Cemetery in Enfield, London, England
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
- Mary Jane Clarke, suffragette
- William Samuel Glyn-Jones, politician and pharmacist
- Gerald Massey, author
- Thomas Melville, chairman of Southgate Urban District Council
- Charles Frederick Peploe, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate
- Herbie Roberts, professional footballer for Arsenal[4]
- Lionel Keir Robinson, CBE, MC
- 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
- Frederick Porter Wensley, OBE, KPM, Chief Constable, CID, Metropolitan Police
- Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith 1921–57
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