Margate Cemetery Explained

Margate Cemetery
Established:	1856
Country:	England
Location:	Margate
Coordinates:	51.373°N 1.376°W
Website:	St John’s Cemetery, Margate
Findagraveid:	2205783

St John’s Cemetery, Margate is a cemetery located in Margate, Kent in England. The cemetery dates back to 1856

History

The Surf Boat Memorial is a Grade II listed building in Margate Cemetery.^[1]

Notable burials

• John Allen (RAF officer), flying ace of the Second World War
• Pamela Barton, English amateur golfer
• Samuel Courtauld, art collector
• Thomas Selby Egan, coxswain and rowing coach
• Leslie Fuller, comic actor
• Richard Henry Horne, poet
• Sir William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish portraitist - memorial
• Lord George Sanger, English circus proprietor
• John Sanger, English circus proprietor
• Victoria Sanger Freeman, "the Queen of the Elephants"

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 53 Commonwealth service personnel (two unidentified) of World War I which are scattered throughout the cemetery, and of 83 (three unidentified) from World War Two, in addition to 18 German airmen (one unidentified) who are buried with 50 of the British casualties in a war graves plot in Section 50. A number of dead from the latter war were from the Dunkirk evacuations.^[2]

External links

• Margate Cemetery - Billion Graves

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barker . Peter . Margate RNLI commemorate the 1897 Surf Boat tragedy . Margate RNLI . 27 July 2022.
2. https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/39826/margate-cemetery-kent/ Margate Cemetery