Karl Marx's Grave

Highgate Cemetery

Swain's Lane, North London

The celebrated monument surmounted by Marx's head dates only from the mid-1950s, when his grave was moved from a more obscure spot in the cemetery.

Other Views of the Cemetery

Entrance to the Western Cemetery

George Eliot's grave

A Victorian View

Casket for H. Spencer's ashes, Eastern Cemetery

Frank Matcham's grave in the Eastern Cemetery

A path in the Eastern Cemetery

A woodland corner of the Eastern Cemetery

A monument in the Eastern Cemetery

Close-up of the statue

Photograph and text by Jacqueline Banerjee

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Sources

"The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon." The Highgate Cemetery website. Viewed 3 April 2008.

Friends of Highgate Cemetery. "Notes on Some of the Many Eminent People Buried in the Eastern Cemetery, Highgate." Available at the Cemetery Office.

Friends of Highgate Cemetery. "Notes on Some of the Many Eminent People Buried in the Western Cemetery, Highgate." Available at the Cemetery Office.

Pearson, Lynn F. Discovering Famous Graves. Princes Risborough, Bucks: Shire, 1998.

Weinreb, Ben and Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, rev. ed. 1992.

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Last modified 3 April 2008