The Friends of Highland Road Cemetery The Friends of Highland Road Cemetery

OTHER GRAVES


 
Grave of Headstone
Mary Palmer (d. 1888)
Esteemed confectioner
Polly Baber
Singer
Arthur Brickwood (d. 1894)
Grandson of the founder and Chairman of the famous Brickwood Brewery.
Henry Burnett (d. 1899)
Memorial only; buried in Dawson City after Klondike Gold Rush
Mother Emma (d. 1920)
Active social reformer, Deaconess and founder of The Home Of Comfort.
Communal Burial Ground
24 Sisters of Nazareth who died between 1900 and 1979.
John Hawkins (d. 1885)
One of Conan Doyle's earliest patients whose sister became the first Mrs Doyle.
Arthur Eggerton Knight (d. 1956)
A Portsmouth footballer who became an England International.
Martha Linington (d. 1908)
Left a widow, with a forge and 17 children, she built up the coach-building firm.
Henry Rutley (d. 1874)
Circus Proprietor responsible for the first theatre on the current site of the Theatre Royal.
Gustave de Battyany-Strattman (d. 1883)
Austrian Count; died at a Newmarket Race Meeting
Harry Whitman (d. 1955)
One of the last inhabitants of Southsea Castle and Keeper of the Light.
Fred T. Jane (d. 1916)
Naval Correspondent and artist; founder/editor of Jane's Fighting Ships.