Southgate Cemetery Explained

Southgate Cemetery should not be confused with New 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

• 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
• 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, Chief Constable, CID, Metropolitan Police
• Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith 1921–57

External links

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Notes and References

1. http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=ENF042 Southgate Cemetery.
2. Book: Meller, Hugh, & Brian Parsons.. London cemeteries: An illustrated guide & gazetteer. 5th. 2011. History Press. Stroud. 978-0-7524-9690-0. 244.
3. Web site: Southgate Cemetery, with list of casualties. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 29 April 2018.