The Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa is a cemetery in
Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro
Gamboa is a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gamboa, along with Santo Cristo and Saúde, is one of the oldest boroughs of Rio. It was originally settled by the aristocracy, due to the attractive position on the shores of Guanabara Bay, b ...
in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is also known as the ''English Cemetery'' or the ''British Cemetery Gamboa''.
History
John VI of Portugal
, house = Braganza
, father = Peter III of Portugal
, mother = Maria I of Portugal
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Queluz Palace, Queluz, Portugal
, death_date =
, death_place = Bemposta Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
, ...
ceded two and a half acres of land near the shore of Guanabara Bay to the British in 1809. The British Ambassador to the Emperor's court (
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (31 August 178029 May 1855) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.
Early life
He was the son of Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford (1753–1801) and Maria Eliza Philipse. In 1769, his sixteen-year ...
), founded the cemetery. The first burial was in 1811.
There are 8 World War I and 4 World War II
Commonwealth war graves
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mi ...
in the cemetery.
Location
The cemetery is located in Rua da Gamboa, in the neighborhood of Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro.
Cemitério dos Inglezes
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References
External links
The British Burial Fund – Gamboa
– The British & Commonwealth Society of Rio
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1811 establishments in Brazil
Burial sites of the Seymour family
Anglican cemeteries in South America
Cemeteries established in the 1810s
Ingleses
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Brazil