English' Cemetery, Florence The land for this cemetery in Piazzale Donatello in Florence was bought by the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church from the Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany in 1827 and was in use for fifty years, until 1877, when the medieval wall had been torn down and it became within the city limits. The majority of the burials, beneath its tall cypresses on a small hill, are English, but also Swiss, Russian, American and many other nationalities. The tomb stones are in many scripts and languages. The most famous burials are those of English Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), in a tomb by Lord Leighton (1830-1898), Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), Fanny Trollope (1780-1863) and Theodosia Trollope, Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Isa Blagden, Southwood Smith, and American Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Richard Hildreth (1807-1865), Hiram Powers (1805-1873), Joel Hart, these last two sculptors, and Nadezhda De Santis who came to Florence at 14, a black Nubian slave brought by Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) and Ippolito Rosellini(1800-1843)'s 1828 expedition to Egypt and Nubia, funded by the Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany, she being baptized with the name meaning 'Hope' by her Russian family. William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) sculpted the tomb of his wife Fanny buried here, and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope that of his daughter. Arnold Boecklin (1827-1901), the Swiss painter, buried his baby daughter Maria here, inspiring his several canvases of 'The Island of the Dead'. Mary Somerville, who taught Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, mathematics, buried her husband William here, Ada Lovelace then working with Charles Babbage to invent the computing machine using Jacquard loom cards. A complete catalogue of the burials is online at http://www.florin.ms/cemetery1.html, etc. Visiting hours are 9:00-12:00 Monday mornings, 3:00-6:00 summers, 2:00-5:00 winters, Tuesday through Friday afternoons. The Gatehouse has a library with books by and about the persons buried here. Julia Bolton Holloway, Curator, English Cemetery Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was the most respected poetess of the Victorian era. ... Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (December 31, 1830 - January 25, 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. ... Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864), English writer, eldest son of Walter Landor and his wife Elizabeth Savage, was born at Warwick. ... Frances Trollope (1780–1863) was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer who wrote under the name Fanny Trollope. ... Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861) was an English poet, and the brother of Anne Jemima Clough. ... Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 - May 10, 1860) was a reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, and a Transcendentalist. ... Richard Hildreth (June 28, 1807 - July 11, 1865), United States journalist and author, was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, the son of Hosea Hildreth (1782-1835), a teacher of mathematics and later a Congregational minister. ... Hiram Powers, U.S. neoclassical sculptor. ... Jean-François Champollion For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). ... Ippolito Rosellini (1800-1843), Italian Egyptologist, was born at Pisa. ... William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait William Holman Hunt (April 2, 1827 - September 7, 1910) was a British painter. ... Categories: Artist stubs | 1827 births | 1901 deaths | German painters | Swiss painters | Natives of Basel ... Mary Somerville Mary Somerville (December 26, 1780 – November 28, 1872) was a British scientific writer. ... Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbages early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. ... Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. ...