Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking. It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 and 2001. The cemetery was opened in 1889 and now contains more than 15,000 burials. Along with the other Oxford public cemeteries it was expected to be full before 2021. Sections The cemetery has a number of sections for individual religions or ethnicities, including Baháʼí, Muslim, Jewish (first section dedicated 1894; extension 2000), Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Polish Roman Catholic and other Roman Catholic (the section in which the Tolkiens are buried) and Quakers. There is an area for the burial of cremated remains, one for green burials and another for the burial of stillborns and infants. Notable internments Many notable people are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, including many former academics of the University of Oxford. Charles Umpherston Aitchison (1832–1896), Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab Michael Argyle (1925–2002), social psychologist, and his wife Sonia Sir Roger Bannister (1929–2018), middle-distance runner and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile Sir Ernest Bennett (1865–1947), Oxford fellow, politician, explorer and writer Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), Latvian-born philosopher, and his wife Aline Benjamin Henry Blackwell (1849–1924), bookseller E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist Włodzimierz Brus (1921–2007), economist, with his wife Lieutenant-Colonel Helena Wolińska-Brus (1919–2008), military prosecutor at show trials in Stalinist Poland in the 1950s John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer and writer Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970), Czech Egyptologist Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) and Sarah Junner (1861–1959), with inscriptions to the memory of their sons Frank, Will and T. E. Lawrence Robert Bellamy Clifton (1836–1921), physicist L. Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), philosopher Frank Cooper (1844–1927) and his wife Sarah Cooper (1848–1932), marmalade manufacturers T. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and Oxford Diocesan Surveyor John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer Edward Gordon Duff (1861–1924), bibliographer Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher Elizabeth Edmondson (1948–2016), author Bill Ferrar (1893–1990), mathematician Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), promoter of women's higher education H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher and professor of jurisprudence Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), professor of international law Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of Middle Eastern history Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet