Mary J Clarke suffragette Inscription Headstone Aug 2022

Southgate Cemetery, sometimes known as Edmonton and Southgate Cemetery or Old Southgate Cemetery, is a cemetery in Waterfall Road,

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, London, run by the

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. The cemetery was established by the Southgate Burial Board in 1880. There is no chapel at the cemetery but

Christ Church, Southgate Christ Church, Southgate, is a Church of England parish church in Waterfall Road, Southgate, London. It describes itself as a " liberal catholic Church of England parish". The building is grade II* listed with Historic England. In 2014 the c ...

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church is adjacent on the other side of Waterfall Road. The cemetery contains the war graves of 92 Commonwealth service personnel, 20 from

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and 72 from

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Notable interments

Mary Jane Clarke Mary Jane Clarke (''née'' Goulden; 1862– 1910), was a British suffragette. She died on Christmas Day 1910 two days after being released from prison where she had been force fed. She was described in her obituary by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence ...

, suffragette * William Samuel Glyn-Jones, politician and pharmacist *

Gerald Massey Gerald Massey (; 29 May 1828 – 29 October 1907) was an English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt. Early life Massey was born near Tring, Hertfordshire in England to poor parents. When little more than a child, he was made t ...

, author * Thomas Melville, chairman of Southgate Urban District Council * Charles Frederick Peploe, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate *

Herbie Roberts Herbert Roberts (19 February 1905 – 19 June 1944) was an English footballer. Playing career Born in Oswestry, Shropshire, Roberts first played as an amateur for his local club Oswestry Town, whilst working as a policeman. A tall, but quiet ...

, professional footballer for Arsenal * Lionel Keir Robinson, CBE, MC *

George Albert Watts George Albert Watts (16 December 1885 – 25 January 1957) was a British justice of the peace, councillor and the mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, London, from 1938 to 1939. He was born in Finsbury Finsbury is a district of ...

, 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 The National Union of Railwaymen was a trade union of railway workers in the United Kingdom. The largest railway workers' union in the country, it was influential in the national trade union movement. History The NUR was an industrial union ...

Frederick Porter Wensley Frederick Porter Wensley (28 March 1865 – 4 December 1949) served as a British police officer from 1888 until 1929, reaching the rank of chief constable of the Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Serving in Whitechapel for ...

, Chief Constable, CID, Metropolitan Police *

Shoghi Effendi Shoghí Effendi (; 1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, appointed to the role of Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. He created a series of teaching plans that over ...

, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith 1921–57

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