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*Cemetery Trail Leaflet   *Hastings Crematorium

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"the grave's a fine and private place…" exploring Hastings Cemetery

Why not rest, relax and reflect awhile, sitting on the OHPS / FoHC seat. locatedon EL, and take in the magnificent view.

• To find information you can use the GoogleIsearch above, or there is an alphabetical index to the people on the website under the heading People - Stories Index A - Z [https://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/storiesaz.html]

  All names are included in this index

An Eclecticc Selection of People in Our Cemetery

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• Boucher, Thomas - “a many sided local celebrity” greengrocer, theatrical agent, actor, fireman,swimmer, stuntman………
• The Bray Family:Allfrey, Charles Henry & Emily Malden - doctor, lived locally; while practising in Kent signed Charles Darwin's death certificate.
• Anson, Sir Archibald Edward Harbord & Isabelle Jane - last Lieutenant Governor of Penang, author (autobiography) resident and officer holder in Hastings for many years.
• Armitage, Stephen - founder of Icilma Cosmetics Company
• Ball, Richard & Family - Captain of the New Albertine pleasure yacht for many years
• Banks, John - a schoolmaster and so much more, author of a book on smuggling, son of a receiver, interests in astronomy, physics, chemistry, maths, meteorology.  A local benefactor
• Beasley, Charles & Family - brewing family from Kent, one son and his wife devel
• Brooks, William Alfred - A Church Lads’ Brigade funeral;  he was for five years a member of Blacklands Choir, and a sergeant in the Church Lads’ Brigade.
• Bumstead, John Henry, son John Henry, and wife Ellen https://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/bumsteadjh.html - John was drowned off Great Yarmouth in October 1881; their son died in an accident in 1891, aged 14 years.; Ellen was later the wife of Edward F. Hulbert
• Bumstead, Stephen J - local, serving under the name Barnes, with the 5th Royal Sussex, died aged 16. WW1- 1914
• Cayley Family - Charles Bagot Cayley was a leading figure in the London Philological Society, a very able linguist and a friend of the Rosettis.  He and Christina fell in love but didn’t marry because of religious differences
• Chesney, Isabel - murdered by her husband, buried with her aunt and Mother
• Cobb, Alf, and his second wife Mary - both hawkers in Hastings; “Some of the jiggery-pokery uncovered by Cobb went into Robert Tressell’s book and I’m sure Cobb’s uncompromising, sardonic and fearless style helped to fire him to speak his mind.” [Ball 123]
• Cousins, Henry -  historian of Hastings, and for many years one of its most prominent townsmen, author of “Hastings of bygone days - and the present”
• Coussens, Joseph David - The Story of “RX Boy Billie 61” and those lost with her
• Cox, Major-General William  - brief account of the first monument in the Cemetery.
• de Wesselow, Francis Guillemard Simpkinson - naval officer, served  under Joseph Kay's nephew;  renowned 'Tasmanian' artist; nephew of Sir John Franklin's wife, Jane. Married locally.  Friend of Samuel Prout's nephew, and of JMW Turner
• Dunn, Thomas Henry & his son, Harry - Tracing the occupants of this broken gravestone revealed several sad stories.
• Elworthy, Thomas, Louisa & family - councillor, engraver, draughtsman. Architect of many of the churches in Hastings & St. Leonards.  Louisa was a Hastings girl and their childtren contributed to life in St Leonards.
• Furniss, Harry - cartoonist, illustrator, traveller, writer, lecturer and pioneer animator. Active locally
• Gardiner, Gerald Austin - Lord Chancellor
• Gardner, William  - American, inventor of the Gardner Gun
• Gibbons, Sir Sills John 1809-1876 - Lord Mayor of London
• Giffard, Lucy Sophia Ada - The middle daughter in a family of three, born at Chillington Hall, in Staffordshire, she seems to have spent much of her life in care in Hastings and surroundings.
• Ginner, Will & Anne - coal merchant, owner of the Pelican, probably the most famous collier on Hastings Beach.  He was a JP and Mayor in 1854, 1858 and 1862
• Glenister, William Montagu - “Father of the Hastings Police Force”; Founder of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Inventor - Glenister-Merryweather Fire-fighting Tricycle
• Goldberg, Rev. John Benjamin & Isabella - a rabbi who converted to Christianity and became a missionary  
• Guidici, Paolo Emiliani = Italian man of letters; Artist & engraver, Professor of Aesthetics in Florence, Member of Italian Parliament. His most famous work remains the History of Italian literature, a valuable document of romantic criticism prior to De Sanctis. Died at Glenmoor, Silverhill Park
• Hilder, William Roland - Engineer of the Cyril & Lillin Bishop, killed in the Swan Inn Bombing.
• Arthur Foord Hughes - son of Arthur Hughes, painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur junior was a painter in the same mould and lived for many years in the area.
• Kapadia, Zoe & Ardeshir  - Zoe came to stay with her daughter in Hastings when she became ill, and died here.  Her husband, a barrister and councillor for Ilford, visited the grave every weekend, and asked that his ashes should be buried in the same grave.
• Langham, James George  & Family - Local Solicitor; lived in the High Street
• Langton, Charlotte nee Wedgwood – Charles Darwin's sister-in-law; artist
• Deeping, Dr. George & wife Marion - parents of author Warwick Deeping.  Lived at “Oaklands”, top of St Helen’s Park Road
• Lewns, Carleton James - Auctioneer, Bailiff etc. Member of the Fire Brigade; vocalist.
• The Lutwidge Family - local church stalwarts; Lewis Carroll’s relations
• Miroy, Ivy Gwendoline - killed by enemy action in London, this is something of a mystery.
• Makalua, Matthew M (Dr), MRCS, LRCP & Annie Clementine First ethnic Hawaiian to qualify as a doctor
• Manley, William Henry, Naomi & William Robert - a local family with a lovely memorial stone, whose story turns out to be more complicated than first thought
• Marsden, Dr. James Loftus & Rosa - Water cure doctor (from Malvern) and daughter
• Mastin Family - owners of Mastins, the once famous Breeds Place department store
• Menzies "Lady"Mary Anne nee Bonar - murdered with her daughter, by her son-in-law
• Meech, Mark, Mary & Willie; - lived locally - Meech, William Samuel - KIA WW, 1916 /
• Naik, Krishnaswami  - of Manjarabad.  A descendent of the chiefs of Balam in Mysore
• Narbeth, John Harper  British naval architect designed the 1906 HMS Dreadnought and HMS Flat Iron - a seaplane recovery vessel
• Newton, Rev. F E, of St Matthew’s Church, St Leonards, Ellen and their son Frances G, an architect & archaeologist.  Ellen was an artist, a church worker and founded the Poor Children's Convalescent Home
• Noakes, Sarah & Thomas - he was a postman; they died within to days of each other and were buried together on the same day.  The grave is a little overgrown.
• Phillips, Henry & Albert (and their wives) - members of a local notable cricketing family
• Philpot Family - buried in AV H03, AV I03 and AV K01. -  PHILPOT’S. Drapers, at no’s 37 - 38 Marina, St Leonards opened as a ‘lace and cap’ shop in 1836, and closed in 1986 by which time their address was 37 - 40 Marine Court.
• Philpot Family - buried in AV H03, AV I03 and AV K01. -  PHILPOT’S. Drapers, at no’s 37 - 38 Marina, St Leonards opened as a ‘lace and cap’ shop in 1836, and closed in 1986 by which time their address was 37 - 40 Marine Court.
• Ransford, Annie Cash - for 14 years Matron of  the Buchanan Hospital, died in a road accident.
• Ransom, Charlotte - Servant
• Ransom, William -  founder and first editor of the Hastings and St Leonards News; lifelong friend of Barbara Bodichon.
• Robins, T E & Family - came to Hastings in 1919, after many years in India having retired as Harbour Master of Calcutta [now Kolkata].  Died in India in 1925.  The eldest daughter, Elsie, was born in Hastings in Calcutta, and died in Hastings, England.
• Sherer, Major General Joseph Ford, Charlotte Louisa, and two of their children - Served in India for many year, the “father” of polo, his wife was one of the children of Mary Goldney.
• Shrewsbury Family - of Alderton & Shrewsbury, ironmongers, iron founders, smiths, bell-hangers, gas fitters, braziers, tinplate workers, stove & range manufacturers & bar iron merchants, 69 & 70  George Street, & 1B,  Robertson Street
• Woods, George, - amateur photographer of Hastings and environs, married secondly to Ethel Rant, daughter of George & Sabrina
• Zamoyska, Maria - died aged one, prominent Polish family, memorial disappeared

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