North Road Cemetery

North Road Cemetery

Graves at North Road Cemetery
Details
Year established	1853
Country	Australia
Location	Nailsworth, South Australia
Owned by	Anglican Diocese of Adelaide
Size	18 acres (73,000 m2)
Number of graves	more than 24,000

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

• Daisy Bates, journalist, welfare worker and Protector of Aborigines
• Benjamin Boothby, colonial judge
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Edmund Wright, architect and former Lord Mayor of Adelaide

External links

• Historical graves at North Road Cemetery