Who is Who

The Brighton General Cemetery is the final resting place of 4 V.C. Recipients, well known and not so well known people these include:

Sir Thomas Bent – Premier of Victoria [CE D Grave 132]

Theodore Penleigh Boyd – Artist [CE P Grave 46]

Francis Thomas Dean Carrington – Journalist, Political Cartoonist and Illustrator [Independent J Grave 83]

Florence Edsall – WW1 Nurse [CE ZA Grave 1722]

John Hare Furphy – Blacksmith Merchant [Meth A Graves 66 & 68]

James & William Lees – Convicts and Market Gardeners [CE D 29]

Caroline Lynch – Almanac/Directory Maker, Feminist and Patron of the Arts [RC N Grave 4]

Sir Frederick McCoy – Academic, Museum Administrator, Palaeontologist [CE A Graves 133 & 134]

Marjory Kathleen Meagher – Murder Victim [Pres J Grave 211A]

Sir John Monash – Soldier and Administrator [Jewish F Grave 20]

Charles Alfred Ogg – Architect [CE Y 191 192]

Walter Peeler – Soldier and Victoria Cross recipient [Lawn H Plaque 36]

Joseph Leslie Theodore ‘Squizzy’ Taylor – Larrikin Crook [CE ZA Grave 1894]

William Weatherley – Miner and Grazier [Pres H Graves 110 111 12]