List of burials at Southern Cemetery, Manchester

This list of burials at Southern Cemetery, Manchester covers notable people who have been interred at the municipal burial ground in Manchester, North West England.

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Notable burials at Southern Cemetery, Manchester

Burials

	Name	Dates	Info	Section
	Daniel Adamson	1820–1890	English engineer and builder of the Manchester Ship Canal	Centre A39 (CE)[1][2]
	Flight Com. Sir John W. Alcock	1892–1919	RAF officer, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight	Centre - G (CE)[3][2][4]
	Philip James Baybutt	1844–1907	Union Army soldier in the American Civil War	H2085 (CE)[5][6][7][2]
	Maud Boyd	1867–1929	English actress and singer Memorial is broken and inscription is partly submerged	D641 (RC)[8]
	Sir Matt Busby	1909–1994	Manager of Manchester United FC	G997 (RC)[9][2]
	Jerome Caminada	1844–1914	Policeman and Manchester's first CID superintendent.	H1742 (RC)[10][2]
	John Cassidy	1860–1939	Irish sculptor and painter	I800 (RC)[11][12][2]
	John Henry Davies	1864–1927	Beer brewer and founder of Manchester United FC	A (NC)[13]
	Lesley Ann Downey	1954-1964	Victim of the Moors murders
	Edward Evans	1948-1965	Victim of the Moors murders
	Rob Gretton	1953–1999	Music manager of Joy Division and New Order and a director of Factory Records	G278 (RC)[14][2]
	Leopold Hartley Grindon	1818–1904	English educator and botanist	B899 (CE)[15]
	Martin Hannett	1948–1991	Guitarist, record producer, and a director of Factory Records	FF713 (RC)[16][17]
	Major Howard Harker	1891–1919	British World War I flying ace and recipient of the Military Cross	D84 (NC)[18]
	Frank Johnson (real name Frank Williamson)	1928-1970	English boxer and British lightweight and welterweight champion	AA 2925(CE)?[19][2]
	Len Johnson	1902–1974	Boxer and civil rights campaigner	EE740 (CE)[20]
	Henry Kelly VC	1887–1960	WWI and WWII soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross	I372 (RC)[21][2]
	Marcel King	1957–1995	English singer with the Soul music band Sweet Sensation	F1398 (RC)[22]
	L. S. Lowry	1887–1976	Painter of industrial scenes in Lancashire	C772 (CE)[23][2]
	John Makeague	d.1919	Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester 1918-19	G964 (CE)[24]
	Sir Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples of Wallasey	1907–1978	Politician who served as Postmaster General and Minister of Transport	G898 (CE)[25][26][2]
	Billy Meredith	1874–1958	Footballer for both Manchester City FC and Manchester United FC	Y760 (CE)[27][28][2]
	Sergeant Major Joseph Pardoe	1820-1889	Heavy Brigade Officer at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War	L 1691 (CE)[29][2]
	Henry Patteson	1835–1887	Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester 1879-80
	Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska	1891–1945	Polish poet and playwright	I2182 (RC)[30][2]
	Sir Robert Peacock	1859-1926	Chief constable of Manchester City Police 1898-1926	D 1133 (NC) [2][31]
	Wilfred Pickles	1904–1978	Film actor and BBC Radio presenter.	I1012 (RC)[32][2]
	John Prettyjohns VC	1823–1887	Royal Marine in the Crimean War and recipient of the Victoria Cross	L642 (CE)[33][2]
	Sir Samuel Walter Royse	1850–1916	Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester 1911-13
	John Rylands Enriquetta Augustina Rylands	1801–1888	Entrepreneur and philanthropist husband and wife behind the John Rylands Library	E 201/2 (NC)[34][2][4]
	Joseph Sunlight	1889– 1978	Belarusian/ English architect and Liberal politician	DD9 (J)[35][36]
	Dr Henry Watson	1846-1911	Composer and RNCM professor of music	B 297 (CE)[2][37]
	Winifred Wilding and David Wilding	d.1957	Mother and infant son killed in their house in the 1957 Wythenshawe plane crash	K 286 (RC)[38][39]
	Tony Wilson	1950–2007	Broadcaster, impresario and a director of Factory Records	B118 (NC) [40][41][42][2]
	Olive Zorian	1916–1965	classical violinist and founder of the Zorian String Quartet	D557 (NC) [43]

Key: CE=Church of England RC=Roman Catholic NC=Nonconformist J=Jewish

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burials at Southern Cemetery, Manchester and Graves at Southern Cemetery, Manchester.

• "Southern Cemetery". www.manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
• A Tour of Manchester's Southern Cemetery playlist on YouTube

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