A substantial Classical monument with niches framed by aedicules to either end. Originally the niches must have contained urns or statues for the plinths are still there.
Not known
Neo-Classical
Grade II (England and Wales)
1833
Built following the death of Margaret Gregory who died in 1832 and was the first person to be buried in the cemetery. Her uncle, John Thompson (1756-1843) is also interred here, as is her husband, Barnard Gregory (1796-1852) the owner and editor of the The Satirist, or Censor of the Times with which Sophia Parlby was involved (see History of the Perry/O’Brien Mausoleum). It was Gregory’s practice to extort money from people in return for refraining to publish damaging articles about them. So unpopular did he become that, though a competent actor, he was howled down if he appeared on stage. He was eventually condemned for libel on Duke Charles of Brunswick.
Poor (2002)
J S Curl, The Victorian Celebration of Death (2000), 82, 182, 328;
Friends of Kensal Green, Paths of Glory, 49.
Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery website
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Kensal Green Cemetery
Harrow Road
London
W10 4RA
England