St Peter's Church, Petersham

Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), a seventeenth-century English playwright, and his wife, Joan Carlile (c.1606–1679), an English portrait painter, are buried together in the churchyard but the location of their grave is not known. They had lived at Petersham Lodge

Sir George Cole (d. 1624)[11] and his family are commemorated in the monument in the chancel erected in 1624. He was called to the bar in 1597 and was a member of the Middle Temple.[11] He married his wife Frances at St. Peter’s in 1585. The family vault is under the chancel.[6]

The oldest headstone in the churchyard is that of Mary Karze (d. 1686).[12][6] It is Grade II-listed.[13]

Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale (1626–1698), who became Countess of Dysart on the death of her father, William Murray, the owner of Ham House, married the Duke of Lauderdale at Petersham in 1672. She is buried with other Dysart family members in a vault under the chancel.[6]

Mary Burdekin (d. 1772), believed to be the first baker of Maids of Honour pastries, is buried in the churchyard.[6]

William Duckett MP (1685–1749), British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1741.[14]

Sir Thomas Jenner (1637–1707), barrister, Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of the Common Pleas, is buried in the churchyard. There is also a plaque to him on the chancel wall.[6]

Nicholas Sprimont (1716–1771), silversmith who ran the Chelsea porcelain factory, is buried in the churchyard.[15]

The explorer Captain George Vancouver (1757–1798) wrote A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean, And Round The World[16] when staying in Petersham.[6] There is a memorial tablet to him in the church and he is buried in the churchyard; his grave is Grade II listed.[17][18]

Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756–1818), Royal Navy officer, best known for discovering and exploring Lord Howe Island, is buried in the family vault of his wife Anne Georgianna Henrietta Johnston.[19] A commemorative plaque marking Ball was added to the Johnston tomb on 20 October 2013 at a service attended by the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.[20]

Mary Berry (1763–1852), author and editor, and her sister Agnes Berry (1764–1852), are buried in the churchyard.[15][6]

Major General Sir Jeremiah Bryant (1783–1845) was a British Army officer in the Bengal Army.[18]

Theodora Jane Cowper (d. 1824), cousin of the poet William Cowper, is buried in the churchyard.[6]

Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764–1839), is buried in a Grade II-listed tomb in the churchyard.[21][22]

Gordon Forbes (1738–1828), a senior officer in the British Army.[23]

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830), Orientalist and philologist, is buried in the family tomb in the churchyard. The family monument was erected by his half-brother William Halhed.[21][24]

Harriet Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian (d. 1833), daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.[12]

Albert Henry Scott (1844–1865), photographer and third son of the architect George Gilbert Scott, is buried in the churchyard; his tomb is Grade II listed.[25][26]

Lord Charles Spencer (1740–1820) was a British courtier and politician from the Spencer family. He died in Petersham while visiting his son.[27]

Charles Stuart (1753–1801), a British nobleman and soldier, who captured Minorca in 1798.[28][29]

Robert Beloe (1905–1984), chief education officer for Surrey, who produced the Beloe Report.[30]

Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), publisher.[31]

John Darbourne (1935–1991), architect, is buried in the churchyard.[32]

Michael Derrick (1915–1961), was a leading figure in Roman Catholic journalism in mid-20th-century England.

Sir John Whittaker Ellis (1829–1912) is buried in the churchyard and has a plaque in the north chancel. He was Lord Mayor of London from 1881 to 1882 and the first mayor of the Municipal Borough of Richmond (Surrey) from 1890 to 1891.[6]

Elston Grey-Turner (1916–1984), a British doctor, was secretary of the British Medical Association from 1976 to 1979.

Sir Edmund Nuttall, Baronet (1870–1923) was a British civil engineer, head of Edmund Nuttall Limited.

A pink granite tomb marks the grave of painter and sculptor Glyn Philpot (1884–1937).[33]

Dorothy Grenfell Williams Powell (1934–1994), radio producer and broadcaster, Head of the BBC African Service 1988–94.[34] Also her husband Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), architect with Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.[35]

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett (1857–1929), doctor and British Army officer.

Major General Sir Humphry Thomas Tollemache, 6th Baronet (1897–1990), senior Royal Marines officer, and his wife Nora Priscilla (née Taylor) are buried in the churchyard.

Also in the churchyard is the local war memorial, in the form of a stone cross. In February 2017 it was also given Grade II listed status.[36] The cemetery also contains the graves of four war dead.[37]

There is also a memorial inside the church to the Petersham Boy Scouts who died in the First World War, moved from All Saints Church in 2007.[38]

Chris Brasher (1928–2003), athlete, sports journalist, co-founder of the London Marathon and Chairman of the Petersham Trust 1999–2003.

Jane Carolin Fawcett (1921–2016), a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park and "Protector of Historic Buildings and Landscapes"; also her husband Edward Ted Fawcett (1920–2013), "Poet, Gardener".[39][40]

Robin Patrick Langley (1942–2004), musicologist and for 42 years Petersham parish organist.[41][42]

Beth Zanders (1913–2009), a New Zealand artist, and her husband, the New Zealand pianist Douglas Zanders (1918–2012).