Southgate Cemetery

Not to be confused with New Southgate Cemetery.

Southgate Cemetery, sometimes known as Edmonton and Southgate Cemetery or Old Southgate Cemetery, is a cemetery in Waterfall Road, Southgate, London, run by the London Borough of Enfield. The cemetery was established by the Southgate Burial Board in 1880.^[1] There is no chapel at the cemetery but Christ Church, Southgate, Church of England church is adjacent on the other side of Waterfall Road.^[2] The cemetery contains the war graves of 92 Commonwealth service personnel, 20 from World War I and 72 from World War II.^[3]

This is the inscription on Mary Jane Clarke's grave; also buried here is her brother Herbert Goulden

General view of Southgate Cemetery

Notable interments

• Mary Jane Clarke, suffragette
• William Samuel Glyn-Jones, politician and pharmacist
• Gerald Massey, author
• Thomas Melville, chairman of Southgate Urban District Council
• Charles Frederick Peploe, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate
• Herbie Roberts, professional footballer for Arsenal^[4]
• Lionel Keir Robinson, CBE, MC
• George Albert Watts, mayor of St Pancras 1938–39
• Herbert Francis Wauthier, mayor of Southgate 1936–37
• James Edwin Williams, first general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen
• Frederick Porter Wensley, OBE, KPM, Chief Constable, CID, Metropolitan Police