Originally compiled for the Brighton General Cemetery’s 150th anniversary, below are some of the most significant interments.
Edward Nathaniel Abrahams (1848-1924) – Bookmaker
Addison Adamson (1858-1924) – cian, Councillor, Mayor, Stock And Station Agent & Horse Owner
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Ahern (1877-1969) – Socialist Propagandist & Women’s Activist
Thomas Albury (1824-94) – Carter
Alexander Alexander (c1856-1925) – Businessman
William Henry Allard (1859-1927) – Councillor, Mayor & Estate Agent
Arthur Rudolph Bailey (1863-1938) – Pharmacist
(Jack) Kingsbury Baillieu (1900-26) – Estate Agent
Richard Baker (1830-1915) – Politician, Temperance Advocate & Mining Investor
Stephen Barker (1846-1924) – Senator, Trade Unionist & Councillor
Edith Helen Barrett (1872-1939) – Medical Practitioner
George Bayliss (1893-1935) – Aussie Rules Footballer
James Bell (1836-1908) – Merchant, Businessman & Politician
Matthew Bennett (1862-1951) – Politician, Councillor, Shire President & Farmer
Rev Sir C Irving Benson (1897-1980) – Methodist Clergyman & Journalist
James Bent (c1804-75) – Market Gardener, Hotelkeeper & Convict
Sir Thomas Bent (1838-1909) – Premier, Politician, Councillor, Mayor & Land Speculator
George Henry Billson (1844-1927) – Councillor, Mayor & Manufacturer
Walter David Bingle (1861-1928) – Public Servant
William Arthur Mordey Blackett (1872-1962) – Architect & Soldier
Albert Edward Howarth Blakey (1880-1935) – Senator & Union Official
John Richard ‘Jack’ Bowen (1909-71) – Timber Merchant
Richard Bowen (1864-1924) – Timber Merchant & Labourer
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-99) – Artist, Potter & Soldier
Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (1923-88) – Sculptor & Conservationist
(Theodore) Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923) – Artist & Soldier
(William) Merric Boyd (1888-1959) – Potter & Soldier
Charles Broughton Boydell (1856-1919) – Clerk of Parliament
William Brahe (1835-1912) – Adventurer
Joseph Tilley Brown (1844-1925) – Politician, Stock and Station Agent & Pastoral Investor
William Henry Brown (1861-1926) – Medical Practitioner, Councillor & Shire President
Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915) – Writer, Civil Servant & Pastoralist
Frederick Horatio Bruford (1846-1920) – Public Servant & Artist
Maurice Vincent Buckley VC (1891-1921) – Victoria Cross Recipient, Soldier & Contractor
Richard Hale Budd (1816-1909) – Educationist
Lionel Vivian Bunker (1885-1924) – Detective
Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) – Writer & Poet
James Campbell (1845-93) – Politician, Writer & Adventurer
Sir Edward Carlile (1845-1917) – Lawyer, Public Servant & Parliamentary Draftsman
Thomas William Carre-Riddell (1852-1930) – Aide-de-Camp, Regular Soldier & Grazier
Francis Thomas Dean ‘Tom’ Carrington (1843-1918) – Cartoonist, Illustrator & Journalist
James Joseph Casey (1831-1913) – Politician, Judge, Newspaper Proprietor & Councillor
Carlo Giorgio Domenico Enrico ‘Charles’ Catani (1852-1918) – Civil Engineer & Civil Servant
John Moore Chanter (1845-1931) – Farmer, Auctioneer, Commission Agent, Councillor, Mayor & Politician
Thomas Drinkwater Chataway (1864-1925) – Senator, Newspaper Proprietor, Journalist, Councillor & Mayor
Herbert Newman Wigmore Church (1857-1932) – Poet, Writer & Public Servant
John Montgomery Coane (1848-1923) – Surveyor & Consulting Engineer
Godfrey Abraham Cohen (1909-2004) – Businessman & Philanthropist
Patrick ‘Johnny’ Eugene Coleman (1892-1950) – Public Servant & Army Officer
Sir H Cecil Colville (1891-1984) – Medical Practitioner, Surgeon & Soldier
Sir Francis Raymond Connelly (1896-1949) – Lord Mayor & Businessman
Eric Alfred Connolly (1880-1944) – Horse Owner-Trainer & Punter
John Cooke (1850-1921) – Medical Practitioner
Alfred Cornish (1854-1924) – Club Secretary & Civil Engineer
Edward Cotton (1803-60) – Pastoralist & Civil Servant
Sir William Rooke Creswell (1852-1933) – Vice-Admiral
Thomas Crisp (c1830-89) – Councillor, Mayor & Solicitor
John Cronin (1865-1923) – Botanist & Horticulturist
George Henry Crowther (1854-1918) – Educationist
Sir Edward Sheldon Cunningham (1859-1957) – Newspaper Editor & Journalist
James Davies (1865-1931) – Secretary
Clement John ‘Jack’ de Garis (1884-1926) – Entrepreneur & Financier
Elisha (Elizee) Clement de Garis (1851-1948) – Irrigationist, Businessman, Councillor & Methodist Preacher
John Stewart Dethridge (1865-1926) – Civil Engineer
Major Francis Downes (1834-1923) – Army Officer
Harry McLeod Duigan (1875-1931) – Soldier, Solicitor & Sportsman
Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston (1934-76) – Academic Lawyer, Aboriginal Activist & Author
Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1909-91) – Barrister, King’s Counsel, Judge & University Chancellor
Sir James Alexander MacKenzie Elder (1869-1946) – Businessman & Company Director
Torrington George Ellery (1872-1923) – Town Clerk
Charles Fairbairn (1858-1925) – Pastoralist
H Edgar Featherstone (c1874-1928) – Soldier & Medical Superintendent
Samuel Ernest Figgis (c1855-1922) – Engineer & Sportsman
Graham Francis Fitzgibbon (1930-79) – Jazz Musician, Entertainer & Restaurateur
Francis Joseph Fleming (1854-1926) – Financier & Sharebroker
Frederick Edward Forrest (1877-1930) – Politician, Soldier & ex-Servicemen’s Leader
E (Emanuel) Phillips Fox (1865-1915) – Artist & Art Teacher
Sir Simon Fraser (1832-1919) – Senator, Politician, Pastoralist & Contractor
John Hare Furphy (1842-1920) – Blacksmith Merchant & Agricultural Engineer
W (Walter) Smithers Gadd (c1852-1932) – Estate Agent, Councillor & Mayor
Canon John Boyle Gason (c1856/65-1915) – Clergyman & Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral
William Alfred Gibson (1869-1929) – Film Producer & Businessman
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70) – Poet, Horseman, Politician, Speculator & Policeman
John Gordon Gotch (1864-1931) – Businessman
John Francis Goulding (c1874-1922) – Grain Merchant
Jeremiah Andrew Grant (1865-1947) – Councillor, Mayor & Brighton Cemetery Trustee
Warwick Lorne Greville (1937-2006) – Pioneering Plastic Surgeon
(Edward) Norton Grimwade (1866-1945) – Businessman & Company Director
William Robert Guilfoyle (1840-1912) – Landscape Gardener, Botanist & Civil Servant
Frederick William Hagelthorn (1864-1943) – Politician & Stock and Station Agent
Dyas Beverley Hampton (1798-1873) – Pioneer
James Hardie (1851-1920) – Merchant
Rev George Hay (1843-1928) – Clergyman
Sir Bernard Thomas Heinze (1894-1982) – Professor Of Music, Conductor & Soldier
George Herbert (c1855-1926) – Professor of Music & Conductor
George Higinbotham (1825-92) – Politician, Judge, Newspaper Editor & Lawyer
Henry Ambrose Hunt (1866-1946) – Meteorologist & Civil Servant
William Thomas Huntley (1845-1917) – Councillor & Market Gardener
William Hutchinson (1864-1924) – Politician
William Jamieson (1853-1926) – Civil Surveyor & Businessman
George Jameson Johnston (1868-1949) – Soldier, Administrator & Businessman
Paul Jones (1878-1972) – Politician, Soldier & Company Director
Frederick Jowett (c1851-1921) – Shire Secretary
(William) Donovan Joynt VC (1889-1986) – Victoria Cross Recipient, Soldier & Company Director
Richard ‘Dick’ Valentine Keane (1881-1946) – Senator, Politician & Trade Union Official
James Andrew Kershaw (1866-1946) – Scientist & Taxidermist
William MacLeod Morris Kibble (1845-1918) – Railways Commissioner & Public Servant
Frederick Arthur Herbert Knight (1861-1932) – Stockbroker & Pastoralist
Marion Knowles (1865-1949) – Writer
Simon Kozminsky (c1833-1916) – Art Dealer, Jeweller & Antiquarian
Otto Georg Hermann Dittmar Krome (1863-1917) – Educationist
Leslie Herbert Kyngdon (1860-1923) – Regular Soldier
William Laidlaw (c1866-1925) – Botanist & Civil Servant
James Byres Laing (1858-1919) – Public Servant & Accountant
Harry Ousley Blake Lane (1846-1913) – American Civil War veteran
Charles Petley Langdon (1865-1938) – Merchant & Consul
Henry Joseph Langdon (1822-98) – Merchant
Melville Cecil Langslow (1889-1972) – Public Servant & Soldier
Frank Jonas Laver (1869-1919) – Cricketer, Manufacturer & Public Servant
William Adolphus Laver (1866-1940) – Violinist & Professor of Music
Thomas Livingston (1851-1922) – Politician, Businessman, Teacher & Journalist
Charles du Plan Lloyd (c1863-1937) – Insurance Broker, Breeder, Councillor & Mayor
James Loller (1827-72) – Bootmaker
John Long (1828-1924) – Councillor, Shire President & Local Identity
John Henry Stonehouse Lydiard (c1829-1918) – Police Trooper & Pastoralist
William Macansh (1859-1921) – Medical Practitioner, Councillor & Mayor
Hugh Campbell Gemmell Macindoe (1883-1947) – Barrister, Prosecutor, Judge & Soldier
Sir John Emanuel Mackey (1863-1924) – Politician, Lecturer & Lawyer
Charles MacMahon (c1861-1917) – Theatre & Cinema Entrepreneur
George William Louis Marshall-Hall (1862-1915) – Composer, Conductor & Professor of Music
Duncan Elphinstone McBryde (1853-1920) – Company Director, Politician & Pastoralist
David John McClelland (1873-1962) – Engineer & Lecturer
William Caldwell McClelland (1875-1957) – Medical Practitioner, Footballer & VFL President
William Thomas Bartholomew McCormack (1879-1938) – Civil Servant, Civil Engineer & Soldier
Sir Frederick McCoy (1817/23-99) – Professor of Natural Science & Museum Director
Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) – Artist & Art Teacher
George Alexander McKay (1860-1916) – Commissioner of Taxation & Public Servant
James McKinley (c1847-1908) – Newspaper Editor
Janet Mitchel McKinley (c1849-1919) – Patriot & Local Identity
Duncan McLeish (1851-1920) – Soldier & Pastoralist
David John McNamara (1887-1967) – Aussie Rules Footballer & Racehorse Trainer
George Winter McRae (1850-1925) and Duncan Kenneth McRae (c1855-1925) – Pastoralists
Henry Martin (c1874-1923) – Stockbroker
John Walter Mason (1838-1908) – Politician, Councillor & Pastoralist
Hugh Menzies (1857-1925) – Politician, Councillor, Mayor, Bank Manager, Publican & Newsagent
John Henry Loxton Menzies (1859-1948) – Stockbroker, Horseman & Poet
William Alexander Menzies (1861-1916) – Race Handicapper, Horse Trainer & Woolbroker
Septimus Miller (1854-1925) – Horse Owner, Racing Identity & Pastoralist
Thomas Carthew Miners (1860-1922) – Politician, Councillor, President & Auctioneer
Sir John Monash (1865-1931) – Soldier, Engineer, Administrator & Civil Servant
E (Edmund) Notley Moore (c1858-1922) – Police Magistrate
H (Henry) Byron Moore (1839-1925) – Secretary, Entrepreneur, Land Speculator & Civil Servant
George Francis Morris (1834-1910) – Vigneron & Councillor
William Henry Moule (1858-1939) – Judge, Cricketer & Politician
Benjamin Nathan (1864-1935) – Company Director
George Walter Nathan (c1863-1932) – Company Director
Simeon Nathan (c1861-1925) – Company Director
James Ernest Newland VC (1881-1949) – Victoria Cross Recipient & Regular Soldier
Alfred Michael Nicholas (1881-1937) – Businessman & Philanthropist
Wriothesley Baptist Noel (1827-86) – Judge, Barrister & Police Magistrate
Charles Ernest Norman (1854-1922) – Railway Commissioner & Civil Engineer
John Francis ‘Jack’ O’Hagan (1898-1987) – Song Composer
John Bernard O’Hara (1864-1927) – Educationist & Poet
David Augustus O’Keeffe (1885-1964) – Soldier & Plumber
Thomas James O’Loughlin (c1866-1929) – Businessman & Catholic Benefactor
Laurence O’Shea (c1837-91) – Councillor, Publican, Pastoralist & Brighton Cemetery Trustee
Percy Oakden (1845-1917) – Architect & Surveyor
George Officer (1867-1927) – Woolbroker & Grazier
Charles Alfred Ogg (1867-1932) – Architect
John Brueze Hingeston Ogier (1821-1913) – Barrister & Civil Servant
Harrison Ord (1862-1910) – Public Servant
David Montgomerie Paton (1856-1935) – Medical Practitioner
Sidney Philip Patterson (1927-99) – Cyclist & Olympian
Alexander Buchanan Pearson (1869-1920) – Racing Identity & Pastoralist
William Pearson (1818-93) – Pastoralist, Mining Investor, Politician & Horseracing Identity
Walter ‘Wally’ Peeler VC (1887-1968) – Victoria Cross Recipient & Soldier
John de Burgh Perceval (1923-2000) – Artist, Potter & Soldier
George Powell (c1838-1925) – Founder Commercial Travellers’ Association & Soldier
H (Harold) Septimus Power (1877-1951) – Artist & Art Teacher
Gustave Mario Ramaciotti (1861-1927) – Soldier, Theatrical Manager & Law Clerk
Vernon Seymour Ransford (1885-1958) – Cricketer & Cricket Administrator
William Rattle (c1829-1920) – Labourer
Charles Henry Rendall (1856-1925) – Educationist
George Ernest Roberts (1868-1925) – Politician, Union Official, Soldier & Hairdresser
Robert Robertson (1843-1910) – Medical Practitioner
Edward Oswin Robinson (1847-1917) – Pioneer of the Top End
James Thomas Rudall (1828-1907) – Surgeon & Ophthalmologist
Edward John ‘Teddy’ Russell (1878-1925) – Senator & Trade Unionist
John Sadleir (1833-1919) – Police Superintendent
John William Satchwell (1853-1936) – Police Inspector, Councillor & Mayor
John Simmonds (1793-1860) – Brighton Identity and First Secretary/Trustee
David Alexander Skene (1855-1921) – Pastoralist & Stock and Station Owner
Thomas Hamilton Skene (1877-1929) – Pastoralist & Soldier
Thomas Skene (1845-1910) – Pastoralist & Politician
Vincent Smith (c1891-1920) – Aircraftman
William Beattie Smith (1854-1921) – Medical Practitioner
Oswald Robinson Snowball (1859-1928) – Politician, Protestant Identity & Solicitor
Frank Stapley (1858-1944) – Lord Mayor, Town Planner & Architect
Sir Alexander Anderson Stewart (1876-1956) – Industrialist, Company Director & Engineer
Charles Stone (1819-98) – Councillor, Old Colonist, Cemetery Trustee & Methodist Identity
Rev Charles Strong (1844-1942) – Clergyman & Controversialist
Grace Alevina Sublet (c1834-1921) – Wife of Eureka Miner
Henry Sutton (1856-1912) – Inventor
Donald Alexander Swanson (1859-1940) – Builder & Contractor
Eveline Winifred Syme (1888-1961) – Painter & Printmaker
George Alexander Syme (1822-94) – Newspaper Editor & Clergyman
Joseph Cowen Syme (1852-1916) – Newspaper Proprietor, Company Director & Pastoralist
Sir George Adlington Syme (1859-1929) – Surgeon & Soldier
Tal-ler-ul-gate Jnr (d 1867) – Last of the Bunurong Aboriginals
Henry Tate (1873-1926) – Musicologist
Sir John William Taverner (1853-1923) – Politician & Councillor
Lloyd Tayler (1830-1900) – Architect
(Joseph) Leslie Theodore ‘Squizzy’ Taylor (1888-1927) – Larrikin Crook
Henry Barkley Templeton (1868-1943) – Public Servant
Albert John Thurgood (1874-1927) – Aussie Rules Footballer & Racehorse owner
Edwin Tivey (1866-1947) – Soldier & Stockbroker
Samuel St John Topp (1850-1902) – Barrister
William Arthur Trenwith (1846-1925) – Senator, Trade Unionist, Labour Renegade & Bootmaker
George Henry Stevens ‘Harry’ Trott (1866-1917) – Cricketer
Albert Lee Tucker (1914-99) – Artist
Eric William Tulloch (1883-1926) – Soldier, Brewer & Murder Victim
Diedrich Ueckerman (1864-1935) – Head Gardener
Howard Vernon (1848-1921) – Singer & Comedian
Henry Kennedy McGill Walker (1872-1925) – Headmaster
George Arthur Walstab (1834-1909) – Writer & Journalist
John Boyd Watson (1862-1911) – Mining Investor
Thomas Greenlees Watson (1859-1912) – Parliamentary Official
Charles Webb (1821-98) – Architect
John Langley Webb (1866-1951) – Company Director
Clarence Alfred Weber (1882-1930) – Athlete & Physical Culturist
Theyre à Beckett Weigall (1860-1926) – Judge & Barrister
Hugo Wertheim (1854-1919) – Merchant & Manufacturer
Rupert Carl ‘Sos’ Wertheim (1893-1933) – Soldier, Sportsman & Stockbroker
Henry Norman Burgess Wettenhall (1915-2000) – Paediatrician, Ornithologist & Conservationist
Marcus Edwy Wettenhall (1876-1951) – Politician & Farmer
Roland Ravenscroft Wettenhall (1882-1965) – Dermatologist, Historian & Soldier
Charles Henry Wickens (1872-1939) – Statistician & Actuary
Sir William Daniel Campbell Williams (1856-1919) – Surgeon & Soldier
Norman Wilson (1849-1924) – Racing Identity & Pastoralist
William Irving Winter-Irving (1840-1901) – Pastoralist, Politician & Councillor