Clifton Street Cemetery,

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, holds the graves of a number of Belfast's most distinguished figures. The cemetery, whose entrance is at Henry Place in Belfast, is cared for by Belfast City Council and can only be accessed by prior arrangement with council officials. The cemetery contains the graves of members of the

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and social reformers as well as industrialists. There are also approximately 8,000 people buried in the cemetery's poor ground. The cemetery contains one war grave burial registered by the

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– that of Major William Basil Ewart (late Royal Irish Rifles) who died in 1920.
CWGC Debt of Honour Register. He was accepted for belated commemoration by the CWGC in 2011, it being established he died of illness contracted serving in the

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Our Heroes In Memoriam

Notable interments

* Henry Joy McCracken (United Irishman) * Mary Ann McCracken (United Irishwoman and social reformer) * William Drennan (founder of United Irishmen) * William Steel Dickson (United Irishman) * Thomas McCabe (United Irishman) *

Francis Dalzell Finlay Francis Dalzell Finlay (12 July 1793 – 10 September 1857) was an Irish journalist. Finlay was the son of John Finlay, tenant farmer, of Newtownards, County Down, by his wife, Jane Dalzell, was born 12 July 1793 at Newtownards, and began life a ...

(founder of the

Northern Whig The ''Northern Whig'' (from 1919 the ''Northern Whig and Belfast Post'') was a daily regional newspaper in Ireland which was first published in 1824 in Belfast Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ir ...

newspaper) *

Alexander Henry Haliday Alexander Henry Haliday (1806–1870, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday, Alexis Heinrich Haliday, or simply Haliday) was an Ireland, Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Thysanoptera, but wor ...

, physician and politician

References

External links

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The Clifton Street Cemetery – culturenorthernireland.org
* {{Coord, 54.6079, -5.9353, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Cemeteries in Belfast Belfast City Council Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Northern Ireland