Southgate Cemetery
General view of Southgate Cemetery
Southgate Cemetery, sometimes known as Edmonton and Southgate Cemetery or Old Southgate Cemetery, is a cemetery in Waterfall Road, Southgate, London, run by the London Borough of Enfield. The cemetery was established by the Southgate Burial Board in 1880.[1] There is no chapel at the cemetery but Christ Church, Southgate, Church of England church is adjacent on the other side of Waterfall Road.[2] The cemetery contains the war graves of 92 Commonwealth service personnel, 20 from World War I and 72 from World War II.[3]
Notable interments
- William Samuel Glyn-Jones, Politician and pharmacist.
- Thomas Melville, chairman of Southgate Urban District Council.
- Charles Frederick Peploe, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate.
- Lionel Keir Robinson, CBE, MC.
- Rev. William H.I. Simpson of St Andrew's Southgate.
- George Albert Watts, mayor of St Pancras 1938-39.
- Herbert Francis Wauthier, mayor of Southgate 1936-37.
- James Edwin Williams, first general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.
References
- ↑ Southgate Cemetery. London Gardens Online. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ↑ Meller, Hugh, & Brian Parsons. (2011). London cemeteries: An illustrated guide & gazetteer (5th ed.). Stroud: History Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7524-9690-0.
- ↑ "Southgate Cemetery, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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Coordinates: 51°37′33″N 0°07′56″W / 51.6257°N 0.1322°W
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