[From Wikipedia:]
Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground in central London, in the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London. (...) It was first in devoted use as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854, in which period approximately 123,000 interments were estimated to have taken place. Over 2,000 monuments remain, for the most part in concentrated blocks. It was a prototype of land-use protected, nondenominational grounds, and was particularly favoured by nonconformists who passed their final years in the region. It contains the graves of many notable people, including John Bunyan (died 1688), author of The Pilgrim's Progress; Daniel Defoe (died 1731), author of Robinson Crusoe; William Blake (died 1827), artist, poet, and mystic; Susanna Wesley (died 1742), known as the "Mother of Methodism" through her education of sons John and Charles; Thomas Bayes (died 1761), statistician and philosopher; and Isaac Watts (died 1748), the "Father of English Hymnody"
As I explain in this short movie, John Benjamin Tolkien I (1752, Gdansk - 1819, London), our Professor's great-great-grandfather is buried in the same part of the cemetery, where we can find other members of Lady of Huntingdon Connexion (Calvinistic Methodists) and the members of the London Missionary Society, The Bible Society etc. Close to the Tolkiens' grave you can find the burial place of Ann Erskine, who was Lady of Huntingdon successor.
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| Bunhill Fields Burying Ground (Faden's 1819 revision of Horwood) |
British History Online has good texts about this form of Christianity in London. See especially here (their history) and here (their articles of faith).
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| John Tallis's Georgian London (see the Tolkiens' White Lion St) |
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