St John’s Cemetery, Margate is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a bu ...

located in

Margate Margate is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. The town has been a significant m ...

, Kent in

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. The cemetery dates back to 1856

History

The grave of Samuel Courtauld in Margate Cemetery

The grave of John Sanger in Margate Cemetery, Kent

The Surf Boat Memorial is a Grade II listed building in Margate Cemetery.

Notable burials

John Allen (RAF officer) John Allen, (3 July 1916 – 24 July 1940) was a British flying ace who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was credited with having shot down at least eight aircraft. Born in the British East Africa Prote ...

, flying ace of the Second World War * Pamela Barton, English amateur golfer * Samuel Courtauld, art collector *

Thomas Selby Egan Thomas Selby Egan (25 December 1814 – 11 May 1893) was a coxswain, a rowing coach, and a German scholar. As a coxswain for Cambridge University, he coxed the first Cambridge boat to win The Boat Race. Egan was born in London, the son ...

, coxswain and rowing coach *

Leslie Fuller Leslie Fuller (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor. Early life Albert Leslie Fuller was born in 1888 at 14 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London.Some sources wrongly give his birthplace as Margate, as he had a lifelo ...

, comic actor *

Richard Henry Horne Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was an English poet and critic most famous for his poem ''Orion''. Early life Horne was born at Edmonton, London, son of James Horne, a quarter-master in th ...

, poet * Sir

William Quiller Orchardson Sir William Quiller Orchardson (27 March 1832 – 13 April 1910) was a noted Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75. Early years Orchardson was born in Edinburgh, ...

, Scottish portraitist - memorial *

Lord George Sanger 'Lord' George Sanger (23 December 1825 – 28 November 1911) was an English showman and circus proprietor. Born to a showman father, he grew up working in travelling peep shows. He successfully ran shows and circuses throughout much of the ni ...

, English circus proprietor *

John Sanger John Sanger (1816 – 22 August 1889) was an English circus proprietor. Biography He was born at Chew Magna, Somerset, in 1816, the son of an old sailor who had turned showman. In 1845 he started with his brother George Sanger a conjuring exh ...

, English circus proprietor * Victoria Sanger Freeman, "the Queen of the Elephants"

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 53 Commonwealth service personnel (two unidentified) of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

which are scattered throughout the cemetery, and of 83 (three unidentified) from

World War Two World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, in addition to 18 German airmen (one unidentified) who are buried with 50 of the British casualties in a war graves plot in Section 50. A number of dead from the latter war were from the Dunkirk evacuations.Margate Cemetery
CWGC Cemetery Report.

References

External links

Margate Cemetery
- Billion Graves {{Cemeteries in England __NOTOC__ 1856 establishments in England Cemeteries in Kent Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in England