Notable people buried in St Sepulchre’s Cemetery
Those with entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (36 to date)
Their names below are linked to information about them on this website, which concentrates on local detail and their families. Nearly all public libraries in England, Scotland, and Wales — and all in Northern Ireland — subscribe to the online version of the ODNB. Just enter your library card number in the third box down on the left of this page to see if you have access.
- Bulkeley BANDINEL (1781–1861), librarian
- Frank Arthur BELLAMY (1863–1936), astronomer and philatelist
See also his Oxfordshire Blue Plaque - Charles William BOASE (1828–1895), historian and antiquary; lecturer and librarian at Exeter College, Oxford
- Edward CAIRD (1835–1908), philosopher and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Alfred Millard William CHRISTOPHER (1820–1913), Church of England clergyman
- Thomas COMBE (1796–1872), printer and patron of the arts, and founder of St Barnabas’s Church in Oxford
See also his Oxfordshire Blue Plaque - William DELAMOTTE (1775–1863), landscape artist
- Albert Venn DICEY (1835–1922), jurist
- Robinson ELLIS (1834–1913), classical scholar, Vice-President of Trinity College, Oxford
- John FARMER (1835–1901), musician, and organist at Balliol College, Oxford
- Thomas Hill GREEN (1836–1882), philosopher, Fellow and Senior Dean at Balliol College, Oxford
- John GRIFFITHS (1806–1885), Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and Keeper of the University Archives
- Alfred HACKMAN (1811–1874), Sub-Librarian at the Bodleian, Precentor of Christ Church, Vicar of St Paul’s Church
- Marian Rebecca HUGHES (1817–1912), Anglican nun
- Manuel John JOHNSON (1805–1859), Astronomer
- Benjamin JOWETT (1817–1893), Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Regius Professor of Greek
- Lorenzo LUCENA (1807–1881), Roman Catholic and Church of England priest, translator, and Hispanic scholar
- Robert MAIN (1808–1878), Radcliffe Observer
- Frederick METCALFE (1815–1885), Church of England clergyman and Scandinavian scholar
- William Richard MORFILL (1834–1909), Slavonic languages scholar
See also his Oxfordshire Blue Plaque - James Bowling MOZLEY (1813–1878), theologian and journalist, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
- James Adey OGLE (1792–1857), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine
- George Druce Wynne OMMANNEY (1819–1902), clergyman and theologian
- John Henry PARKER, C.B. (1806–1884), bookshop owner, publisher, and archaeologist
- Henry Francis PELHAM (1846–1907), historian and President of Trinity College, Oxford
- George Uglow POPE (1820–1908), Christian missionary who translated many Tamil texts into English
- Stephen REAY [pseud. Pileus Quadratus] (1782–1861), orientalist
- William RIVIERE (1806–1876), drawing master
- James Edwin Thorold ROGERS (1823–1890), political economist and politician
- George Augustus ROWELL (1804–1892), meteorologist
- Henry John Stephen SMITH (1826–1883), mathematician, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
including two paragraphs at the end on his sister, who is also in the ODNB:
Eleanor Elizabeth SMITH (1822–1896), promoter of health and education - Edward James STONE (1831–1897), Radcliffe Observer from 1879 to 1897
- Mrs Charlotte Maria TOYNBEE, née ATWOOD (1841–1931), college administrator and local government official
- Guðbrandur VIGFÚSSON (1827–1889), scholar of Icelandic literature, Reader in Icelandic at Oxford
- John Obadiah WESTWOOD (1805–1893), entomologist and palaeographer, Hope Professor of Zoology
A man with an entry in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography
- Henry Phibbs FRY (1807–1874), clergyman who served in Tasmania
A famous American woman
- Miss Meta Claudia BREVOORT (1825–1876), early female mountaineer
Well known in Oxford:
- Henry BOSWELL (1835–1897), owner of Boswell's store and bryologist
- Edward G. BRUTON (1826–1899), architect
- John Caldicott CAVELL (1813–1887), joint founder of Oxford’s leading department store Elliston & Cavell
- Rose Potter CLARRIBUTT (c.1813–1878), matron of the Radcliffe Infirmary
- John Marriott DAVENPORT (1846–1915), Clerk of the Peace for the County of Oxford
- Harry George Walter DRINKWATER (1841–1895), architect
- John GEE (1842–1898), founder of Gee’s Nursery on the Banbury Road
- George Parsons HESTER (1798–1876), Town Clerk of Oxford responsible for the building of New Osney
- Herbert HURST (1833–1913), Antiquarian
- Robert HILLS (1821–1882), co-founder of Hills & Saunders, one of the UK’s leading Victorian photographic firms
- William LUCY (1837/8–1873), iron founder after whom the Eagle Ironworks were named
- Mrs Frances Sarah LUDLOW, Mrs BRUCKER, Pre-Raphaelite model (1829–1879)
- Joseph THORNTON (1809–1891), founder of Thornton’s bookshop