A carefully detailed Greek Revival mausoleum with a flight of steps leading up to an entrance flanked by fluted Doric columns.
John Griffith
Greek Revival
Grade II (England and Wales)
1844
This mausoleum was built following the death of Captain George Robertson Aikman (1760-1844) of Ross and Broomelton, Lanarkshire. Also buried here are George’s two sons, William (1822-1903) and Frederick (1828-1888) who continued the family tradition by serving in the army. William was a religious writer and poet whose works include a collection of essays published under the pseudonym 'A Soldier of the Cross', while Frederick won the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny. In 1924, at the age of sixty four, Colonel Thomas S T H R Aikman (1860-1948), the grandson of George, captained the winning British Curling team at the Olympic Games in Chamonix. There are fifteen interments in the mausoleum, the last in 1949.
Good, but plants were beginning to grow on the roof (2002).
BoE: London 3 (1991 468; General Cemetery Company Registers; F Boase, Modern English Biographgy (1892, 2nd ed. 1965) IV, c47; Who Was Who 1941-1950; Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh, Edith Humphris, The VC and DSO: A Complete Record (1924); Ernest Gaskell, Lancashire Leaders, Social and Political (1911); Scottish Biographies 1938 (1938); Times, 8 October, 1888, 1 & 6.
Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery website
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Kensal Green Cemetery
Harrow Road
London
W10 4RA
England