The Dunedin Northern Cemetery is a major historic cemetery in the southern

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. It is located on a sloping site close to Lovelock Avenue on a spur of Signal Hill close to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the suburb of Opoho, overlooking

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and Logan Park. The site was set aside in 1872, with the last plot being purchased in 1937. The cemetery forms part of Dunedin's Town belt, a green belt surrounding the inner city. Unlike many cemeteries of its age, Dunedin Northern Cemetery is not divided by denomination, and with its landscapes and wooded slopes remains an important part of the city's Victorian landscape. The cemetery contains many notable graves and tombs, most prominently the mausoleum of

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, designed by R.A. Lawson as a miniature replica of First Church. Other notable burials and interments include

Thomas Bracken Thomas Bracken (c. December 1843 – 16 February 1898) was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician. He wrote "God Defend New Zealand", one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, and was the first person to publish the ph ...

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. There are war graves of 17 Commonwealth service personnel from

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CWGC Cemetery Report. The sexton's cottage at the entrance to the cemetery contains a visitor's centre. A commemorative lookout, the Bracken Lookout, is located at the southern end of the cemetery, and commands views across Logan Park, the

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and central city. The cemetery is listed on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register as a Historic Place – Category I.

Notable interments

Alfred Henry Burton Alfred Henry Burton ( 1834 – 2 February 1914) is a nineteenth-century New Zealand photographer. Biography Burton was born in Leicester, England. His father, John Burton, was a photographer and his firm was called John Burton and Sons. Burt ...

Thomas Hocken Thomas Morland Hocken (14 January 1836 – 17 May 1910) was a New Zealand collector, bibliographer and researcher. Early life He was born in Rutlandshire on 14 January 1836, the son of Wesleyan minister Joshua Hocken, and educated at Woodhouse ...

W. M. Hodgkins William Mathew Hodgkins (23 September 1833 – 9 February 1898) was a 19th-century New Zealand painter.Entwisle, Peter. (1984) "William Mathew Hodgkins" in ''William Mathew Hodgkins & his Circle'', Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Public Art Gallery. He ...

* Robert Lawson *

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* George O'Brien *

Ada Paterson Ada Gertrude Paterson (6 June 1880 – 26 August 1937) was a New Zealand school doctor, child health administrator and community worker. Early life and education Paterson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1880. She graduated from the U ...

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References

External links

Cemetery website
* {{Authority control Northern Cemetery NZHPT Category I listings in Otago Burials at Dunedin Northern Cemetery