Tuesday 11 August 2009
More Kensal Green History: Charles Kuhn Prioleau
The Guardian reports HERE that another famous grave, of Charles Kuhn Prioleau, has been uncovered in Kensal Green Cemetery. It turns out it is the forgotten resting place of an American businessman who financed blockade busting and piracy against the Union during the American Civil War. They also mention some of the other famous burials like the Brunels and Lady Byron. However, they overlook the irony of the same graveyard being shared with Mary Seacole and (before his exhumation in the 1960s) Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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For the record, Mary Seacole is buried in St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, adjacent to the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green. (Ironic? Mary Seacole was of mixed race, described herself as a Creole, grew up in Jamaica, made her name in the Crimean War, was never enslaved and does not feature in the American Civil War.) Marcus Garvey, similarly, rested at St. Mary's RC Cemetery. All Souls, Kensal Green is the resting place of several wealthy slave owners and as many prominent abolitionists, and important figures from George Polgreen Bridgetower to Kelso Cochrane, just not Mary Seacole.
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