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About the Brighton General Cemetery The Brighton General Cemetery is located in Caulfield South and is one of Melbourne's oldest and most significant burial grounds. Twenty-nine acres was reserved in 1853 and in December 1854 the first Trustees were appointed making it the oldest continuous Cemetery Trust in Melbourne. Since the first recorded burial on 14 October 1855, over 66,000 interments have taken place. On the 1st March 2010, Cheltenham & Regional Cemeteries Trust along with Springvale Cemetery became part of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. Brighton General Cemetery is a Victorian garden cemetery of heritage significance and renowned throughout Australia for the many notable military figures and artists. In April 2007 the trust was abolished and the Brighton Cemetery became amalgamated as part of the Cheltenham and Regional Cemetery Trust. |
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Who is Who The Brighton General Cemetery is the final resting place of 4 V.C. Recipients, well known and not so well known people these include: Sir Thomas Bent - Premier of Victoria [CE D Grave 132] Theodore Penleigh Boyd – Artist [CE P Grave 46] Francis Thomas Dean Carrington - Journalist, Political Cartoonist and Illustrator [Independent J Grave 83] Florence Edsall – WW1 Nurse [CE ZA Grave 1722] John Hare Furphy - Blacksmith Merchant [Meth A Graves 66 & 68] James & William Lees - Convicts and Market Gardeners [CE D 29] Caroline Lynch - Almanac/Directory Maker, Feminist and Patron of the Arts [RC N Grave 4] Sir Frederick McCoy - Academic, Museum Administrator, Palaeontologist [CE A Graves 133 & 134] Marjory Kathleen Meagher – Murder Victim [Pres J Grave 211A] Sir John Monash - Soldier and Administrator [Jewish F Grave 20] Charles Alfred Ogg – Architect [CE Y 191 192] Walter Peeler - Soldier and Victoria Cross recipient [Lawn H Plaque 36] Joseph Leslie Theodore 'Squizzy' Taylor - Larrikin Crook [CE ZA Grave 1894] William Weatherley – Miner and Grazier [Pres H Graves 110 111 12] |
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Last Updated: 24-Oct-2007 18:24.