St Peter's Church, Petersham

Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), playwright, and his wife Joan Carlile (c. 1606–1679), portrait painter, who had lived at Petersham Lodge in Richmond Park, are buried together in the churchyard, but the location of their grave is not known.[15]

The oldest headstone in the churchyard is that of Mary Karze (d. 1686).[5][16] It is Grade II listed.[17]

Mary Burdekin (d. 1772), believed to be the first baker of Maids of Honour pastries, who had a shop in Hill Street, Richmond,[5] was described as a "[p]astry cook who by her diligence industry and anxyous care to please acquired many friends and much esteem".[4]

William Duckett, MP (1685–1749), was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1741.[18]

Sir Thomas Jenner (1637–1707), barrister, Baron of the Exchequer, and Justice of the Common Pleas, died at Montrose House, his house in Petersham.[5]

Nicholas Sprimont (1716–1771), silversmith who ran the Chelsea porcelain factory, the first important porcelain manufactory in England.[19]

The explorer Captain George Vancouver (1757–1798) wrote A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean, And Round The World[20] when staying in Petersham.[5] His grave is Grade II listed.[21][22]

Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756–1818), a Royal Navy officer best known for discovering and exploring Lord Howe Island (in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand), is buried in the family vault of his wife, Anne Georgianna Henrietta Johnston.[23] A plaque commemorating Ball was added to the Johnston tomb on 20 October 2013, at a service attended by the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.[24]

Mary Berry (1763–1852), author and editor, and her sister Agnes Berry (1764–1852).[5][19]

Major General Sir Jeremiah Bryant (1783–1845), a British Army officer in the Bengal Army.[22]

Edward James Mortimer Collins (1827–1876) was an English novelist, journalist and poet. He died at the Nightingale Hotel while visiting his son-in-law.[25][26] There is no memorial stone.[27]

Theodora Jane Cowper (d. 1824), cousin of the poet William Cowper.[5]

Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764–1839), politician and writer on music, is buried in a Grade II-listed tomb in the churchyard.[28][29]

Gordon Forbes (1738–1828), a senior officer in the British Army,[30] died in a house on Ham Common that was later known as Gordon House.[31]

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830), an orientalist and philologist, is buried in the family tomb in the churchyard. The family monument was erected by his half-brother, William Halhed.[28][32]

Harriet Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian (d. 1833), daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.[16] Also Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott (1784–1857), an English novelist and a landscape painter.[33]

Lieutenant-General Sir William George Moore (1795–1862), who died at Montrose House, was the son of Francis Moore, a younger brother of General Sir John Moore. He served in the Peninsular War and was at the Battle of Waterloo.[34][35]

Albert Henry Scott (1844–1865), photographer and third son of the architect George Gilbert Scott, who designed his tomb. It is Grade II listed.[36][37]

Lord Charles Spencer (1740–1820), courtier and politician from the Spencer family. He died in Petersham while visiting his son.[38]

Charles Stuart (1753–1801), a nobleman and soldier, who captured Minorca from Spain in 1798.[39][40]

Richard Taylor (1781–1858), naturalist and publisher of scientific journals,[4][41] retired to Richmond in 1852.

Robert Beloe (1905–1984), chief education officer for Surrey, produced the Beloe Report[42] that led directly to the implementation of the Certificate of Secondary Education, the CSE examination, which existed from 1965 to 1987.

Maggie Black (1921–1999), author and food historian, published No Room for Tourists (1965), a semi-biographical account of life under apartheid, and went on to write several books on food history, such as The Medieval Cookbook (1992), as well as children's books.[43]

Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), publisher.[44]

Major Edward Croft-Murray (1907–1980), antiquarian, expert on British art, and Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum from 1954 to 1973.

John Darbourne (1935–1991), architect.[45]

Michael Derrick (1915–1961), a leading figure in Roman Catholic journalism in mid-20th-century England.

Sir John Whittaker Ellis (1829–1912) is buried in the churchyard and has a plaque in the north chancel. He was Lord Mayor of London from 1881 to 1882 and the first mayor of the Municipal Borough of Richmond (Surrey) from 1890 to 1891.[5]

Elston Grey-Turner (1916–1984), a medical doctor, was secretary of the British Medical Association from 1976 to 1979.

Charles George Harper (1863–1943), author and illustrator, lived in Petersham at "Craigmyle" (The Navigator's House).[46]

Sir Edmund Nuttall, Baronet (1870–1923), a civil engineer, was head of Edmund Nuttall Limited. He is buried along with his wife, Ethel Christine Nuttall (1871–1958).

A pink granite tomb marks the grave of painter and sculptor Glyn Philpot (1884–1937).[47]

Dorothy Grenfell Williams Powell (1934–1994), radio producer and broadcaster, Head of the BBC African Service 1988–94.[48] She is buried with her husband, Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), an architect with Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.[49]

Businessman Anthony Rampton (1915–1993) and his wife Joan, both philanthropists, who lived at Gort Lodge.[50][51]

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett (1857–1929), a doctor and British Army officer, is buried with his wife Helen.[52]

Major General Sir Humphry Thomas Tollemache, 6th Baronet (1897–1990), senior Royal Marines officer, and his wife Nora Priscilla (née Taylor).

The local war memorial, in the form of a stone cross, is in the churchyard and is Grade II listed.[53] The cemetery also contains the graves of four local men who died in the First World War: Sergeant G. Farren, Private M. Farren, Private F. C. Liddle, and Brevet Major the Rt. Hon. Algernon Henry C. Hanbury-Tracy.[54]

Chris Brasher (1928–2003), athlete, sports journalist, co-founder of the London Marathon, and Chairman of the Petersham Trust 1999–2003.

Jane Carolin Fawcett (1921–2016), codebreaker at Bletchley Park and "Protector of Historic Buildings and Landscapes", and her husband Edward "Ted" Fawcett (1920–2013), "Poet, Gardener", and head of public relations at The National Trust.[55][56]

Robin Patrick Langley (1942–2004), musicologist and, for 42 years, Petersham parish organist.[57][58]

New Zealand artist Beth Zanders (1913–2009) and her husband, the New Zealand pianist Douglas Zanders (1918–2012).

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  The interior of the church, showing the Georgian box pews and the unusual gallery organ
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  Memorial to Sir George Cole

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  War memorial
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  A 21st-century plaque commemorates Henry Lidgbird Ball's burial in the family vault of his wife Anne Georgianna Henrietta Johnston
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  Grave of Mary and Agnes Berry
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  Grave of Chris Brasher
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  Jeremiah Bryant funerary monument
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  Gothic Revival headstone of Henry and Charlotte Cain (1871)
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  Grave of publisher Jonathan Cape
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  Grave of Edward Croft-Murray
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  Grave of John Darbourne
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  Grave of Michael Derrick
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  Family tomb of Sir John Whittaker Ellis
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  Memorial to Edward and Jane Fawcett
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  Tomb of Army General Gordon Forbes
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  Grave of Elston Grey-Turner
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  Halhead family tomb
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  Mary Karze "who dyed ye 16th of April 1686"
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  Monument for Sir Edmund Nuttall and his wife Christine
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  Grave of Dorothy Grenfell Williams Powell, radio producer and broadcaster, and her husband Geoffry Powell, architect with Chamberlin, Powell and Bon
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  Tomb of Albert Henry Scott by Sir George Gilbert Scott
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  Sir Arthur Sloggett headstone
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  Grave of Sir Humphry Tollemache and his wife, Nora Priscilla, Lady Tollemache
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  Grave of George Vancouver
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  Grave of artist Beth Zanders and her husband, pianist Douglas Zanders