Cemetery in Nailsworth, South Australia
North Road Cemetery is located in the
Adelaide suburb of
Nailsworth , approximately 5 km north of the
central business district . It is 7.3 hectares (18 acres) in size and there have been over 26,000 burials since its foundation in 1853. The original size of the cemetery was 0.8 hectare (2 acres) and was established by South Australia's first
Anglican bishop,
Augustus Short on land which he owned. The cemetery is still maintained by the
Anglican
Diocese of Adelaide .
Notable interments
Richard Baker , barrister and politician, first President of the Australian Senate
Daisy Bates , journalist, welfare worker and
Protector of Aborigines
Benjamin Boothby , colonial judge
Haydn Bunton, Sr. , legendary Australian rules footballer
Henry John Butler , early Australian aviator
Sir
Robert William Chapman , engineer and mathematician
John Dempster , City Organist
John Downer , twice
Premier of South Australia in the 19th century
Rev.
George Henry Farr , headmaster of
St Peter's College , and his wife
Julia Farr , social worker
William Finke , early settler, prospector and pastoralist
James Collins Hawker , explorer, surveyor and
aide de camp to Governor
George Gawler
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George Wright Hawkes , Anglican churchman associated with
Trinity Church and
St Peter's College
Clem Hill , Australian cricketer
Stephen King , Australian explorer
Sir
Angas Parsons , politician and judge
William John Peterswald , Chief Commissioner of Police of the Colony of South Australia (1882-1896)
Alexander Poynton , former
Treasurer and Federal Parliament politician
Charles Rasp , discoverer of lead deposits at
Broken Hill and a founding shareholder of
BHP
Moritz Richard Schomburgk ,
German -born botanist and director of the
Adelaide Botanic Garden
Alfred Searcy , public servant and writer
Sir
Keith Macpherson Smith , early Australian aviator and flight pioneer
Sir
Ross Macpherson Smith , early Australian aviator and flight pioneer
Edward Charles Stirling , founder of the
University of Adelaide 's medical school, Director of
South Australian Museum , anthropologist, explorer and the first person in Australasia to introduce a bill for
women's suffrage
Harriet Stirling OBE, joint founder of the School for Mothers and
Mareeba Babies' Hospital
John Lancelot Stirling , Member of Parliament, director of several important SA companies, and introducer of polo to South Australia
Sir
Robert Kyffin Thomas , newspaper proprietor
Charles Todd , colonial Superintendent of Telegraphs and the Government Astronomer
Thomas Worsnop , City Treasurer and Town Clerk of the City of Adelaide, historian, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London.
Edmund Wright , architect and former Lord Mayor of Adelaide
John Wrathall Bull , claimed inventor of the
Wheat Stripper
The cemetery contains the war graves of over 1,500 Commonwealth service personnel, ranging from WW1 to the Vietnam War.
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References
External links
34°53′S 138°36′E / 34.883°S 138.600°E / -34.883; 138.600
Cemeteries in South Australia
Adelaide Cemeteries Authority Metropolitan Rural No longer in use