Jeanette Pickersgill

She was the first person to be legally cremated in the United Kingdom, at Woking Crematorium in Surrey.

She married the artist Henry Hall Pickersgill on 20 July 1837 at St Anne's, Soho.

The 1881 Census lists her as an annuitant living at 59 Dorset Square in Regent's Park in London.

[4] On her death The Times described Pickersgill as "a well-known figure in literary and scientific circles".

The great concern at the time was that the person may not be actually dead, and the thought of being burned alive was too shocking for the Victorians to contemplate.

The cremator at Woking Crematorium in the 1870s, before the chapel and buildings were constructed