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Penn New Churchyard plot number 48
- How things would have evolved we do not know, as the story came to an abrupt and tragic end when David Blakely was murdered by his girlfriend Ruth Ellis on Easter Sunday, 10 April 1955. He is buried in Penn New Churchyard plot number 48.
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David Moffat Drummond Blakely. Birth. 17 Jun 1929. Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Death. 10 Apr 1955 (aged 25) Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England. Burial. Holy Trinity Churchyard.
Humphrey and Anne Cook are buried together in the New Churchyard, Plot 30. David’s elder brother John Brien Blakely (1920-1963) was a Royal Naval pilot in WW2, flying Torpedo bombers (probably Fairey Swordfish).
How things would have evolved we do not know, as the story came to an abrupt and tragic end when David Blakely was murdered by his girlfriend Ruth Ellis on Easter Sunday, 10 April 1955. He is buried in Penn New Churchyard plot number 48.
3 days ago · David Blakeley was the man shot and killed by Ruth Ellis who became the last woman in Britain to be executed. The shooting happened outside a pub in Hampstead on 10 April 1955. The pair had been in a tempestuous relationship and both had other partners. Blakely was educated at Shrewsbury School and Sandhurst and before taking up a career as a racing driver. He was 26 at the time of the murder.
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Feb 28, 2021 · Ellis, who is buried in Amersham, shot and killed David Blakely outside the Magdala public house in Hampstead on Easter Sunday in 1955. He was a 25-year-old upper-class racing driver who had been in a relationship with Ellis.
Four miles to the south, David Blakely lies buried in the grounds of a church at Penn. The peace and contentment they never found in life will be with them for eternity, as they lie so close together in the tranquility of these two English burial grounds.
