Balls Pond Road Cemetery

Balls Pond Road Cemetery, also known as Jewish (West London Reform) Cemetery,[1] Kingsbury Road Cemetery, Balls Pond Burial Ground[2] and The Jewish Burial Ground,[3] is a Jewish cemetery on Kingsbury Road, Dalston, London N1. It was founded in 1843 and is owned by West London Synagogue.[1] The last burial was in 1951.[3] Prominent early members of the West London Synagogue, such as the de Stern, Goldsmid and Mocatta families, are buried in this cemetery.[4] Other notable burials include the ashes of Amy Levy, the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and the first Jewish woman to be cremated in England.

Balls Pond Road Cemetery (Kingsbury Road Cemetery)
Details
Established1843
Closed1951
Location
Kingsbury Road, Dalston (London Borough of Islington)
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°32′52″N 0°04′46″W
TypeJewish
Owned byWest London Synagogue
Size0.5 acres
No. of graves900
Find a GraveKingsbury Road Cemetery

Notable burials
Amy Levy
Reverend David Woolf Marks

People buried at the cemetery include:

  • Phinehas Abraham (c.1812–1887), a West Indian merchant born in Jamaica and one of its largest landed proprietors. He was senior justice of the peace for the parish of Trelawny in Jamaica and an agent of Lloyd's of London. He was also one of the earliest members of West London Synagogue.[5][6]
  • Frederick David Goldsmid (1812–1866), son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and his wife Isabel,[7] was Member of Parliament (MP) for Honiton from 1865 to 1866. He is buried with his wife Caroline (1814–1885), daughter of Phillip Moses Samuel and Julia Goldsmid.[7]
  • Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778–1859), financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom[1]
  • Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet (1838–1896), lawyer, businessman, Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) MP, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and art collector[1]
  • Amy Levy (1861–1889), essayist, poet, and novelist, who was the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and the first Jewish woman to be cremated in England; her ashes were interred at this cemetery[8]
  • Joseph Moses Levy (1812–1888), newspaper editor and publisher, who was chief proprietor of The Sunday Times and also managed The Daily Telegraph[1]
  • Reverend David Woolf Marks (1811–1909), Hebrew scholar and minister, who was the first religious leader of the West London Synagogue[9]
  • David Mocatta (1806–1882), architect of railway stations and synagogues, and a founder of the West London Synagogue[1]
  • Annette Salaman (1827–1879), writer, who compiled a collection of comforting scriptural texts, which were published in 1873 as an illustrated guide to the Bible entitled Footsteps on the Way of Life. She was also the author of How to Earn a Good Name (1876) and Aunt Annette's Stories to Ada (1876), a series of tales for children.[10]
  • James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), mathematician and Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Sylvester made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the second half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics.[11][12]

See also

References
  1. Meller, Hugh; Parsons, Brian (2008). London Cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer. The History Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-7509-4622-3.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Martin-Jones, Tony (25 November 2015). "Balls Pond Burial Ground". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. "The Jewish Burial Ground". London Gardens Online. London Parks and Gardens Trust. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  4. "The Jewish Burial Ground, Islington". Parks & Gardens. Hestercombe Gardens Trust. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. Singer, Isidore; and others, eds. (1901–1906). "Abraham, Phineas". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  6. Martin-Jones, Tony (24 June 2009). "Phineas Abraham". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  7. Martin-Jones, Tony (24 June 2009). "Frederick David GOLDSMID and Caroline SAMUEL". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  8. Medd, Jodie, ed. (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-107-05400-4.
  9. "MARKS Rev. Prof David Woolf [David b Benjamin Ze'ev] 1811–1909". Cemetery Scribes. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  10. "SALAMAN Annette Amelia". Cemetery Scribes. 24 June 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  11. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  12. "James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)". UCL Department of Economics. University College London. Retrieved 3 June 2020.


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