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Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in London with the UK's finest collection of Victorian funerary architecture .

In the Western Cemetery of particular interest are the Lebanon Circle Vaults, the Egyptian Avenue, the Terrace Catacombs and the Julius Beer Mausoleum; and in the East Cemetery the massive, much visited bust of Karl Marx.

There are many famous people buried at Highgate including 18 Royal Academicians, 6 Lord Mayors of London, 48 Fellows of the Royal Society, the founders of London businesses including Maples, Foyles, Negretti-Zambra, John Lobb, P&O, and Quaritch, and familiar names such as Faraday, Karl Marx, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Carl Rosa and Sir Ralph Richardson.

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