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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 edit

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

References edit

^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Southgate Cemetery, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 April 2018.