Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953), anthropologist Adam Koc (1891–1969), politician, colonel and journalist of the Second Polish Republic Peter Laslett (1915–2001), social historian James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian and promoter of women's higher education Paul Maas (1880–1964), Classical and Byzantine scholar Michael Francis Madelin (1931–2007), mycologist James McCann (1897–1983), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Sir Henry Christopher Mance (1840–1926), electrical engineer, developer of the heliograph Bruce Mitchell (1920–2010), Australian scholar of Old English James Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and professor of Russian and Balkan history Daphne Park (1921–2010), spy Professor David Patterson (1922–2005), Hebraist William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist Sir William Schlich (1840–1925), forester James Allen Shuffrey(1858–1939), Victorian and Edwardian watercolour artist Franz Baermann Steiner (1909–1952), ethnologist John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong P. F. Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, with his wife Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003) Dino Toso (1969–2008), automotive engineer Brian Tovey (1926–2015), head of GCHQ Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934), first Roman Catholic fellow of Balliol College in modern times Mike Woodin (1965–2004), Green Party politician E. M. Wright (1906–2005), mathematician War graves The cemetery includes the war graves of 44 Commonwealth service personnel: 21 from World War I and 23 from World War II. See also Holywell Cemetery Osney Cemetery St Sepulchre's Cemetery References External links 1889 establishments in England Buildings and structures completed in 1889 Cemeteries in Oxford Christianity in Oxford Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in England J. R. R. Tolkien