St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham
# St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham

St. Michael's Churchyard is the church and graveyard located in Mickleham, Surrey, England, belonging to the Church of England parish of Mickleham.

## History

The church building dates back to the Norman period from 950 to 1180, but some changes to the building were made in 1823, 1842, 1872 and 1891.

## Notable burials

There are 867 recorded burials, but more are accounted for since 1891, not including those from 950 to 1891. The graveyard is the final resting place of

* Philippa Walton (1674/5–1749), businesswoman and gunpowder factory owner
* Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor
* Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
* Maria Kinnaird (1810–1891), widow of Thomas Drummond.
* Trevor Lawrence (1831–1913), had famous orchid houses at Burford Lodge in the parish. He was the grandfather of Cyril Hare's wife.
* Richard Bedford Bennett (1870–1947), Prime Minister of Canada and a member of the House of Lords. Bennett's grave is located steps from the front of the church doors and has a marker from the Government of Canada signifying the important figure buried there.
* John Norton-Griffiths (1871–1930), "Empire Jack", the driving force behind the Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in WW1, was buried here on 18 October 1930.
* James Jeans (1877–1946), physicist, astronomer, mathematician
* Graham Gilmour (1885–1912), pioneer aviator. Killed in a plane crash in Richmond Park.
* Cyril Hare (1900–1958), detective story writer, who was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at Westhumble in the parish in 1958.
* Janet Gladys Aitken (1908–1988), socialite
* John Junor (1919–1997), controversial editor of the Sunday Express and The Mail on Sunday.
