1821–1882, American genealogist, poet and editor Bryan Donkin, 1768–1855, engineer who developed a paper-making machine and food-canning process Edward John Eliot, 1782–1863, Peninsular War soldier Vincent Figgins, 1766–1844, typefounder Sir Charles Fox, 1810–1874, civil and railway engineer Jenny Hill, 1848–1896, music hall performer Sir Polydore de Keyser, 1832–1898, lawyer and Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of London Sir George Livesey, 1834–1908, engineer, industrialist and philanthropist Cicely Nott, 1832–1900, singer and actress John Proctor, 1836–1914, artist, illustrator and cartoonist Charles Rolls, 1799–1885, engraver Thomas Tilling, 1825–1893, bus tycoon Alfred Vance, 1839–1888, English music hall performer Layout and other structures At 52 acres, Nunhead is the second largest of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Views across London include St Paul's Cathedral. The Victorian part of the cemetery is currently in a poor state of repair, being best described as an elegant wilderness; locals like to call it a nature reserve. Many areas of the cemetery are fairly overgrown with vines, as visible in newer tourist photos. Numerous tombstones lean to the side. Although the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery are doing their best to restore some parts of the cemetery it is badly in need of care and funding. It is about and is a popular place to walk. The lodges and monumental entrance were designed by James Bunstone Bunning. There is an obelisk, the "Scottish Political Martyrs Memorial", the second monument (the other is in Edinburgh) dedicated to the leaders of the Friends of the People Society, popularly called the Scottish Martyrs, including Thomas Muir, Maurice Margarot, and Thomas Fyshe Palmer, who were transported to Australia in 1794. It was erected by Radical MP Joseph Hume in 1837. It is immediately on the right on Dissenters Road, when entering through the North Gate. A memorial commemorates nine Sea Scouts who died in the Leysdown Tragedy off the Isle of Sheppey in 1912, including Percy Baden Powell Huxford aged 12 (named after, but not related to, Lord Baden Powell). The original memorial, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was erected in 1914. Most of this was removed after vandalism, and only the base remains. The present replacement memorial was erected in 1992, on the initiative of the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery. There are a large number of First and Second World War war graves in the cemetery, the greater proportion (592 graves) being Commonwealth service burials from the former war. Most of those are concentrated