• The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London W10 4RA •
BRUNEL200
at Kensal Green Cemetery
The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery will be offering a special tour on Sunday, 9 April 2006, to commemorate
the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), and to
remember the many other distinguished engineers, architects and entrepreneurs buried at this remarkable 19th
century necropolis.
The Brunel family monument at Kensal Green was designed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), a
polymath regarded by many as an even more extraordinary engineer than his famous son. Together, the Brunels
completed the world’s first underwater tunnel, crossing the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping. Isambard
Kingdom Brunel went on to build 25 railways, 125 railway bridges, eight seaside piers and five suspension
bridges. As Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, his work included two viaducts, Maidenhead Bridge,
Box Tunnel and the very stations at either end of the route – London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads. Yet
he is perhaps best remembered for his work on The Great Western (the first transatlantic steamship), The Great
Britain (the first great ocean liner) and The Great Eastern (then much the largest ship the world had ever seen).
The Brunel 200 Tour led by The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery will commence at 14:00 on Sunday, 9 April
2006, on the porch of the Anglican Chapel at the centre of the cemetery. A donation of £5 per head will go
toward the work of the Friends in preserving, studying and promoting the historic monuments and notable
personalities associated with the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green. Nearest tube stations: Kensal
Green and Ladbroke Grove; for map, directions and further 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.