Willesden Jewish Cemetery

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Willesden Jewish Cemetery in Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, London, NW10, UK opened in 1873. More properly, it is the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery. Some of the notable persons interred here include:

Barney Barnato (1852-1897), financier
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Dudley Joel (1904-1941), businessman, politician, WW II naval officer
Jim Joel (1895-1992), businessman, racehorse owner
Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), Governor of the Bank of England
Anthony Nathan de Rothschild (1810-1876)
Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)
Charlotte von Rothschild (1819-1884)
Hannah Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890)
James A. de Rothschild (1878-1957)
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917)
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937)
Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879)
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942)
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915), banker, politician
Marcus Samuel (1853-1927), 1st Viscount Bearsted, banker and a founder of Shell Oil Co.
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), painter
Sir Julius Vogel (1835-1899), Prime Minister of New Zealand
Giulia Warwick (1857 - 1904), opera singer

Cecil Louis Fox (1886-1972) is also interred in Willesden Cemetery at the main entrance, alongside his wife Evelina Rose Goodman (Tuck) (1885-1965). Fox was one of the leading property owners in England in the 1950s-70s. Evelina Tuck's uncle was Sir Adolph Tuck, of the Raphael Tuck Greeting Card Co., and her cousin, Muriel Tuck (1892-1988), married Leonard Montefiore (1889-1961) whose Grandfather was Dr. Nathanial Mayer Montefiore de Rothschild (1819-1883).