Abney Park Cemetery opened in 1840 and contains the graves of many notable people. It was named after Abney House, the estate of Sir Thomas Abney from 1700-1843. The cemetery contains the graves of England's first female aeronaut Margaret Graham, nurse Betsi Cadwaladr who worked in the Crimean War, animal exhibitor Frank Bostock known as "The Animal King", police officer Frederick Tyler who was killed in the Tottenham Outrage, prolific hangman William Ong Calcraft, and Salvation Army founder William Booth. The cemetery was designed with the help of hymn writer Isaac Watts who was a guest at Abney House for 36 years.

1. The History of Abney Park
Cemetery
Photo by Linn Wiberg
John Baldock
Abney Park Trust
Stoke Newington History Talks No. 4
September 4, 2017
StokeNewingtonHistory.com

2. Abney Park est 1840

5. Abney House 1700-1843

6. Abney House 1700-1843
Sir Thomas Abney 1640-1722
Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington
Lord Mayor of London
Co-founder of the Bank of England

7. Abney House 1700-1843

8. Abney Park Cemetery opened in 1840

9. Abney Park Cemetery opened in 1840

16. Margaret Graham
Betsi Cadwaladr
William Ong Calcraft
William Booth
Frank Bostock
PC Frederick Tyler

17. Isaac Watts 1674-1748
Isaac Watts was an English
Christian minister, hymn writer,
theologian, and logician. He was a
prolific and popular hymn writer
and is credited with some 750
hymns.
He is recognised as the "Father of
English Hymnody”.
He was a guest at Abney House
for 36 years and helped design
Abney Park with Lady Mary
Abney.

18. Dr Watts’ Mound

19. Margaret Graham 1796 - 1864
‘England's first female aeronaut'
English aeronaut George Graham
and his wife, Margaret, made
numerous balloon ascents in
Britain between the 1820s and the
1850s.
Many of these ended in disaster,
and the Grahams became as
famous for their good fortune in
surviving their adventures as for
their aeronautical skills.

20. Margaret Graham 1796 - 1864
‘England's first female aeronaut'
By the 1840s ascents by George
Graham had become rare, but
Margaret continued with her
aeronautical career, proclaiming
herself 'The Only English Female
aeronaut'.
Despite many near fatal
ballooning accidents, she survived
to die in her bed.

21. Margaret Graham 1796 - 1864
‘England’s first female aeronaut'

22. Betsi Cadwaladr 1789-1860
Betsi worked alongside Florence
Nightingale at the Crimean War,
she is buried in a paupers grave.

23. Frank Bostock 1866-1912
Known as 'The Animal King',
Frank Bostock travelled the world
with his menagerie of animals, lion
taming was a part of his show and
he kept his giraffes on Yoakley
Road.

24. Frank Bostock 1866-1912

25. PC Frederick Tyler 1878-1909
Shot and killed whilst on duty
chasing two Latvian Anarchists
who had tried to rob a wage van -
later known as the Tottenham
Outrage.

26. PC Frederick Tyler 1878-1909

27. PC Frederick Tyler - 1878 -
1909

28. William Ong Calcraft 1800-1879
A 19th Century hangman, one of
Britain's most prolific

29. William Ong Calcraft 1800-1879
• A 19th Century hangman, one
of Britain's most prolific

30. William Booth 1829-1912
William Booth was a British
Methodist preacher who founded
The Salvation Army and became
its first General.
On 27 August 1912 Booth's funeral
service was held at London’s
Olympia where 40,000 people
attended, including Queen Mary.

31. William Booth 1829-1912

35. “England above all other lands, is celebrated for
the respect which she pays to her distinguished
dead. The country churches and church-yards
of England are the most beautiful in the world,
and the influence of such places is chastening
to the soul, in this harsh world of ours.”
London by Day and Night, by David W.Bartlett, 1852
Photo by Linn Wiberg