North Road Cemetery
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Graves at North Road Cemetery | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1853 |
| Location | Nailsworth, South Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Owned by | Anglican Diocese of Adelaide |
| Size | 18 acres (73,000 m2) |
| Number of graves | more than 24,000 |
North Road Cemetery is located in the Adelaide suburb of Nailsworth, approximately 5 km north of the central business district. It is 7.3 hectares (18 acres) in size and there have been over 24,000 burials since its foundation in 1853. The original size of the cemetery was 0.8 hectare (2 acres) and was established by South Australia’s first Anglican bishop, Augustus Short on land which he owned. The cemetery is still maintained by the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide.
Notable interments
- Daisy Bates, journalist, welfare worker and Protector of Aborigines
- Benjamin Boothby, colonial judge
- Haydn Bunton, Sr., legendary Australian rules footballer
- Henry John Butler, early Australian aviator
- John Downer, twice Premier of South Australia in the 19th century
- Clem Hill, Australian cricketer
- Stephen King, Australian explorer
- William John Peterswald, Chief Commissioner of Police of the Colony of South Australia (1882-1896)
- Alexander Poynton, former Treasurer and Federal Parliament politician
- Charles Rasp, discoverer of lead deposits at Broken Hill and a founding shareholder of BHP
- Moritz Richard Schomburgk, German-born botanist and director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden
- Alfred Searcy, public servant and writer
- Ross Macpherson Smith, early Australian aviator and flight pioneer
- Edward Charles Stirling, founder of the University of Adelaide's medical school, Director of South Australian Museum, anthropologist, explorer and the first person in Australasia to introduce a bill for women's suffrage
- Harriet Stirling OBE, joint founder of the School for Mothers and Mareeba Babies' Hospital
- John Lancelot Stirling, Member of Parliament, director of several important SA companies, and introducer of polo to South Australia
- Charles Todd, colonial Superintendent of Telegraphs and the Government Astronomer
- Edmund Wright, architect and former Lord Mayor of Adelaide
- John Wrathall Bull, inventor of the Wheat Striper
The cemetery contains the war graves of 27 Commonwealth service personnel, 16 from World War I and 11 from World War II.[1]
References
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from casualty record.
External links
Coordinates: 34°53′S 138°36′E / 34.883°S 138.600°E
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