• Source: North Road 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 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
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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Historical graves at North Road Cemetery

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