Famous Economists' Grave Sites

Famous Economists' Grave Sites

Maintained By
MALCOLM RUTHERFORD

Charles Babbage (December 28, 1791 - October 18, 1871)

Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

Jeremy Bentham (February 15, 1748 - June 6, 1832)

Lobby of University College, London, England.
(The Bentham Project)

Eugen Bohm Bawerk (February 12, 1851 - August 27, 1914)

Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria.

Jean Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 - September 6, 1683)

St. Eustache Church, Paris, France.
(www.findagrave.com)

Antoine Augustin Cournot (August 28, 1801 - March 31, 1877)

Montparnesse Cemetery, Paris, France.

Richard T. Ely (April 13, 1854 - October 4, 1943)

Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Adam Ferguson (June 20, 1723 - February 22, 1816)

St. Andrews Cathedral, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Irving Fisher (1867 - 1947)

Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Charles Fourier (April 7, 1772 - October 10, 1837)

Montmartre Cemetery, Paris, France.

Henry George (1839 - 1897)

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
(www.findagrave.com)

William Godwin (March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836)

Saint Pancras, London, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1757 - July 12, 1804)

Trinity Churchyard, Broadway, Manhattan, New York.

Hamilton died of wounds received in a duel with Aaron Burr at Weehawken on July 11, 1804.

Alvin Hansen (1887 - 1975)

Viborg, South Dakota, USA.

F.A. Hayek (1899 - 1992)

Neustift am Wald cemetery, Vienna, Austria.

"On a rough-hewn gravestone, beneath a cross it reads:

F.A. Hayek

1899 -- 1992

The stone comes from the area of the Tyrolean Alps which Hayek often visited."

(Alan Ebenstein, Friedrich Hayek: Philosopher of Libertarianism)

David Hume (May 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776)

Old Calton Burial Ground, Waterloo Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
(www.findagrave.com)

William Stanley Jevons (September 1, 1835 - August 13, 1882)

Hampstead Cemetery, London, England.

Jevons drowned while swimming when on holiday at Hastings in the South of England. He was not in good health and may have suffered a heart-attack or stroke.

John Maynard Keynes (June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946)

"He was cremated in Brighton on 24 April ... His ashes were scattered on the Downs above Tilton where he and Lydia used to walk. Lydia's ashes were scattered beside them 35 years later."
"Keynes's will stated that his ashes were to be deposited in the crypt at King's, but Geoffrey Keynes, 'not a very conscientious executor' according to his son Richard, forgot about that instruction and scattered them on the Downs. Thus when Richard Keynes, acting as Lydia's executor, had to deal with Lydia's ashes, he too could not follow the instructions in the will to put them beside Keynes's in King's and scattered them on the Downs."
(D.E. Moggridge, Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography)

John Locke (August 29, 1632 - September 28, 1704)

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

T. R. Malthus (February 13, 1766 - December 29, 1834)

"He was buried in Bath Abbey on 6 January 1835, in the north aisle, but the grave has since been covered by pews. His memorial tablet, believed to be Otter's work, is now in the north porch at the west end of the Abbey, and is a far better summing-up than epitaphs usually are, of 'a serene and happy life...supported by a calm and but firm conviction of the usefulness of his labours.' The inscription may contain a 'mistake' about his birth [born February 13th not 14th] but it is the truth about the man." (Patricia James, The Travel Diaries of T. R. Malthus).
(www.findagrave.com)

Thanks to Nigel Malthus, see his Malthus Homepage

Alfred Marshall (July 26, 1842 - July 13, 1924)

St. Giles Graveyard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

"The grave is in a far corner of its consecrated ground, marked by a simple granite surround, inscribed, equally simply, 'Alfred Marshall 1842-1924.' (Peter Groenewegen, A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall 1842-1924, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1995, p. 743)

Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883)

Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

John Ramsey McCulloch (1789 - 1864)

Brompton Cemetery, London, England.

John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 - May 7, 1873) and Harriet Taylor Mill (October 8, 1807 - November 3, 1858)

Cemetery of St. V�ran, near Avignon, Provence, France.

Gustave de Molinari (March 3, 1819 - January 12, 1912)

Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.

Thomas Mun (1571 - 1641)

Chancel of St Helen's Bishopsgate, City of London, England.

John Von Neumann (December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957)

Princeton University Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
(www.findagrave.com)

Vilfredo Pareto (July 15, 1848 - August 19, 1923)

Cemetery of Celigny, Canton Geneva, Switzerland.

(Pareto Home Page, University of Lausanne.)

Sir William Petty (May 26, 1623 - December 16, 1687)

Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, England.

(John Aubrey's brief life of Petty)

John Rae (June 1, 1796 - July 12, 1872)

Woodland Cemetery, Staten Island.

According to Warren James in John Rae--Political Economist (Toronto, 1965, vol 1, p. 123) Rae's grave is in an old section of Woodland Cemetery, overgrown with weeds and unmarked.

David Ricardo (April 18, 1772 - September 11, 1823) and Priscilla Anne Ricardo (1768 - 1849)

St. Nicholas' Churchyard, Hardenhuish, Wiltshire, England.

Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 - November 15, 1832)

Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.

Nassau William Senior (1790 - 1864)

Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England.

George Shackle (1903-1992)

Churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.

Adam Smith (June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790)

Canongate Churchyard, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903)

Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

Piero Sraffa (August 5, 1908 - December 3, 1983)

Trinity College, Cambridge, England [Memorial].
(www.findagrave.com)

Dugald Stewart (November 22, 1753 - June 11, 1828)

Canongate Churchyard, Royal Mile Edinburgh, Scotland.

There is also a large and splendid memorial to Stewart on Edinburgh's Calton Hill.

Frank William Taussig (December 28, 1859 - November 11, 1940)

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A. R. Jacques Turgot (May 10, 1727 - March 18, 1781)

Turgot is buried beneath the chapel floor of the Laennec Hospital (known even earlier as the Hospice des Incurables), 42 Rue de Sevres, Paris. The chapel courtyard contains a memorial bust, a picture of which can be found on the website of the Laennec chapel rehabilitation project. Thanks to Professor Emmanuel S. de Dois.

Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783 - 1850)

Belitz, Germany.

On Thünen's gravestone is engraved:
A = � ap
[The natural wage, A, is the square root of (ap), where p is the worker's product and a is his
subsistence requirements.]

(Visit the Thuenen Museum Tellow)

Sebastian le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban (1633-1707)

Les Invalides, Paris, France.

"His tomb is among the most beautiful there. I wonder if the remains of any other economist rest in such splendor."
(Earl J. Hamilton, HOPE vol 1, 1969, pp 123-49, n. 52)

Thorstein Veblen (July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929)

"Ardzrooni and Davenport, who was in Palo Alto at the time, were at a loss as to Veblen's wishes in the matter of burial. They decided to have him cremated and scatter the ashes over the Pacific Ocean. Later Ardzrooni found a piece of writing in Veblen's papers which indicated that the funeral arrangements accordedwith Veblen's wishes. The note was unsigned, written in pencil probably within a week of his death:

It is my wish, in case of death, to be cremated, if it can conveniently be done, as expeditiously and inexpensively as may be, without ritual or ceremony of any kind; that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable strean running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any nameor nature, be set up in my memory or name in any place or at any time; that no obituary, memorial, portrait, or biography of me, nor any letters written to or by me be printed or published, or in any way reproduced, copied or circulated."
(Joseph Dorfman, Thorstein Veblen and His America. p.504)

William Whewell (May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866)

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, England.
(www.findagrave.com)

Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 - March 7, 1929)

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Allyn Young died in 1929 in London, only 18 months after taking up his appointment at the LSE, as a result of a influenza epidemic. He was cremated in London and his ashes buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery two years later in 1931.

Can you add to M.R.'s list of the whereabouts of famous economists' graves?

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