surgeon and physician; grave 5,484, square 73 (monument destroyed)                                                                                  DNB:  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Eyre,_James_(1792-1857)                                                               ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9034

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Charles Hilton Fagge (1838-1883), physician; grave 19,889, square 21                                                                                                                                      DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Fagge,_Charles_Hilton                                                                   ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9061  

Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885), civil and mechanical engineer; grave 20,788, square 22 [square 21 in burial records]                                              DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Fairlie,_Robert_Francis                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9101

Frederick Field (1826-1885), chemist and mineralogist; grave 3,984, square 35 (monument destroyed)                                                                            DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Field,_Frederick_(1826-1885)                                                       ODNB:  https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9384  

Joshua Field (1786-1863), engineer; grave 3,804, square 27                                                                                                                                                        DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Field,_Joshua                                                                                  ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9390  

Alfred Henry Forrester (‘Alfred Crowquill’, 1804-1872), illustrator and writer; grave 13,816, square 123/119                                                                    DNB: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Forrester,_Alfred_Henry                                                              ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9893 

Robert Fairlie
Alfred Forrester