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    The Cremation Society of Great Britain (now known as The Cremation Society) was founded in 1874 to promote the use of cremation as an alternative means...
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    Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative...
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    com/country-rankings/cremation-rate-by-country [bare URL] "Progress of Cremation in The British Islands 1885-2022". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. 2023-07-25...
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    November 2010. "History of Modern Cremation in Great Britain from 1874: The First Hundred Years". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Archived from the...
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    Golders Green Crematorium (category Use British English from January 2022)
    of cremation in Great Britain was not confirmed until 1885. The first crematorium was built in Woking and it was successful. At that time cremation was...
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  • Richard Grey, 6th Earl Grey (category Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999)
    was chairman of the London Cremation Company, based in Golders Green, and served as president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain from 1992 until...
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    Isaac Gulliver (category Use British English from December 2020)
    July 2021. "History of Modern Cremation in Great Britain from 1874: The First Hundred Years". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. 1974. Archived from...
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    Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet (category Use British English from August 2014)
    Cremation Society of Great Britain, of which he was the first president; he also did much toward the removal of the legal restrictions on cremation....
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    Funeral (redirect from In lieu of flowers)
    newly founded Cremation Society of Great Britain, led to the Cremation Act 1902. The Act imposed procedural requirements before a cremation could occur...
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  • Jeanette Pickersgill (category Cremation in the United Kingdom)
    three cremations had taken place out of 597,357 deaths in the UK. At that time cremation was championed by the Cremation Society of Great Britain. By 1901...
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    precedent together with the activities of the newly founded Cremation Society of Great Britain led to the Cremation Act 1902.[citation needed] The Act deemed...
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  • Richard Dimbleby (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Internet. The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Retrieved 2 December 2010. [1] BBC Celebration of a Broadcaster, 1986 "Royal Mail celebrates 'Great Britons'...
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    Bobbing, Kent (category Borough of Swale)
    before the end of the year. In 2003, the Cremation Society of Great Britain opened the "Garden of England Crematorium" on the outskirts of the village....
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    Crematorium (category Cremation)
    a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built...
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    elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In January, 1874 he was a founder member of the Cremation Society of Great Britain, set up to campaign...
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    gov.hk. Retrieved 25 March 2011. "Singapore Cremation Statistics 2018". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Retrieved 21 December 2020. "Crypt Burial...
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    Brookwood Cemetery (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854)
    LNC sold an isolated piece of its land at Brookwood, close to St John's village, to the Cremation Society of Great Britain, on which they built Woking...
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    William Price (physician) (category Cremation in the United Kingdom)
    activities of the recently founded Cremation Society of Great Britain, led to the Cremation Act 1902. In 1885 the first official cremation of the remains of Jeanette...
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  • Cremation in Japan was originally practiced by monks seeking to emulate the cremation of the Buddha. Virtually all deceased are now cremated in Japan –...
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    much of it at very low prices. In 1878 the Cremation Society of Great Britain bought an isolated piece of the LNC's Brookwood land and built Woking Crematorium...
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    Henry Irving (category Use British English from October 2013)
    16 October 1905, p. 9 "Woking Crematorium". Internet. The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 28...
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    former Lord Mayor of Birmingham. "Cremation Society of G.B. – History of the Society". Cremation Society of Great Britain. 1 January 1999. Archived from...
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    Retrieved January 5, 2022. "Singapore Cremation Statistics 2018". cremation.org.uk. The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Archived from the original on January...
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    The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language...
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  • [London, Longmans]. p. 37. "Woking Crematorium". Internet. The Cremation Society of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 28...
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    Bedford served as president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain from 1921 to his death in 1940. He had the original cremator from Woking Crematorium...
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  • Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet (category Use British English from February 2017)
    and political subjects. He served as president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain, as did his son and successor to the baronetcy. Cameron lived at...
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    bellringing society in Britain and the second oldest at any church in the world with a continuous ringing history. In 2009 the old ring of bells was replaced...
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    Reginald Shirley Brooks (category Use British English from September 2016)
    "obituary". At the time, cremation was still unlawful. Brooks' father had been a member of the Cremation Society of Great Britain, which was campaigning...
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    communities of subsistence agriculturalists of western Europe". There is no clear consensus on the date for the beginning of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and...
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