North Road Cemetery

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Established 1853 Size 18 acres (73,000 m) Founded 1853		Country Australia No. of graves more than 24,000 Phone +61 8 8344 1051

Location Nailsworth, South Australia Owned by Anglican Diocese of Adelaide Address Cemetery Ave, Nailsworth SA 5083, Australia Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday8:30AM–5PMTuesday8:30AM–5PMWednesday8:30AM–5PMThursday8:30AM–5PMFriday8:30AM–5PMSaturdayClosed Owner Anglican Diocese of Adelaide Burials Daisy Bates, Richard Baker, Herbert Basedow Similar Australian Cemeteries, Cheltenh Cemetery, Payneham Cemetery, Centennial Park Cemetery, Mitcham General Cemetery

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 24,000 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

John Downer, twice Premier of South Australia in the 19th century

Clem Hill, Australian cricketer

Stephen King, Australian explorer

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

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

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, inventor of the Wheat Striper

William Hill, partner in "John Dunn & Company", largest flour milling company in the southern hemisphere

The cemetery contains the war graves of 27 Commonwealth service personnel, 16 from World War I and 11 from World War II.

References

North Road Cemetery Wikipedia

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