What is the name of the cemetery where Faraday is buried?

Michael Faraday is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. He was interred in the cemetery’s Dissenters’ section, reflecting his family’s non-Anglican religious background.

Faraday died at Hampton Court on 25 August 1867, aged 75. Although he had been offered burial in Westminster Abbey, he declined the honour. He was instead buried at Highgate Cemetery, a major Victorian cemetery opened in 1839 and known for its distinctive monuments, landscaped grounds, and historic residents.

Faraday’s grave is in the western cemetery, which is separate from the better-known eastern section. Highgate later became famous as the burial place of other notable figures, including philosopher Karl Marx, novelist George Eliot, poet Christina Rossetti, and author Douglas Adams.

A common mix-up is to assume that Faraday was buried in Westminster Abbey because he has a memorial plaque there near Isaac Newton’s tomb. The plaque commemorates him, but his actual grave is at Highgate Cemetery. The cemetery therefore provides the single, specific answer to the question about his burial place.