Jeanette Pickersgill

Jeanette Pickersgill (30 November 1813 – 20 March 1885) was an English painter. She was the first person to be legally cremated in the United Kingdom, at Woking Crematorium in Surrey.[1]

  1. ^ "How cremation became the way to go". BBC News Online. 25 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009.