• The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London W10 4RA •

BRUNEL 200at Kensal Green

The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery will be offering a special tour onSunday, 9 April 2006, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birthof the great British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), andto remember the many other distinguished engineers, architects andentrepreneurs buried at this remarkable 19th century necropolis.

The Brunel family monument at Kensal Green was designed by Sir MarcIsambard Brunel (1769-1849), a polymath regarded by many as an evenmore extraordinary engineer than his famous son. Together, the Brunelscompleted the world’s first underwater tunnel, crossing the Thames fromRotherhithe to Wapping. Isambard Kingdom Brunel went on to build 25railways, 125 railway bridges, eight seaside piers and five suspensionbridges. As Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, his workincluded two viaducts, Maidenhead Bridge, Box Tunnel and the verystations at either end of the route – London Paddington and BristolTemple Meads. Yet he is perhaps best remembered for his work on TheGreat Western (the first transatlantic steamship), The Great Britain (the firstgreat ocean liner) and The Great Eastern (then much the largest ship theworld had ever seen).

The Brunel 200 Tour led by The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery willcommence at 14:00 on Sunday, 9�April 2006, on the porch of theAnglican Chapel at the centre of the cemetery. A donation of £5 perhead will go toward the work of the Friends in preserving, studying andpromoting the historic monuments and notable personalities associatedwith the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green. Nearest tubestations: Kensal Green and Ladbroke Grove; for map, directions andfurther information, please visit our Web site at www.kensalgreen.co.uk.

Many of the leading engineers, architects, entrepreneurs and artists of the great age of

railways are buried at The General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, including Sir

William Patrick Andrew, James Lloyd Ashbury, John Ashbury, Peter William Barlow,

William Beattie, James Beatty, Richard Vicars Boyle, John Braithwaite, William Duff

Bruce, George Rowden Burnell, Sir Samuel Canning, Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, John

Chapman, Sir John Coode, Thomas Russell Crampton, Charles Louis Aimé de Bergue,

Charles Edmund de Bertodano, James Dredge, John Edward Errington, Sir George

Lancelot Eyles, William Powell Frith, Charles Geach, Francis Giles, Joseph Glynn,

Thomas Longridge Gooch, Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon, John Grant, Sidney Hall,

Philip Hardwick, Philip Charles Hardwick, George Harrison, George Willoughby

Hemans, John Mortimer Heppel, John Lionel Hood, John Callcott Horsley, Lewis

Henry Isaacs, Ralph Ward Jackson, Robert Jeffrey, Henry Batson Joyner, Sir John Kelk

Bt, Robert William Kennard, Henry Kirtley, Christopher Bagot Lane, Michael Lane,

Joseph Locke, William Martley, John Robinson McClean, David McIntosh, Vice Admiral

Constantine Richard Moorsom, William Scarth Moorsom, George Bolland Newton,

John Meeson Parsons, John Shae Perring, George Henry Phipps, Benjamin Piercy,

William Alexander Provis, James Meadows Rendel, Sir John Rennie the younger,

Charles Russell, Thomas Manzon Rymer-Jones, Joseph D’Aguilar Samuda, Charles

Alexander Saunders, Henry Sayer, Benjamin Shaw, Sir Carl William Siemens FRS,

William Unwin Sims, Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Thomas Samuel Speck, George

Percival Spooner, Richard St-George-Moore, Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson,

Francis Croughton Stileman, John Tenniel, John Wellesley Thomas, Edward Wilson,

William Winans, Samuel Hansard Yockney and William Yolland.

All these eminent figures feature in A Railway

Pantheon: An alphabetical biographical gazetteer,

illustrated with line drawings of their monuments, of

railway engineers and others connected with railways

buried at Kensal Green Cemetery (FOKGC and Henry

Vivian-Neal, London, 2005; 28pp, A4). This

comprehensive guide to notable personalities

associated with railways – engineers, entrepreneurs,

architects, artists, contractors and critics – includes a

brief biographical note, line drawing of every

monument, and a grid plan of the cemetery to

facilitate location. A Railway Pantheon is available for

£3.00 from the Friends’ bookstall in the Dissenters’

Chapel after the tour, or by post for £3.75 inc. p&p, from The Chief Guiding

Supervisor, The Friends of Kensal Green, 25 Rainham Road, London NW10 5DL.