Howard Charles Tolkien

Frank Tolkien
born July 28th 1864
died April 24th 1867
Howard Charles Tolkien
born December 27th 1866
died October 27th 1867
The beloved children of
John Benjamin and Mary Jane Tolkien
of Handsworth

Key Hill Cemetery is located near the Jewellery Quarter, in the south of the Hockley area of Birmingham. It is – together with the nearby Warstone Lane Cemetery – the oldest ‘independent’ cemetery in the city (earlier, there were only churchyards there). Key Hill opened in 1936. It was a so-called Nonconformist cemetery: only non-Anglicans were buried there (members of the Church of England found their resting place in Warstone Lane). The tombstone of J.B. Tolkien’s family is situated near the main entrance on Icknield Street, just before the second intersection and the corner with the catacombs.

Tadeusz A. Olszański